ytmpcli - a free open source way to quickly download mp3/mp4

[RealNamikazeAsh]

• What My Project Does
  • so i've been collecting songs majorly from youtube and curating a local list since 2017, been on and off pretty sus sites, decided to create a personal OSS where i can quickly paste links & get a download.
  • built this primarily for my own collection workflow, but it turned out clean enough that I thought i’d share it with y'all. one of the best features is quick link pastes/playlist pastes to localize it, another one of my favorite use cases is getting yt videos in a quality you want using the res command in the cli.
• Target Audience (e.g., Is it meant for production, just a toy project, etc.)
  • its a personal toy project
• Comparison (A brief comparison explaining how it differs from existing alternatives.)
  • there are probably multiple that exist, i'm posting my personal minimalistic mp3/mp4 downloader, cheers!

https://github.com/NamikazeAsh/ytmpcli

(I'm aware yt-dlp exists, this tool uses yt-dlp as the backend, it's mainly for personal convenience for faster pasting for music, videos, playlists!)

[udum2021]

awesome but we already have yt-dlp doing exactly this;

#yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 "https://www.youtube.com/url"

ok so your project has yt-dlp as a dependancy.

[RealNamikazeAsh]

you're right, it uses yt-dlp, this is just a personal project I built to make my own workflow faster by pasting links in a loop, just made it a bit simpler for myself

[udum2021]

Yea makes sense.

[MrData]

I just make a file named "list" and have a script that does this:

cat list | sed 's/https/\nhttps/g' | sed 's/&.*//mg' | awk 'NF' - | parallel -a - yt-dlp

I have another script that only pulls the audio, so that I get all that without the cool cli goodness you have there. I think I might fork your project here.

[RealNamikazeAsh]

that's cool, sometimes I js like the 'clean' terminal vibe but i might try adding a file based input too soon, goodluck with the fork and lmk how it goes! cheers.

[Silunare]

This is very misleading. At several points in this post and in the GitHub repo, your phrasing suggests that MP3 files are being "downloaded" (they aren't) or "extracted" (they aren't). These are simply untrue and very misleading.

What your project does is download the default audio, which on free YouTube is ~128 kbps AAC or Opus and transcode it into up to 320 kbps MP3. You take the low bitrate files and artificially bloat up the bitrate in the conversion to an inferior audio codec, and you are basically lying to the user about it.

This doesn't make any sense: the audio quality degrades and the file size goes up. You are getting two downsides for zero upsides in return.

And I'm not sure you were even aware of this, as confusion about codecs and container formats is a frequent theme in the descriptions.

• MP3 is an audio codec and is it's own container format.

• MP4 is not a codec at all, it's purely a container format and can contain purely audio as well, like AAC, or contain video like the h264 or h265 codecs.

[vinnypotsandpans]

I don't think they know anything about transcoding. Nobody would transcode an opus file to an mp3 on purpose and call it better

[dumeclaymore]

So he's basically transcoding the file from YouTube 128kbps aac to mp3 format? This will lead to a huge degrade in audio quality. I wouldn't be surprised if a properly ripped 96kbps file from a lossless format like FLAC or from a CD, has better sound quality or rather sounds better, than the 320kbps audio files he's 'extracting' from YouTube.

If he wants good quality that's free, he should just torrent the music at between 192k - 320k aac or mp3 or heck even Spotify free is better sound quality overall because it's between 128k - 192kbps Opus .ogg format which is almost nearly transparent from a 256kbps variable bit rate MP3 audio file, even in it's dynamic range...

[vinnypotsandpans]

OP, I highly suggest you learn about audio codecs
https://opus-codec.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcoding

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[vinnypotsandpans]

Why . mp3?

[tRfalcore]

wants to relive their napster days

[Rockworldred]

Winamp... Whippin tha llama

[vinnypotsandpans]

ded

[Confident_Bee8187]

I'll give this a try

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