Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription
“Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I’m so excited! Let’s celebrate with them!” - nobody
So what pisses me off in these cases is this: they didn’t contribute with the data. They’re a convenient aggregator, I give them that, but the data came from third parties. If you want to start charging for convenient access to the data you should at least make all data before you started charging available in a bulk download for free.
Don’t call yourself open ffs
openAI anyone?
ClosedAI
So… They’re following the Reddit business model? Let’s see how that works out.
They aren’t charging for convenient access to the data though, they are charging for bulk access. The limitations of the new API should not impact people casually pulling in subtitles with VLC when they watch a movie, which is the purpose the API was intended to fulfill.
You just need to move to the new API, which is free, the old one is still available temporarily if you pay
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Yarr, this be objectionable, but inconsequential.
Unless you’re deaf or hard of hearing.
In which case the ADA provides extensive coverage that demands reasonable accommodations. Hence why reddit backtracked and allowed a few apps free API access (eg RedReader, which is very clunky but still works).
ADA… extensive coverage? I see you haven’t ever tried to get a reasonable accommodation.
Extensive =/= perfect. At least there’s a chance of getting reasonable accommodation. With sex discrimination there’s almost no hope outside of employment.
Also I’m sure you’re speaking with a dollop of hyberbole and overlooking a bunch of accommodation provided up front.
I mean to be realistic, Whisper (the audio to text AI ) linked with chatGPT can subtitle anything in real time, translated in any language, in very high quality…
You just need a GPU running in realtime along side your video playback to analyse what is being played instead of a single text file with timecodes.
Progress!
Could probably do it with something like a Google coral. You can get one for $60 these days. A lot cheaper than a GPU and less power hungry too.
Seems like a huge waste of electricity
Does this have a plugin or something for Plex?
Kodi would be question.
Asking the important questions here
Wait… “Ad-Free Subtitles”? I have never even used or heard of this service, but that just feels like an “insult to injury” or “annoy you into paying” abuse? Am I wrong?
Please tell me that this is not some auto-subtitling service that is going to cause ads to be inserted into the subtitles for other ads or something? Like, how do ads in subtitles even work?
They add one ad at the beginning like “visit example.com” inside the subtitle file
But luckily there aren’t many companies that want to be associated with piracy* so in most cases it’s blank a generic “advertise here contact mail@example.com”
I remember only a campaign that lasted over a year, a service that promotes legal streaming services, filmamo.it
* note: why I said “associated with piracy”: those files are going to be used with pirated video files and in most cases are pirated too as they’ve been extracted from a DVD or a streaming service without a license from the copyright holders. Once I saw a guide “how to use external subs with Netflix” for the rare edge cases where the viewer is watching a content via VPN and his sub language is missing, but those are very rare. Not to mention that for MPAA there’s no difference between just torrenting a movie or paying a subscription to Netflix in another country via VPN: for them is all piracy and they want to stop both.
Fucking MPAA. Quite possibly the most corrupt pile of dickheads to ever assemble. They blatantly ignored their own raring guidelines for decades until they decided they got tired of being called out on it and changed them to be so vague that they would he allowed to justify any rating, then started accepting “donations” from production companies to get the ratings they wanted.
It’s not auto-subtitling, I checked. But that is a different thing they made (without the ad inserting part). It’s at https://ai.opensubtitles.com/
Have you even read the email? It’s still free
For like a month. Then you need to be important and pay them.
Edit: for the current/legacy API. The new API is free, but limited.
Yeah, but the limit seems to be more than appropriate for most people anyway, so I think their pricing model is pretty reasonable
It’s also $12 a year ($15 normally).
It’s a small price to pay to ensure everything on your Plex server has subtitles. Subtitling stuff and hosting it isn’t free.
Exactly. I’m all for hating on subscriptions, but this is more than a fair price. Just eat at home instead of buying out for one day a year and it pays for it lol
Ok but (and correct me if I’m wrong) but aren’t the subtitles crowd sourced? So they are taking user content and then charging for it.
Anger is a form of excitement.
It’s $15/year. Not exactly breaking the bank.
Lol gotta pay for “adfree subtitles”
“Luke, I am [over the moon for these Sobeys™️ rebates!]”
Reminds me of The Truman Show
What really caught my attention was OpenSubtitles going from a .org to a .com domain.
So it’s a regular business now?
They should rename the site to PaywalledSubtitles.
well it has been deprecated for a few years, and they’re basically asking you to play for continued support.
they have a new REST api, but you still need the old one, pay up because otherwise there’s no motivation to keep it around.Since Twitter~>X the internet enshitification has accelerated so much…
This isn’t enshittification, they deprecated the api a long time ago, now they have a shiny new one that’s free. You need to switch over or pay up. API changing isn’t something unique in programming.
This happens like two weeks after I finally install the opensubs vlc plugin.
So it’s your fault.
This kind of coincidence happens a lot more than it should to me so I am probably afflicted by a very powerful curse.
A proper REST API sounds like exciting news to me, and I’m sure anyone who needs to interact with their APIs…
