I often used this site to download flac songs that I was unable to find on SLSK or other torrents. Is there an alternative to this site that anyone knows of. It will be missed.
Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:
-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and
ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently
supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus,
vorbis, wav). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax
as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with
-x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)
You might have to use a tool to re-do the tags, but that’s pretty easy to do. Edit: also want to point out that yt-dlp also works with a number of other sites besides Youtube.
I suggest trying out this YouTube Music app. You can install a plugin from the app that will use yt-dlp and download from YouTube Music which gets you slightly better audio quality at 256kbps vs downloading from a YouTube video.
Youtube audio quality is such crap though. Whenever I try pirating music via youtube there’s never a bass channel. I have a good stereo system in my car so that’s not acceptable.
I get that, but if it’s the only place something exists, it might be your only option and I was just tossing it out there so people knew it was available.
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Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:
You might have to use a tool to re-do the tags, but that’s pretty easy to do. Edit: also want to point out that yt-dlp also works with a number of other sites besides Youtube.
Youtube Audio sounds like crap tho
This is a method I use regularly but I don’t think you’re going to obtain any lossless content from youtube.
Usually Opus 160kbps… re-encoded from who knows what how many times.
I suggest trying out this YouTube Music app. You can install a plugin from the app that will use yt-dlp and download from YouTube Music which gets you slightly better audio quality at 256kbps vs downloading from a YouTube video.
It’s good to know how to rip the opus without reencoding from YouTube but please don’t use this as your primary source of music
Youtube audio quality is such crap though. Whenever I try pirating music via youtube there’s never a bass channel. I have a good stereo system in my car so that’s not acceptable.
I get that, but if it’s the only place something exists, it might be your only option and I was just tossing it out there so people knew it was available.