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YouTube-dl demolishes 100 pain points of using the modern web This wrapper gets rid of the only pain point in using YouTube-dl which was having to google every

YouTube-dl demolishes 100 pain points of using the modern web This wrapper gets rid of the only pain point in using YouTube-dl which was having to google every time you wanted just the audio. Great work

jchw 7y ago
Off the top of my head, isnt that just the -x flag?
- pseudoroot 7y ago
  It's a bit more than that. Eg: One can configure their own CLI arguments to keep track of particular playlist(s). $ yt-audio --your-arg1 --your-arg2 This will sync playlist/audios configured against these arguments.
  - jchw 7y ago
    Sorry, no doubt your app does more than -x. I just meant for extracting audio alone.
- rwmj 7y ago
  I have a file under ~/bin called youtube-mp3 which has this one-liner: exec $HOME/d/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -t -x --audio-format=mp3 "$@" (Edit: I'm sure this script does a lot more, but making ytdl download only the audio is fairly simple. Note the above command converts the file to mp3 which some people may not want to do because it's lossy.)
  - krick 7y ago
    What is -t?
    - rwmj 7y ago
      It (used to) cause youtube-dl to name downloaded videos after the title. Apparently it was needed in older versions of youtube-dl but is now ignored.
- alexis_fr 7y ago
  I’m not near a computer but I was persuaded I have used youtube-dl -f mp3 https://.. https://... before.
  - jchw 7y ago
    Well, if you use just -x alone, it will not attempt to get the format you ask for. So you will probably end up with a m4a (mp4 container with just AAC audio) or ogg (vorbis/i think opus?) depending on whether the best quality is encoded in h264, WebM/VP8 or WebM/VP9. Which may not be what you want. OTOH, if you specify a format directly without -x, it may not extract the audio alone. For example if you wanted M4A, you'd specify -x on top of specifying the format explicitly. edit: as krick points out though, it doesn’t seem videos generally have an mp3 format, at least on YouTube.
  - krick 7y ago
    I don't think -f mp3 would ever work, -f is for choosing file format to download. So -f mp3 would work only if there is a source with codename mp3, which I don't think I've ever seen. You may be using -f bestaudio -x or something along the lines of it.
- DonCopal 7y ago
  I also use --audio-quality 0 because it can be between 0 (best) and 9 (worst) and the default is 5.
pseudoroot 7y ago
Thank you
latexr 7y ago
Do you literally google it? Why not make an `alias` once, or `man youtube-dl`, or `youtube-dl --help | grep audio`?
- whywhywhywhy 7y ago
  its not a single command it's an actual ting you have to do manually. you need to check what sources are available then manually input the number for just the audio stream of that specific video

jchw 7y ago

Off the top of my head, isnt that just the -x flag?

pseudoroot 7y ago
It's a bit more than that. Eg: One can configure their own CLI arguments to keep track of particular playlist(s). $ yt-audio --your-arg1 --your-arg2 This will sync playlist/audios configured against these arguments.
- jchw 7y ago
  Sorry, no doubt your app does more than -x. I just meant for extracting audio alone.
rwmj 7y ago
I have a file under ~/bin called youtube-mp3 which has this one-liner: exec $HOME/d/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -t -x --audio-format=mp3 "$@" (Edit: I'm sure this script does a lot more, but making ytdl download only the audio is fairly simple. Note the above command converts the file to mp3 which some people may not want to do because it's lossy.)
- krick 7y ago
  What is -t?
  - rwmj 7y ago
    It (used to) cause youtube-dl to name downloaded videos after the title. Apparently it was needed in older versions of youtube-dl but is now ignored.
alexis_fr 7y ago
I’m not near a computer but I was persuaded I have used youtube-dl -f mp3 https://.. https://... before.
- jchw 7y ago
  Well, if you use just -x alone, it will not attempt to get the format you ask for. So you will probably end up with a m4a (mp4 container with just AAC audio) or ogg (vorbis/i think opus?) depending on whether the best quality is encoded in h264, WebM/VP8 or WebM/VP9. Which may not be what you want. OTOH, if you specify a format directly without -x, it may not extract the audio alone. For example if you wanted M4A, you'd specify -x on top of specifying the format explicitly. edit: as krick points out though, it doesn’t seem videos generally have an mp3 format, at least on YouTube.
- krick 7y ago
  I don't think -f mp3 would ever work, -f is for choosing file format to download. So -f mp3 would work only if there is a source with codename mp3, which I don't think I've ever seen. You may be using -f bestaudio -x or something along the lines of it.
DonCopal 7y ago
I also use --audio-quality 0 because it can be between 0 (best) and 9 (worst) and the default is 5.

pseudoroot 7y ago

Thank you

latexr 7y ago

Do you literally google it? Why not make an `alias` once, or `man youtube-dl`, or `youtube-dl --help | grep audio`?

whywhywhywhy 7y ago
its not a single command it's an actual ting you have to do manually. you need to check what sources are available then manually input the number for just the audio stream of that specific video