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Useful program to record with.

Example command on linux to download and convert a video file on YT to an MP3 file:

youtube-dl -x --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3uaKVI8Fg

ffmpeg will also be needed for file conversion: sudo apt install ffmpeg -y

as well as python: sudo apt install python -y

p.s.

curl is a useful command and concept to dig in to if you don't know about it, as well as cron jobs to automate tasks.

Useful program to record with. [Youtube-dl Website](http://youtube-dl.org/) Example command on linux to download and convert a video file on YT to an MP3 file: youtube-dl -x --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3uaKVI8Fg ffmpeg will also be needed for file conversion: sudo apt install ffmpeg -y as well as python: sudo apt install python -y p.s. curl is a useful command and concept to dig in to if you don't know about it, as well as cron jobs to automate tasks.

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Also worth noting youtube-dl supports many other platforms as well; I've personally used youtube-dl to rip videos/audio from: bitchute, SoundCloud, YouTube, and some random other sites that had embedded media.

You can also download entire channels or playlists! I'm currently archiving Adam Green's KMN channel with the handy command:

youtube-dl -ciw --prefer-free-formats https://bitchute.com/channel/know-more-news/

Also, make sure you install youtube-dl via pip rather than your system's package manager, because the pip version always has the latest version (important here because YouTube frequently changes their encoding scheme to essentially block things like youtube-dl).

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Nice, it works with Band Camp as well. Reminds me of the jDownloader tool that handles so many sites.

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I rip all my karaoke songs with that

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Just be sure you do youtube-dl -U often as YouTube breaks the algo very often.

A nice companion is to watch YouTube on the phone, with full background, audio-only, and downloading capabilities. Also must be updated often.

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yep, been using this for a while. super useful for people like me with 0.1Mb/s down internet. I can queue up a bunch of videos to download and watch them later without having to sit through awful buffering..