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Music site free-mp3-download has shut down (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I often used this site to download flac songs that I was unable to find on SLSK or other torrents. Is there an alternative to this site that anyone knows of. It will be missed.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:

-x, --extract-audio                               Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and
                                                  ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT                             Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently
                                                  supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus,
                                                  vorbis, wav). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax
                                                  as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY                           Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with
                                                  -x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
                                                  specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)

You might have to use a tool to re-do the tags, but that's pretty easy to do. Edit: also want to point out that yt-dlp also works with a number of other sites besides Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

Youtube Audio sounds like crap tho

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is a method I use regularly but I don't think you're going to obtain any lossless content from youtube.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Usually Opus 160kbps... re-encoded from who knows what how many times.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Youtube audio quality is such crap though. Whenever I try pirating music via youtube there's never a bass channel. I have a good stereo system in my car so that's not acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I get that, but if it's the only place something exists, it might be your only option and I was just tossing it out there so people knew it was available.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I suggest trying out this YouTube Music app. You can install a plugin from the app that will use yt-dlp and download from YouTube Music which gets you slightly better audio quality at 256kbps vs downloading from a YouTube video.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's good to know how to rip the opus without reencoding from YouTube but please don't use this as your primary source of music