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Music site free-mp3-download has shut down (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 years ago by Blxter@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I often used this site to download flac songs that I was unable to find on SLSK or other torrents. Is there an alternative to this site that anyone knows of. It will be missed.

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[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just want to point out that you can download audio from a Youtube video using yt-dlp and the following options:

-x, --extract-audio                               Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg and
                                                  ffprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT                             Format to convert the audio to when -x is used. (currently
                                                  supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus,
                                                  vorbis, wav). You can specify multiple rules using similar syntax
                                                  as --remux-video
--audio-quality QUALITY                           Specify ffmpeg audio quality to use when converting the audio with
                                                  -x. Insert a value between 0 (best) and 10 (worst) for VBR or a
                                                  specific bitrate like 128K (default 5)

You might have to use a tool to re-do the tags, but that's pretty easy to do. Edit: also want to point out that yt-dlp also works with a number of other sites besides Youtube.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 27 points 2 years ago

Youtube Audio sounds like crap tho

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

This is a method I use regularly but I don't think you're going to obtain any lossless content from youtube.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago

Usually Opus 160kbps... re-encoded from who knows what how many times.

[-] biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.work 3 points 2 years ago

I suggest trying out this YouTube Music app. You can install a plugin from the app that will use yt-dlp and download from YouTube Music which gets you slightly better audio quality at 256kbps vs downloading from a YouTube video.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It's good to know how to rip the opus without reencoding from YouTube but please don't use this as your primary source of music

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