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I'm super lazy and can't be bothered manually converting each one, is there any good tools/sites I can use to convert the whole playlist? I used to use youtube-DLG but it seems to have stopped working.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use https://stacher.io/. It's a yt dl UI.

Absolutely love it. Very easy to use and lots of options.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This one worked perfectly with a test playlist, very good UI too.

Might use as my main yt downloader, thanks for the reply.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use media-downloader as the frontend to yt-dlp

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

look on github for ytdl-sub. awesome app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

JDownloader also works great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try tzahi12345/youtubedl-material for a handy UI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would you want to convert to mp3? This ain't 2003, there's way better formats to use than that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Because the first audio format I think of is mp3, that's literally it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can you give some examples to read up on?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on whether you want lossless or lossy. For lossy, OOG Vorbis is the way to go if you want to support open source. If you don't care about that, WMA is a proprietary format alternative. Both WMA and Vorbis have better quality than MP3, with equivalent file sizes. I use Vorbis myself, because it's free.

If you want lossless, idk, because I don't fuck with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just a small question let us say i wanted to convert all of my mp3 files into oog or wma. Will i loose some quality or it is fine (my files are around 128kbps)??? Because better quality for same size seems like a switch i would do. (I will convert with AIMP)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If they're already MP3 then don't bother. Can't make it sound better after it's already been compressed. You'd need to get source material then convert to whatever format.

There's nothing wrong with MP3 though. Hell most people are listening to streaming like Pandora and Spotify and don't complain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Vorbis has better compression than MP3, so you won't lose any quality, and the files should be a little smaller.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There might be, but as a standard mp3 is by far the most cross compatible format on any device. Plus, if you feel like it later you can just create a program to convert all the mp3 files into other formats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OOG Vorbis has been around for years, what device are you imagining that can't play it? A Zune?

Likely they are putting it on mobile phone, and both major OSes can handle those files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My phone will play .ogg with VLC, but the little bar that tracks song progress is broken, same with .opus. .flac works but phone manufacturers have decided I don't need storage space and I instead need their cloud, which I refuse to use, so .mp3 it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're having issues with OOG, then try AAC. It was designed to be the successor to MP3, and when MP3 is phased out in the coming years, it will be in favor of AAC. I use Vorbis because it's open source, but there are other options than that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'll give it a shot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you're probably right about that, i never thought of it that way!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seal app on Android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True. Maybe next time i download new ones i will think of making them into vorbis instead of mp3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use Podsync for turning YouTube channels into podcasts

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please don't convert to mp3. YouTube's quality already isn't great, you don't need further compression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What alternatives do you suggest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

By all means download from YouTube, just don't convert to MP3.

If you want higher quality then there are tools for downloading from Deezer and Qobuz.