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Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Post by chronogram »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #46
qwerty456127 wrote: post #27

Who needs MP3 in 2024? Retrocomputing does! So a really lightweight YouTube client capable of running on Windows 95 and/or 486-class machines producing MP3 output would make a really great sense. Can this? For everyone else there are AAC and OPUS.

I still use an iPod with Rockbox firmware as my everyday music player so I also still need mp3s :3

All iPods supported AAC and I imagine alternative firmware adds opus support, so you can just grab the original audio files from YouTube instead of converting them to MP3.

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Post by littlestymaar »

38 wrote: post #37
geor9e wrote: post #11

Personally I just use a bookmarklet. Nothing to install, no website to visit. Just a local bookmark that shows the list of the video/audio file direct links. https://github.com/minanagehsalalma/Youtube-Downloader-Bookm... ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minanagehsalalma/Youtube-D... )

Doesn't work with DASH

Can't you still work around DASH by changing your user agent, claiming that you are running Safari? (It used to be the case, but I haven't been in the streaming industry for years now so it may be obsolete)

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Post by tempaccount1234 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #27

Who needs MP3 in 2024? Retrocomputing does! So a really lightweight YouTube client capable of running on Windows 95 and/or 486-class machines producing MP3 output would make a really great sense. Can this? For everyone else there are AAC and OPUS.

As long as there’s no mp3directcut https://mpesch3.de/) clone for Opus, the format lacks non-destructive fast editing. And while it can cut and edit raw aac, it works a lot better with mp3.

Non destructive editing is more important with the new formats, because they compress to smaller files and cause greater problems when you unpack and recompress them.

This is why mp3 still is a good format for 2024.

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Post by wodenokoto »

robertclaus wrote: post #32

I remember using online tools for this a decade ago. I'm surprised to see a new project for it. I wonder if there's a specific use-case the author needed it for or if this was just for fun.

Have you tried using online tools for this a _week_ ago?

Youtube has been pretty good at fighting the online tools, meanwhile, spammers have been pretty good at filling search results with non-tools full of ads.

I've found it difficult to do the occasional drive-by download, because none of the old tools (kickyouotube, etc) that I remember the name of work or exists, and googling for online services returns junk.

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Post by Repulsion9513 »

brnt wrote: post #47
Repulsion9513 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remux into ogg which still supports Opus but seemed to have wider player support. Great way to get tracks that don't seem to be available anywhere other than streaming.

.opus _is_ an Ogg container, just with another filename.

Hmm, maybe whatever I was running into problems with just doesn't recognize the extension then. Sadly I don't remember what it was. Coulda been Plex, which wouldn't surprise me.

Re: Open Source YouTube to MP3 Downloader

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Post by brnt »

Repulsion9513 wrote: post #58
brnt wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.opus _is_ an Ogg container, just with another filename.

Hmm, maybe whatever I was running into problems with just doesn't recognize the extension then. Sadly I don't remember what it was. Coulda been Plex, which wouldn't surprise me.

A lazy indexer could skip just based on filename, and a well implemented and current (although... Opus is a decade old now?) player would properly detect the Opus stream inside the .ogg file and decode properly.
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