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I wish I started doing similar thing way earlier, because now I can't refer to a lot of content that vanished from the net for a number of reasons (creators get
by vthriller 7y ago
I wish I started doing similar thing way earlier, because now I can't refer to a lot of content that vanished from the net for a number of reasons (creators getting bored, flagged out from youtube by bots that random haters set up, bogus copyright claims from impostors that upload all sorts of stolen things into contentid in order to create a quick buck, UMG taking down videos from music theory channels despite it obviously falling under the Fair Use and so on)
- rwmj 7y agoFor music on youtube, this trivial ytdl wrapper is essential: $ cat bin/youtube-mp3 #!/bin/bash - exec $HOME/d/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -t -x --audio-format=mp3 "$@" Saved to my Squeezebox library, it's available to play forever.
- qplex 7y agoDoesn't the audio quality take a hit when you transcode to MP3 though?
- rwmj 7y agoPossibly, but on the flip side neither my car nor my first-gen SLIMP3 can play other formats natively.
- asveikau 7y agoYouTube audio is usually aac. Sometimes I have saved audio as an .aac file without re-encoding. (Not using the same scripts, what I have done typically is get the mp4 and do: ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -acodec copy foo.aac) Any audio player worth its salt should play .aac files. I think for the most common types [low-complexity] the patents are expired. (Curious if somebody has one that doesn't.)
- rhizome 7y agoProbably, but it's already down to ~150kb by the time you download it.