[SOLVED] How do you download Youtube audio with highest quality?
edit: Guys, I now yt-dlp is the way to go, but is there a gui front end for yt-dlp with all the options that I get on cli?
Or else, just advice me on how to use the yt-dlp cli
I need the best audio-quality and I want it to be webm and want it to be downloaded with transcripts too, so what should I do?
I tried this snap video-downloader and it was able to download a webm file and it's amazing. I love it. But, I am not sure if it's the best quality I can get. I was wondering what Linux native software you used to download Youtube audio in it's best quality.
btw, when I downloaded the .webm file, I got it along with the transcribed text and it plays in the place where video subs play and it's quite nice.
Removes all sponsors and downloads the best audio into Videos/yt-dlp
cd Videos/yt-dlp &* youtube-dlp yt-dlp -x --audio-quality=0 --sponsorblock-mark all --sponsorblock-remove all [YOUTUBE-URL] && cd ~
sudo snap video-downloader
Video-downloader snap downloads the package Video-Downloader and this can be opened through terminal (you can create a .desktop file through menulibre for this)
And all videos with varying degree of quality can be downloaded here. But, this doesn't include sponsorblocks so idk, use yt-dlp here too, but I don't download videos so I don't really care for this.
It works with ffmpeg and you can choose the quality you want to download from Youtube. Also its nice if you want to record a livestream as its being broadcast. Its also not limited to just Youtube either, it seems to work on lots of sites.
yt-dlp -f bestaudio video_url will download the highest quality audio format available. You don't want to reencode the audio, that will reduce the quality. On most videos, the best audio will be opus in a webm container.