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Comment by krick | Hacker News Reader

Cannot understand what exactly is that. I have used a simple alias called (unsurprisingly) yt-audio for years, which is youtube-dl with appropriate flags (-x, --audio-quality, --download-archive, -o, etc.), and this seems to be exactly that, only written in python for some reason.

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For the record, if you only use youtube-dl for the purposes of downloading audio (like me), then you can keep a config file in $HOME/.config/youtube-dl/config with default arguments so you don't have to look them up each time. For example, here's a sample from my config:

    # extract audio only
    -x
    # stick to mp3
    --audio-format mp3
    # get rid of the annoying URL stuff at the end
    -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

A minor extension of the idea here and of the GP - I have aliased 'yt' and 'ytm' to target two different config files in the same folder path you gave.

Can you share this? I've been meaning to do something very similar for the longest while and haven't got around to it.

It adds a few more functionalities like setting up custom arguments, option to keep track of downloaded titles without archive file, and a few more. It just tries to make audio/playlist management easy. As mentioned, it is a youtube-dl wrapper. So under the hood it uses classic youtube-dl arguments.

Is there any reason these features couldn't be pushed upstream into youtube-dl proper?

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