Download m4a files youtube-dl

 · @s4y youtube-dl will indeed transcode when it needs to (--audio-format option) but you are right here: it should not be the case with that line, because you are forcing youtube-dl to download two files (bestaudio[ext=mp4] and bestvideo[ext=m4a]) that have the same kind of container in common (mp4), so whatever their content, when remuxing it, they will be stacked in another mp4 without any Reviews: 3. When I download m4a audio files using the youtube-dl script if I choose to directly download a m4a audio file it won't work. What does work is choosing to download a low-quality mp4 audio/video file and converting it using this command switch. By default, youtube-dl will resume downloads if possible. --no-continue Do not resume partially downloaded files (restart from beginning) --no-part Do not bltadwin.ru files - write directly into output file --no-mtime Do not use the Last-modified header to set the file modification time --write-description Write video description to a.

Youtube serves audio in different formats (opus, aac, vorbis) and bitrates. youtube-dl -f bestaudio URL. loads the highest quality audio stream. youtube-dl -f bestaudio [ext=m4a] URL. loads the highest quality aac stream from youtube. (sry i'm on mobile) 1. level 2. Using youtube-dl. As I've already explained before, to run youtube-dl you'll either write something like py m youtube_dl (if you've installed it to your global python packages) or run youtube-dl if you've downloaded the pre-built exe or have installed it in a virtualenv. To save you from some keystrokes, you can create a batch file that will run and pass any more parameters to it. Sample M4A Files Download. M4A. MPEG-4 Apple Lossless Audio Codec. M4A is a compressed audio file formatted developed by Apple. Below you will find a selection of sample.m4a audio files for you to download. On the right there are some details about the file such as its size so you can best decide which one will fit your needs.

@sunk and just a public announcement that: youtube-dl and newer will automatically correct the header of the m4a file if ffmpeg is present on the system. So, if ffmpeg is installed before youtube-dl is called now it will automatically fix the DASH container and you won't need to run sunk's fix. [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading webpage [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Extracting video information [youtube] jwD4AEVBL6Q: Downloading MPD manifest [download] Destination: Bad Style - Time back-jwD4AEVBL6Q.m4a [download] % of MiB in [ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Bad Style - Time. batch file contains: youtube-dl -f bestaudio -x --audio-format mp3 %* save the batch file in the same dir as youtube-dl (I save it as bltadwin.ru) in the same directory have ffmpeg installed. Whenever i want to download audio (Usually for me a youtube DJ Mix) I just pass the (youtube) URL to the batch file.