

opus container, use ffmpeg: įfmpeg -i "downloaded_file.webm" -acodec copy "downloaded_file.opus"Īnother thing that you might find helpful, is to replay gain your downloaded audio. To download the direct YouTube streams WITHOUT recoding, use yt-dlp: ** ANY** other format downloaded by some tool or software, such as 320 kbps, wav, flac, mp3, etc., are RECODED. The above formats are what YouTube streams. It used to exist years ago, but YouTube got rid of it. I'm a YouTube premium member and I've never seen any audio available at 256k.


For the most part it's fine, but you'll probably get notiecably better quality on a dedicated music service (Pandora, etc.) Youtube audio is available in the following formats:
