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Why would they not allow audio-only downloads?
by RealStickman_ 5y ago
Why would they not allow audio-only downloads?
- ravenstine 5y agoThis is the main reason why I use NewPipe rather than pay YouTube's ransom. Although I have a high bandwidth plan, I just don't like wasting bandwidth and disk space for video data I'm not actually looking at with my eyes. Most of the time I pop on some intellectual content and listen to it, and the video is often unnecessary. Just give me the damn audio and I'm good. YouTube seems to think this isn't a concern, and maybe it isn't if I forced it to download the 140p version of the video, but that's still a clunky solution. Or maybe the execs think that providing audio downloads lets people "steal" music.
- RealStickman_ 5y agoAfaik using the 144p version would be terrible, as YouTube couples the audio bitrate to the video resolution.