youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 <Video-URL>
From
man youtube-dl
-x, --extract-audio Convert video files to audio-only files (requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or avprobe) --audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav"; "best" by default --audio-quality QUALITY Specify ffmpeg/avconv audio quality, insert a value between 0 (better) and 9 (worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like 128K (default
So your command could be as:
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 <Video-URL>
So in simple the option
--audio-quality 0
is same as usingbestaudio
, you don’t need to usebestaudio
.Using
bestaudio
will obligate to download m4a, so you have to convert it back to mp3.ffmpeg -v 5 -y -i input.m4a -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 192k output.mp3
How to download youtube videos as a best quality audio mp3 using youtube-dl - Ask Ubuntu
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