Why not use --extract-audio?

Question

Why not use --extract-audio?

chankeypathak opened this issue 10 years ago · comments

This is so slow as compared to the native solution

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 videoURL

Jonhnny Weslley · Answer 1 · Wed Oct 22 2014 04:05:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

hi @chankeypathak you're right. In fact, I dont use this script anymore. I have a youtube-dl config file which sets --audio-format mp3 by default and when I wanna download just audio I just type: youtube-dl -x <url>

Chankey Pathak · Answer 2 · Wed Oct 22 2014 04:06:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ah OK.

Yes. Setting options in conf file is better.

Matteo Contrini · Answer 3 · Sat Jul 18 2015 02:16:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Why where you converting the video to wav and then to MP3 with lame? Wasn't ffmpeg with MP3 output enough?

Thanks.

Jonhnny Weslley · Answer 4 · Sat Jul 18 2015 05:45:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@matteocontrini Please just use the youtube-dl´s built-in solution to extract audio. It´s simpler. :D

Matteo Contrini · Answer 5 · Sat Jul 18 2015 05:46:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Just asked why...

Jonhnny Weslley · Answer 6 · Sat Jul 18 2015 05:49:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I wrote this a long long time ago I just can't remember...

diveyez · Answer 7 · Sun Mar 04 2018 05:39:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

https://github.com/diveyez/y2mp3/
HOPE THAT HELPS!