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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you use yt-dlp or youtube-dl's -F flag you can get back a list of available formats. There are typically separately encoded audio tracks for most content on youtube, meaning you can just give it the stream id and get an m4a or webm file with no extra work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fork yt-dlp already downloads in the highest quality.

The problem is that, that's (sometimes?) webm format...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Your intended playback device impacts which format you'll want. Or maybe I'm just fussy, I dunno.