I read somewhere that it is possible to rip youtube videos (music only) without the need for converting it into an mp3 as such.
The online conversion process (naturally) results in loss of quality, and (apparently) it is possible to preserve the original video’s audio quality via a direct rip. If so, how would it be done and what format would it be in anyway?
thanks
This is what I use for my personal archive:
yt-dlp -f bestaudio/best --extract-audio --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --recode opus --audio-quality 0
It does recode to
opus
but since thebestaudio
is usually in that format already, you don’t need it most of the time. You can skip the--recode opus
part if you want to. I keep it because I like having a “uniform” collection. You can probably change thebestaudio/best
part to simplybestaudio
without losing much as well.I dunno about the qualilty but I do
yt-dlp -x
and it downloads and extracts just the audio portion.deleted by creator
The fork yt-dlp already downloads in the highest quality.
The problem is that, that’s (sometimes?) webm format…
yt-dlp has the
-F
parameter to list the available stream formats. (uppercase F to list, lowercase f to select)I use
-f 251
to download the opus audio stream, and afterwards useffmpeg -i file -c copy file.opus
to copy the opus audio stream in an opus file format file (codeccopy
so without encoding losses).I use this app for it. Even adds the correct artist, title, album and such to the file aswell. I tried several similar apps but this was by far the best.
+1 for MediaHuman, if you’re wanting a GUI. Super simple and powerful. It’s paid software but there are cracks around.
It’s not paid though?
I think the YouTube Downloader is paid and they might be getting it confused.
Oh I’m four days late but yes. The YouTube downloader also downloads audio, I didn’t realize they had a separate program that only downloads audio. Weird.