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Is it possible to rip audio from youtube without loss of quality or online conversions? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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 the bestaudio 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 the bestaudio/best part to simply bestaudio without losing much as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it skip the recode completely if the format is already opus?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yes, it does. It just repackages it from .m4a to .opus without re-encoding the actual audio stream.