I made another yt-dlp frontend!

I made another yt-dlp frontend!
from Kiuyn@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 22:03
https://lemmy.ml/post/31385651

Hi Lemmy!

This post is a way for me to announce one of my apps that I made for my personal usage.

It is a front end for yt-dlp and ffmpeg. It isn’t just a yt-dlp downloader; it’s more like a utility app that does anything that I need. The “special” part about this software is probably the ability to download YouTube subtitles and then embed them into the audio file as synced lyrics. Well, that is the only “unique” thing about it. As I’m still quite new to programming, there may be some bugs, and I appreciate your understanding. I’m also learning how to package it as a deb/rpm and plan to dedicate time to this during the summer. For now, the only way to download it will be to build from source with the bash install script in my repo.

If you have some time to try the app, I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for taking the time to read this! :)

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NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 22:16 next collapse

Will check this out, thanks.

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 22:56 collapse

I hope you will have a fun time with it!

Korronald@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 22:25 next collapse

Very interesting! Sounds useful.

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 22:56 collapse

Thank you!

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 23:39 next collapse

I could never stop singing yt-dlp’s praises. Absolutely life-changing software

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 23:55 next collapse

True! yt-dlp is the best.

tux0r@feddit.org on 08 Jun 23:56 collapse

I wish my own alternative would get similar praises, because it was there when YouTube-dl wasn’t. I’m really bad at marketing, it seems.

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 00:04 next collapse

It seem to be really interesting! I will give it a try.

tux0r@feddit.org on 09 Jun 11:31 collapse

Feedback and patches welcome!

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 09 Jun 00:05 next collapse

Dont give up on it! Its very feasible that yt starts attacking yt-dlp. Invidious is already obfuscated. The more alternatives the better.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 00:26 next collapse

Some love to you too

{PRAISES!}

tux0r@feddit.org on 09 Jun 11:31 collapse

Thanks!

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 19:40 collapse

I make a point of always being on the lookout for different versions or offerings exactly because its so debillitating to me when I lose the use of a tool I rely on. Keep on fighting the good fight. I remember how much it sucked when I ProTube stopped working and Ivory stopped working, those were both bad times for me

tux0r@feddit.org on 09 Jun 20:35 collapse

It’s still rather hard to maintain a software that can download from as many sources as possible on my own. It’s often a game of cat&mouse, sadly.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 20:42 collapse

No no, thats not what I meant. I mean just that I usually keep my eyes peeled for apps that do the same or a similar function as a redundancy backup plan type thing. Like I collect apps that do the same thing but maybe have slightly different or novel implementations cuz I dont want to be caught with my pants down when they wise up to whatever way I was getting the needful done

Lots of respect for what you’re doing and it must be very difficult to try and ensure that level of compat. Hope you’re kind to yourself about it all, thats alot, yo.

tux0r@feddit.org on 10 Jun 07:28 collapse

Oh. Thanks!

can@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jun 00:34 next collapse

Very informative

tux0r@feddit.org on 09 Jun 12:31 collapse

Contributions which improve the documentation are appreciated.

can@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 01:19 collapse

Fair point

freijon@lemmings.world on 09 Jun 05:43 collapse

294 Github stars, I guess your marketing is fine

bimbimboy@lemm.ee on 08 Jun 23:50 next collapse

cool stuff, man. Thanks for sharing

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 23:56 collapse

Thank you!!!

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 09 Jun 00:01 next collapse

Please log in to prove you’re not a bot

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Reddfugee42@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 02:34 collapse

I can’t help that I was born a bot, you bigot.

N0x0n@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 04:29 next collapse

Cool stuff, thank you for sharing your project with the community ! It’s very cool and useful for people who just want a set and forget situation !

I stoped using yt-dlp frontends the moment I saw youtube actually serving upscaled opus media files (very visible line on a spectrogram). Also their metadata is totally fucked-up and not very well organized and full of shit (comments with huge spaces and non useful metadata…).

Sure, the metadata part is easily fixable with Picard MusicBrainz, but the quality downgrade was a huge no for me. Nowadays, I use nicotine, rutracker and private trackers to download FLAC quality files and transcode them to opus 192k to serve them in my Navidrome library with a well curated metadata structure !

Yes it takes way more time and some dedication but it’s worth it :) specially If you are some kind of perfectionist and like everything neatly organized ! 😁

More power to you for keeping the opensource community thriving !! Thank you !

FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 Jun 05:27 next collapse

I stoped using yt-dlp frontends the moment I saw youtube actually serving upscaled opus media files (very visible line on a spectrogram). Also their metadata is totally fucked-up and not very well organized and full of shit (comments with huge spaces and non useful metadata…).

Wow really? Are you sure it applies to all audio files? YouTube gathers music records from different companies so they could be of varying quality. To me the opus quality from YouTube was always decent and personally I cannot hear any compression in the audio. The metada is not perfect, but I usually use some tag editor to complete what’s missing. YTDLnis on Android does a great job of scraping as much usable metada from YouTube Music as possible.

N0x0n@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 07:56 collapse

Not sure if every audio file is upscaled, however I had a few files who clearly were 128kbs mp3 upscaled to ~192kbs opus !

personally I cannot hear any compression in the audio.

100% agree on that xD !! However, I’m some kind of strange audio freak hoarder. If the spectogram of an audio doesn’t reflect my standards (not upsacles audio files…) I won’t keep/archive it !

Do note that I didn’t used a paid YouTube account… Maybe they don’t serve HQ audio files to free users? Dunno, but after some digging into the spectograms I was not happy seeing how bad they looked !

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 11:18 collapse

Thanks for the nice comment! I’m actually planning to maybe integrate the Picard metadata into my music downloader. It is still a plan though. I have no working prototype yet.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 20:45 next collapse

Hey, while we have you, can I ask what is the best way to join or merge all the downloaded videos still using the command line. Like do I cd to the download directory and have it do something, something somethint ffmpeg?

Also, is downloading the mp4 significantly different in sound quality than bestaudio (which tends to output a webm rather than mp4)?

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 10 Jun 00:15 collapse

For the first question, I assume that you want to put all video downloaded into one big video in CLI. I guess you can do something like this with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i “concat:input1|input2|input3|etc” -codec copy output.mkv If you want to work it out with yt-dlp you can try this:

yt-dlp “a link” Assuming you get mp4 format ls -1 *.mp4 > file_list.txt then ffmpeg -safe 0 -f concat -i list.txt -c copy output.mp4

Also, is downloading the mp4 significantly different in sound quality than bestaudio (which tends to output a webm rather than mp4)?

For your second question, I am not sure my self to be honest. I never actually look at it. That is why for my app this is the arg I use to get best video and also best audio: -f “bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best”

You can probably play a bit more with the format, if you feel like it.

Hope this help!

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 10 Jun 00:21 collapse

Thanks!

Tapeykatt@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 21:14 next collapse

Looks good

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 10 Jun 00:17 collapse

Thank you!

figjam@midwest.social on 09 Jun 21:41 collapse

Does Yt-dlp still work with YouTube?

Kiuyn@lemmy.ml on 09 Jun 23:57 collapse

Yes, it work perfectly for youtube. In fact, it is the main way I download and consume music now days!