#Mediahuman audio converter linux install#
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So typically you'll drag and drop your files onto Audio Converter, choose the output format, click the 'Start conversion' button, and then just wait for your files to be converted. The program's main focus is on keeping the conversion process as simple as possible. Not exactly original, then, but at least you can be sure of reliable results (FFmpeg is as good as conversion utilities get). -embed-thumbnail - (Optionally) Embed the video thumbnail into the saved audio files as album art metadata (will be shown in media player applications).MediaHuman Audio Converter is a straightforward program which makes it quick and easy to convert audio files between the most popular formats (AAC, AC-3, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV and WMA).Īs with many similar tools, the conversions are actually carried out by the popular FFmpeg utility.If you do not pass this option, youtube-dl uses a default value of 5, often resulting in lower quality audio than you will get with a value of 0. The possible values here are 0-9 (you can also pass explicit bitrate such as 128K). -audio-quality 0 - Save audio with highest quality possible.-audio-format mp3 - Save the audio stream in mp3 format.-extract-audio - Extract the audio stream and discard the video.-prefer-ffmpeg - Tells youtube-dl to prefer ffmpeg (as opposed to avconv).youtube-dl -prefer-ffmpeg -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -embed-thumbnail īreaking down the meaning of the supplied options: You can pass it an URL for a single song or even an entire playlist.

Youtube-dl -yes-playlist -ignore-errors -sleep-interval 30 -o '%(playlist)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' '$1'įor this task, I use youtube-dl (w/ a dependency on ffmpeg) with the following options for best results. Youtube-dl -ignore-errors -sleep-interval 30 -i -f bestaudio -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' '$1' Youtube-dl -ignore-errors -f bestaudio -extract-audio -audio-format mp3 -audio-quality 0 -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' '$1' This will also help make sure your IP doesn't get banned. It is really simple and also respects YouTube's flood or bot protection by having a 30 second interval between downloads.

#Mediahuman audio converter linux download#

If I want to download a video as an mp3 I can do that, or download an entire playlist as mp3 I can use mp3p then the url to the playlist.

#Mediahuman audio converter linux install#

This should honestly just be included aliases when you install the youtube-dl package in my opinion. This question has been answered a lot, but I figured I would add something really useful. For cleanup you may want to type rm _z-hEyVQDRA.flv to get rid of the flv file that you no longer need.Once this has successfully completed you will now have the mp3 file you were after. So for this example you would type ffmpeg -i _z-hEyVQDRA.flv -acodec libmp3lame MasterOfPuppets.mp3 Next you need to copy that file name and then put it in an ffmpg command like ffmpeg -i. What you should see is a flv file with the same name as the 'v' component of the youtube url you downloaded.Į.g if you downloaded then you should have a file called _z-hEyVQDRA.flv

This will list all the flv files you have. Next have a look to make sure the flv file has downloaded from youtube by typing ls *flv Now install ffmpeg from the official repo. c Resume download of a video which was interrupted beforeįor complete list of switches execute man youtube-dl in terminal. You can also specify other options -b Best quality To download a video execute the following: youtube-dl

#Mediahuman audio converter linux upgrade#

This will let you upgrade with sudo youtube-dl -U Or as official readme suggest using curl or wget. Install youtube-dl from the official repository in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install youtube-dl