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Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

#22

Post by entropie »

I use a telgram bot (controlled by node-red) that sends the URLs to a script [1] that uses a FIFO to download them one by one via yt-dlp. If the sender ID is from my mum, only the audio track is saved and made available to her via jellyfin. It has been working almost too well for 2 years. She has downloaded almost 1TB of audiobooks (all from youtube).

1: https://gist.github.com/entropie/d265e94136b9777cc6b3190189b...

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

#23

Post by perfmode »

entropie wrote: post #22

I use a telgram bot (controlled by node-red) that sends the URLs to a script [1] that uses a FIFO to download them one by one via yt-dlp. If the sender ID is from my mum, only the audio track is saved and made available to her via jellyfin. It has been working almost too well for 2 years. She has downloaded almost 1TB of audiobooks (all from youtube). 1: https://gist.github.com/entropie/d265e94136b9777cc6b3190189b...

elegant. how is the written?

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Post by btown »

This seems to be a pretty straightforward GUI wrapper around https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode and https://github.com/AydinAdn/MediaToolkit (see https://github.com/PackJC/YoutubeToMP3/blob/main/Form1.cs). Note the (admirable but non-OSI) terms of the former library if using any outputs from this software.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp is a well-maintained public domain alternative.

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

#28

Post by josephcsible »

btown wrote: post #25

This seems to be a pretty straightforward GUI wrapper around https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode and https://github.com/AydinAdn/MediaToolkit (see https://github.com/PackJC/YoutubeToMP3/blob/main/Form1.cs ). Note the (admirable but non-OSI) terms of the former library if using any outputs from this software. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp is a well-maintained public domain alternative.

Interestingly, while the readme file mentions that crayon license, the license file itself is an unmodified MIT license. I wonder what the legal status of that is.

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

#29

Post by dorkwood »

fallingsquirrel wrote: post #20
metaphor wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why, objectively?

1) MP3 is dated. Modern codecs give better quality at smaller filesizes. 2) Any lossy re-encoding step degrades quality. You'll get the highest quality by saving the stream direct from the server and skipping the re-encode step. Just pass --extract-audio and skip all those other arguments.

Can you give examples of modern codecs which are a better choice?
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