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I made another yt-dlp frontend! (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 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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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago (1 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 convert 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 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 !

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

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 applyes 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.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 32 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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@lemmings.world 3 points 2 hours ago

294 Github stars, I guess your marketing is fine

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 21 points 7 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 18 points 7 hours ago

Very informative

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Some love to you too

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

True! yt-dlp is the best.

[–] bimbimboy@lemm.ee 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

cool stuff, man. Thanks for sharing

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Thank you!!!

[–] NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Will check this out, thanks.

[–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

I hope you will have a fun time with it!

[–] Korronald@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Very interesting! Sounds useful.

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

Thank you!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Please log in to prove you're not a bot

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

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