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Hi friends,

I've been using yt-dlp to download a few things off of YouTube Music, and I just wanted to ask a few questions about best practice. Right now, I've just been doing it this way:

yt-dlp -f bestaudio -x

I've found that has usually downloaded .opus files (though, .m4a as of late—anyone know why this is?), but, I was wondering (for the sake of compatibility with different music players), do I lose anything by passing --recode mp3?

Also, about losing the .opus files, I got this output when I ran yt-dlp -F on a link:

|ID |  EXT   RESOLUTION FPS CH |    FILESIZE  TBR PROTO | VCODEC         VBR ACODEC      ABR ASR MORE INFO
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
233 mp4   audio only        |                  m3u8  | audio only         unknown             Default
234 mp4   audio only        |                  m3u8  | audio only         unknown             Default
249 webm  audio only      2 |     1.30MiB  64k https | audio only         opus        64k 48k low, THROTTLED, webm_dash
250 webm  audio only      2 |     1.64MiB  81k https | audio only         opus        81k 48k low, THROTTLED, webm_dash
139 m4a   audio only      2 |  1019.36KiB  49k https | audio only         mp4a.40.5   49k 22k low, m4a_dash
251 webm  audio only      2 |     3.03MiB 149k https | audio only         opus       149k 48k medium, THROTTLED, webm_dash
140 m4a   audio only      2 |     2.64MiB 130k https | audio only         mp4a.40.2  130k 44k medium, m4a_dash

Any insights as to why I'm getting that throttling, and why it's downloading m4a instead of opus? Is it even that much of a difference? Is there some option I can pass to yt-dlp to avoid this?

Any help is much appreciated!

🏴‍☠️ AHOY fellow pirates and welcome to the state of global piracy for June 2024! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️

Please let me know if you have ideas about interesting stats, I'll see if I can make it happen.

Enjoy the numbers!

• What is "The Scene"?
• What is a "PreDB"?
• What does "Nuked" mean?

TOTAL SCENE RELEASES BY SECTION

I have a total of 77 sections in my PreDB. The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview. Numbers in braces are the values from the previous month.

Total: 50.606 (56.641)

TOP 20 GROUPS WITH MOST RELEASES

The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview, same as above.

TOP 20 MOST NUKED GROUPS

• What does "Nuked" mean?

MOST NUKED SECTIONS

The sections in here are combined/simplified for a better overview, same as above.

ACCUMULATED RELEASE SIZE FOR June 2024

From the 50.606 scene releases, only 22.616 of them had file + size information.

They total to: 32.98 TB (34.586.959 MB) in 401 thousand files (401.229).

No idea about the size of the missing information, so the real value should be much higher.

ARCHIVES

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• February 2024
• January 2024
• Totals in 2023

NOTES

• Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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