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I made another yt-dlp frontend! (lemmy.ml)
submitted 22 hours ago by Kiuyn@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi Lemmy!

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

Azul box

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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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 43 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] freijon 7 points 14 hours ago

294 Github stars, I guess your marketing is fine

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 27 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Very informative

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago

Contributions which improve the documentation are appreciated.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (1 children)

Some love to you too

{PRAISES!}

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks!

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

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

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

Feedback and patches welcome!

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

True! yt-dlp is the best.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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 !

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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 !

[–] NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Will check this out, thanks.

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

I hope you will have a fun time with it!

[–] bimbimboy@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

cool stuff, man. Thanks for sharing

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

Thank you!!!

[–] Korronald@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Very interesting! Sounds useful.

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

Thank you!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Please log in to prove you're not a bot

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

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