Avoid repo, PPA version or pip/pipx so you can upgrade with yt-dlp -U (necessary quite often). So there's no need for -audio-quality 0 or -f bestaudio.Ībout Updates: Download last version of yt-dlp.

Most things are equivalent.Ībout audio quality: From the documentation: 'By default yt-dlp/youtube-dl tries to download the best available quality, i.e., if you want the best quality you don't need to pass any special options, yt-dlp will guess it for you by default.'. Works faster and includes things like -split-chapters. This alias let me easily download any audio with better filenames: $ alias | grep audioĪlias yt-dl-audio='yt-dlp -ignore-errors -output '%(title)s.%(ext)s' -extract-audio -audio-format mp3' Destination: Martin Luther King - I Have a Dream on Aug -HRIF4_WzU1w.m4a Available formats for HRIF4_WzU1w:ġ71 webm audio only DASH webm audio, 48k (worst)ġ40 m4a audio only DASH audio, mp4 192p DASH video

HRIF4_WzU1w: Extracting video information HRIF4_WzU1w: Downloading video info webpage This will list the various download formats available for this url (audio and video). Then, if you already have the video link. Video Downloader youtube-dl Gets Support For Separate Audio And Video YouTube DASH Streamsīasically, download the latest version of youtube-dl from source or from the ppa offered in the link above but not from the Software Center. Unfortunately, the search facility that Maythux asked for here isn't offered. Here is a recent article in that explains how to use youtube-dl to directly download audio instead of first downloading video+audio and then extracting audio using -x.

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