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[SOLVED] How do you download Youtube audio with highest quality? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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edit: Guys, I now yt-dlp is the way to go, but is there a gui front end for yt-dlp with all the options that I get on cli? Or else, just advice me on how to use the yt-dlp cli

I need the best audio-quality and I want it to be webm and want it to be downloaded with transcripts too, so what should I do?

I tried this snap video-downloader and it was able to download a webm file and it's amazing. I love it. But, I am not sure if it's the best quality I can get. I was wondering what Linux native software you used to download Youtube audio in it's best quality.

btw, when I downloaded the .webm file, I got it along with the transcribed text and it plays in the place where video subs play and it's quite nice.

Something else

https://www.makeuseof.com/download-youtube-videos-yt-dlp-linux-terminal/

Removes all sponsors and downloads the best audio into Videos/yt-dlp

cd Videos/yt-dlp &* youtube-dlp yt-dlp -x --audio-quality=0 --sponsorblock-mark all --sponsorblock-remove all [YOUTUBE-URL] && cd ~

sudo snap video-downloader

Video-downloader snap downloads the package Video-Downloader and this can be opened through terminal (you can create a .desktop file through menulibre for this) And all videos with varying degree of quality can be downloaded here. But, this doesn't include sponsorblocks so idk, use yt-dlp here too, but I don't download videos so I don't really care for this.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use YouTube links which gives you direct links to the media. It's a userscript so you'll need the ability to run those. Also it doesn't seem to play nicely with premium, but that's easily worked around by letting it run in incognito tabs. Even with the quirks it's way better than any middleman download site.

I also have yt-dlp which is also awesome, but works differently. I do use both depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.. for a single audio or video file YouTube Links is more convenient, for anything more than that yt-dlp is the way to go.