The online conversion process (naturally) results in loss of quality, and (apparently) it is possible to preserve the original video's audio quality via a direct rip. If so, how would it be done and what format would it be in anyway?

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is what I use for my personal archive:

yt-dlp -f bestaudio/best --extract-audio --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --recode opus --audio-quality 0

It does recode to opus but since the bestaudio is usually in that format already, you don't need it most of the time. You can skip the --recode opus part if you want to. I keep it because I like having a "uniform" collection. You can probably change the bestaudio/best part to simply bestaudio without losing much as well.

[–] TwinHaelix@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it skip the recode completely if the format is already opus?

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

Yes, it does. It just repackages it from .m4a to .opus without re-encoding the actual audio stream.