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by FabHK 765 days ago
Might be worth

a) highlighting that this extracts the audio track only (not everyone is 100% firm with their audio and video formats)

b) investigating whether one could, instead of downloading the highest video quality and then discarding it, download only the highest quality audio? (yt-dlp and cousins allow that.)
1 comments
userbinator 765 days ago
a) highlighting that this extracts the audio track only

I think it's pretty clear from the title that this is audio-only.

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HaZeust 765 days ago
MP3 (audio-only) and MP4 (video) is a one-character difference. It's clear to the people that browse HackerNews, it is seldom clear to the layperson.
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nvy 765 days ago
Laypeople have known what MP3s are since Napster was making headlines. Laypeople have mostly never heard of MP4.
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Joel_Mckay 765 days ago
Fewer remember modified mp4 with patched atom location to help play media while downloading off a CDN.

For most mobile users, using the more modern VP9 and HEVC essentially just burns battery life, and even modern GPU based desktop users usually see their card warm up on YT.

MP4 is far from perfect, but play/resume/skip-to location media mods for a web-server are common (js or html5 support is stable.) This saves a lot of grief setting up media servers, but most people now just use an online platform... rather than figure this stuff out.

I kind of miss the days a lazy layman coudn't post lame garbage video content.

Have a wonderful day =3

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