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Heh he eh, totally with you. The following kind of snippets appear a lot in my command line history (for music): youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 <mediaurl

Heh he eh, totally with you. The following kind of snippets appear a lot in my command line history (for music): youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 <mediaurl>

majewsky 6y ago
I have this in my shellrc, so that `youtube-dl` without arguments takes the URL from the clipboard: youtube-dl() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then if [ "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}" != "" ]; then env youtube-dl -f best "$(wl-paste --type text/plain)" else env youtube-dl -f best "$(xsel -b)" fi else env youtube-dl "$@" fi } (Replace "-f best" if you just want audio.)
- Liskni_si 6y ago
  I took this "shell wrapper around youtube-dl" thing a bit further: I have a script that uses youtube-dl to download and enqueue music to mpd. I mainly use it to listen to bandcamp albums that I don't know yet so I can decide whether to buy them or stop listening to them. The script also automatically deletes stuff after a while so I don't accidentally keep listening to albums I haven't bought. Source here if anyone's interested: https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/youtube-dl-mpd https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/youtube-dl-...
lozf 6y ago
Youtube only offer audio in either AAC (in a .m4a container) or Opus formats. Since lossy to lossy transcodes always cause some degradation due to the way perceptual codecs discard data, it's always best to use them as-is without converting. AAC is widely compatible these days and is the broadcast industry (ITU / EBU) standard for distribution of end-user audio, the default recording format for most consumer and pro-sumer equipment, and also what Youtube's upload giudelines suggest. Therefore it's better just to get the `-f140 -x` for maximum compatibility, unless you know you can play the Opus audio and have reason to believe the upload was higher quality.

Heh he eh, totally with you. The following kind of snippets appear a lot in my command line history (for music): youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 <mediaurl>

majewsky 6y ago

I have this in my shellrc, so that `youtube-dl` without arguments takes the URL from the clipboard: youtube-dl() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then if [ "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}" != "" ]; then env youtube-dl -f best "$(wl-paste --type text/plain)" else env youtube-dl -f best "$(xsel -b)" fi else env youtube-dl "$@" fi } (Replace "-f best" if you just want audio.)

Liskni_si 6y ago
I took this "shell wrapper around youtube-dl" thing a bit further: I have a script that uses youtube-dl to download and enqueue music to mpd. I mainly use it to listen to bandcamp albums that I don't know yet so I can decide whether to buy them or stop listening to them. The script also automatically deletes stuff after a while so I don't accidentally keep listening to albums I haven't bought. Source here if anyone's interested: https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/youtube-dl-mpd https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/youtube-dl-...

lozf 6y ago

Youtube only offer audio in either AAC (in a .m4a container) or Opus formats. Since lossy to lossy transcodes always cause some degradation due to the way perceptual codecs discard data, it's always best to use them as-is without converting. AAC is widely compatible these days and is the broadcast industry (ITU / EBU) standard for distribution of end-user audio, the default recording format for most consumer and pro-sumer equipment, and also what Youtube's upload giudelines suggest. Therefore it's better just to get the `-f140 -x` for maximum compatibility, unless you know you can play the Opus audio and have reason to believe the upload was higher quality.