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Re: Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio

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yt-audio has added features like custom CLI arguments (users can setup their own CLI arguments to manage playlists/audios), save each audio/playlist to a separate directory, added option to keep track of downloaded titles without archive file, and more ...

Re: Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio

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youtube-dl is the only thing that makes the modern web actually usable.

I ended up writing a bot that runs on a docker scheduled task and looks at trello. I can drop a youtube link on the board and it will grab the audio.

Great for when I hear a song somewhere that I want to add to my phone later.

Re: Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio

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YouTube-dl demolishes 100 pain points of using the modern web This wrapper gets rid of the only pain point in using YouTube-dl which was having to google every time you wanted just the audio. Great work

Off the top of my head, isnt that just the -x flag?

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YouTube-dl demolishes 100 pain points of using the modern web This wrapper gets rid of the only pain point in using YouTube-dl which was having to google every time you wanted just the audio. Great work

Thank you

Re: Show HN: YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio

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post #5

YouTube-dl demolishes 100 pain points of using the modern web This wrapper gets rid of the only pain point in using YouTube-dl which was having to google every time you wanted just the audio. Great work

Off the top of my head, isnt that just the -x flag?

It's a bit more than that. Eg: One can configure their own CLI arguments to keep track of particular playlist(s).

$ yt-audio --your-arg1 --your-arg2

This will sync playlist/audios configured against these arguments.

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post #5

YouTube-dl demolishes 100 pain points of using the modern web This wrapper gets rid of the only pain point in using YouTube-dl which was having to google every time you wanted just the audio. Great work

Off the top of my head, isnt that just the -x flag?

I have a file under ~/bin called youtube-mp3 which has this one-liner:

    exec $HOME/d/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -t -x --audio-format=mp3 "$@"
(Edit: I'm sure this script does a lot more, but making ytdl download only the audio is fairly simple. Note the above command converts the file to mp3 which some people may not want to do because it's lossy.)
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