Downloading music from YouTube will get you MP3s, but they will have gone through the YT compression algorithms.

Use Deemix instead. Downloads MP3s straight from the Deezer servers with all metadata and album art.

Does it automatically grab things like metadata (author, cover art, etc.) for you? And if it requires a flag, do you know it?

Oh hey i saw you in the comments of a brodie robertson video

I didn't see anything like this image in the pytube-fix repo. Do you have a repo of the web interface somewhere? That looks really handy.

Try FreeTube.

Newpipe works fine for me. They always fix it almost immediately.

(Which itself uses yt-dlp)

I use parabolic on PC and Seal (on F-Driod) to download yt videos. Both are just YTDLP with a GUI because I'm not an arch user

If you need a gui or are trying to monitor playlists I would recommend TubeArchivist.

Strange. I downloaded thousands of videos with this tool (but just watched a handful of them) and never noticed an out of sync. Can you point me to a video I can download and test where you have this issue? Is it a new issue? Maybe Google is trolling us or you or your region.

No

All of the good video downloaders are just a wrapper for using this, so it's not really "instead".

Yes

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/8301

Has been merged

I made a script for grabbing reddit videos that's been working pretty well for me, needs Babashka to run https://babashka.org/

#!/usr/bin/env bb
(require '[clojure.java.shell :refer [sh]]
         '[clojure.string :as string]
         '[cheshire.core :as cheshire]
         '[org.httpkit.client :as http]
         '[clojure.walk :as walk])

(defn http-get [url]
  (-> @(http/get url {})
      :body))

(defn find-base-url [data]
  (let [results (atom [])]
    (walk/postwalk
     (fn [node]
       (when (and (string? node) (.contains node "DASH"))
         (swap! results conj node))
       node)
     data)
    (some-> @results first (string/replace #"DASH_[0-9]+\.mp4" ""))))

(defn find-best-quality [names audio?]
  (->> ((if audio? filter remove) #(.contains (.toLowerCase %) "audio") names)
       (sort-by
        (fn [n]
          (-> n
              (string/replace #"\.mp4" "")
              (string/replace #"[a-zA-Z_]" "")
              (Integer/parseInt))))
       (last)))

(defn find-parts [base-url data]
  (let [url (atom nil)
        _ (walk/prewalk
           (fn [node]
             (when (and (map? node)
                        (contains? node :dash_url))
               (reset! url (:dash_url node)))
             node)
           data)
        xml (http-get @url)
        parts (->> (re-seq #"<BaseURL>(.*?)</BaseURL>" xml) (map second))
        best-video (find-best-quality parts false)
        best-audio (find-best-quality parts true)]
    [(str base-url best-video) (str base-url best-audio)]))

(defn filename [url]
  (let [idx (inc (.lastIndexOf url "/"))]
    (subs url idx)))

(defn tsname []
  (str "video-" (System/currentTimeMillis) ".mp4"))

(let [data (-> (first *command-line-args*) (str ".json") http-get (cheshire/decode true)) 
      base-url (find-base-url data)
      [video-url audio-url] (find-parts base-url data)
      video-file (filename video-url)
      audio-file (filename audio-url)]
  (sh "wget" video-url)
  (sh "wget" audio-url)
  (sh "ffmpeg" "-i" video-file "-stream_loop" "-1" "-i" audio-file "-shortest" "-map" "0:v:0" "-map" "1:a:0" "-y" (tsname))
  (sh "rm" audio-file video-file))

You might also look at gallery-dl