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Is it possible to rip audio from youtube without loss of quality or online conversions?
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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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if you use yt-dlp or youtube-dl's
-Fflag 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.The fork yt-dlp already downloads in the highest quality.
The problem is that, that's (sometimes?) webm format...
WARNING: webm doesn't support embedding a thumbnail, mkv will be used
Embed thumbnails, you'll never see a webm again.
I resorted to a shitty script that gets the most m4a video quality using grep and awk.
Is the thumbnail embedding a yt-dlp feature?
yes but i think it's also present in youtube-dl
--embed-thumbnailYour intended playback device impacts which format you'll want. Or maybe I'm just fussy, I dunno.