Feature Request: Use best quality audio setting on youtube-dl

[gobuchul]

The current implementation uses the default audio quality setting on youtube-dl passing the flag: "-audio-quality 0" would achieve this.

[nicolaasjan]

The current implementation uses the default audio quality setting on youtube-dl passing the flag: "-audio-quality 0" would achieve this.

That would be: --audio-quality 0 (VBR; 256kbps) ;) The default for youtube-dl is 128kbps.

[nicolaasjan]

The following change in yt_splitter.dart results in a much faster download (only audio is downloaded) and better mp3 quality:

@@ -47,9 +47,13 @@ void main(List<String> arguments) async {
         //'--write-description',
         '--write-info-json',
         '--write-thumbnail',
+        '--format',
+        'bestaudio',
         '--extract-audio',
         '--audio-format',
         'mp3',
+        '--audio-quality',
+        '0',
         '--output',
         'output.%(ext)s',
         'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$videoId'

Tested with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13m5-0EOwIM :

yt-splitter 13m5-0EOwIM
YT video: 13m5-0EOwIM...
Downloading and converting audio file from YouTube...
[youtube] 13m5-0EOwIM: Downloading webpage
[info] Writing video description metadata as JSON to: output.info.json
[youtube] 13m5-0EOwIM: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] 13m5-0EOwIM: Writing thumbnail to: output.jpg
[download] Destination: output.webm
08/21 19:48:08 [NOTICE] Downloading 1 item(s)
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08/21 19:48:40 [NOTICE] Download complete: /home/nico/.cache/yt-splitter/13m5-0EOwIM/output.webm.part
Download Results:
gid   |stat|avg speed  |path/URI
======+====+===========+=======================================================
66ec7b|OK  |   3.3MiB/s|/home/nico/.cache/yt-splitter/13m5-0EOwIM/output.webm.part
Status Legend:
(OK):download completed.
[aria2c] Downloaded 113672069 bytes
[download] 100% of 108.41MiB in 00:32
[ffmpeg] Destination: output.mp3
Deleting original file output.webm (pass -k to keep)
[ffmpeg] Adding metadata to 'output.mp3'
[ffmpeg] Adding thumbnail to "output.mp3"
Tracks will be saved to Pink Floyd - "Delicate Sound of Thunder" New 4k Edition
Splitting mp3 file...
[splitting] 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond...
[splitting] 2. Signs of Life...
[splitting] 3. Learning to Fly...
[splitting] 4. Sorrow...
[splitting] 5. Dogs of War...
[splitting] 6. On The Turning Away...
[splitting] 7. One of These Days...
[splitting] 8. Time...
[splitting] 9. On The Run...
[splitting] 10. The Great Gig in the Sky...
[splitting] 11. Wish You Were Here...
[splitting] 12. US and Them...
[splitting] 13. Money...
[splitting] 14. Comfortably Numb...
[splitting] 15. One Slip...
[splitting] 16. Run Like Hell...