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.

  • FigMcLargeHugeEnglish
    218·
    8 months 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.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      8 months ago

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

    • MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Youtube audio quality is such crap though. Whenever I try pirating music via youtube there’s never a bass channel. I have a good stereo system in my car so that’s not acceptable.

      • FigMcLargeHugeEnglish
        51·
        8 months ago

        I get that, but if it’s the only place something exists, it might be your only option and I was just tossing it out there so people knew it was available.

    • biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.workEnglish
      3·
      8 months 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.

    • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 months 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