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mps-youtube / yewtube

yewtube, forked from mps-youtube , is a Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required.
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Audio downloaded as .webm when using da #597

Open raine opened 7 years ago

raine commented 7 years ago

I used da to download the whole playlist as audio files.

    da <number(s)> - download best available audio file(s).

Most of the files were in m4a format, but some of them were webm.

I ended up using youtube-dl with -x --audio-format best and the playlist was downloaded and converted to audio without webms.

lwilletts commented 7 years ago

Not sure if this is a true issue, mpsyt doesn't offer transcoding as ffmpeg is not a dependency for mpsyt. Not everyone who uses mpsyt cares about transcoding downloaded audio files, especially seeing as doing so would add a hefty dependency, and there are already programs like youtube-dl which deal with this problem nicely.

I do believe it is already possible to use youtube-dl as an external downloader with mpsyt though, see help dl-command in mpsyt.

raine commented 7 years ago

I do believe it is already possible to use youtube-dl as an external downloader

I figured this would already be the case since this appears in the README:

Installing youtube_dl is highly recommended