08 Sep 2017 by demon36  tech_stuff

update: probably useless compared to youtube-dl

if you wanted to download audio from youtube you just head to solutions like keepvid that re-encodes youtube audio for you, off course this is a lossy operation.

I've been digging to find a way to just rip youtube audio as it is and found a basic way of doing that.

so

vlc > media > convert/save > network

enter youtube link in addition to &fmt=##

where ## is the desired codec from the table below (available on wikipedia/youtube)

convert > create profile with similar settings > browse for a new .m4a file (for aac) > convert/save > overwrite

it will then begin loading.

i think it works only with vlc versions >=2.2.2

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