Re: OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

2020-09-21 Thread Dave Lambley
Hi Budge, > On 09/21/2020 11:56 PM budge wrote: > > > Please forgive the OT question but I am seeking advice on sensible > download format for saving the audio from youtube videos which are > available to supplement specific items from my early music collection. > > My preferred solution

Re: OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

2020-09-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:56:45PM +0100, budge wrote: > Please forgive the OT question but I am seeking advice on sensible > download format for saving the audio from youtube videos which are > available to supplement specific items from my early music collection. > > My preferred solution is

Re: OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

2020-09-21 Thread VeniVidiVideo
As you suspect, there is no value in losslessly re-encoding something that is already lossy encoded. If the re-encoding process is perfect you'll still just end up with a perfect copy of the original lossy recording. Using youtube-dl with appropriate parameters should get you as good as you

OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

2020-09-21 Thread budge
Please forgive the OT question but I am seeking advice on sensible download format for saving the audio from youtube videos which are available to supplement specific items from my early music collection. My preferred solution is to download the audio using youtube-dl and I know I could then