Boundaries: When to say yes, how to say no to take control of your life.

[iamthatis]

Well it shouldn't be too hard past the first couple of uses. The key, as always, is to read carefully the instructions. If the technobabble is too much (tech people love using their own jargon), don't hesitate to ask for more pointers. I'd be happy to help

Thank you, @Recto!

If you are comfortable using the command line/terminal (or not scared to try using it) you can use youtube-dl which is a software with many options that is updated very regularly in order to be always "compatible" with Youtube updates regarding the download of video/audio. You can find the documentation for the installation process on Mac OS and the options available here :

youtube-dl/README.md at master · ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites - ytdl-org/youtube-dl

github.com

It can be installed through Homebrew which is a command line software installer. For your use case the command would be for instance :


The youtube-dl can download the audio directly but it is either in webm or m4a format. With the command above, it downloads the video then extracts the audio to the target format. For that it uses ffmpeg + ffprobe (or avconv + avprobe), they can be installed using Homebrew as well .
For downloading a webm or m4a audio directly you can do :


I've never had any issue with this software as long as I keep it up to date. On top of that, it is powerful enough to do fancy stuff when needed (e.g. downloading playlists, bypassing georestrictions, adding post processing tasks, etc).

So I have 'youtube-dl' installed. I'm trying to download this Jordan Petersen talk on youtube:

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I open terminal, and enter:

youtube-dl --extract-audio --mp3

But I get the line, 'command not found'. Can you advise? Do I need to use the specifications listed on the youtube-dl site in order to designate a space to download, for instance? There are a lot of parameters that can be coded in, and I'm unsure what to include.

 

[whitecoast]

Thank you, @Recto!


So I have 'youtube-dl' installed. I'm trying to download this Jordan Petersen talk on youtube:

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>

I open terminal, and enter:


But I get the line, 'command not found'. Can you advise? Do I need to use the specifications listed on the youtube-dl site in order to designate a space to download, for instance? There are a lot of parameters that can be coded in, and I'm unsure what to include.

Had a quick look here:

Youtube-dl Tutorial With Examples For Beginners - OSTechNix

This tutorial explains the list of most commonly used Youtube-dl commands to download videos from Youtube and hundreds of websites in Linux.

ostechnix.com

And found this:

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-cwdnsiow

So it just looks like you don't need two dashes in front of mp3. I hope that works for you.

 

[iamthatis]

Had a quick look here:

Youtube-dl Tutorial With Examples For Beginners - OSTechNix

This tutorial explains the list of most commonly used Youtube-dl commands to download videos from Youtube and hundreds of websites in Linux.

ostechnix.com

And found this:

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-cwdnsiow

So it just looks like you don't need two dashes in front of mp3. I hope that works for you.

Thanks - I use a download site now, linked below. I often have to change my VPN in order to use it, but it has been simple and effective.

Experience this fast and easy YouTube MP3 converter for your everyday audio files!

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youryoutubetomp3.com

 

[mkrnhr]

Usually, youtube-dl -F <yt link> gives you the formats that are available to download. The default that I use most often is youtube-dl -f 18 <link>. It's a 640x360 mp4 file (easy to play). If I need to extract the audio alone, I use ffmpeg: the simplest would be ffmpeg -i downloadedVideo.mp4 -vn outputAudio.mp3 and it's quasi instantaneous.
Hope it helps.

 

[Jones]

Here Henry Cloud talks further on how to set boundaries.