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JaGoLi / ytdl-gui

A simple-to-use, cross-platform graphical interface for youtube-dl.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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FLAC support #44

Closed sanjayen closed 3 years ago

sanjayen commented 3 years ago

Thank you for creating this GUI. I have to struggle with the command line of youtube-dl. I installed v2.5 using Flatpak. But I see OGG instead of FLAC as an option for audio downloads. The screenshot shows that ytdl-gui used to have FLAC support earlier. Any reason this was replaced with OGG? Can you please add it back?

Keep up the good work.

JaGoLi commented 3 years ago

I removed FLAC support because it is fake, and not real lossless audio. The flac option basically took a lossy audio file from youtube and re-encoded it to FLAC. If you want the best audio possible, just use the default checkbox when the audio tab is selected. Youtube-dl defaults with the best format and you will not have any other losses with re-encoding.

sanjayen commented 3 years ago

Thank you. Will use the default option.