OT Question on audio downloads from youtube

[Chris Brady]

Its called entropy in science. If you convert say a WAV or LAC to MP3
you will loose a lot of data as the file is comressed. You will lose
the high frequences. That's what YouTube does. The sound will be
muddy. If you convert from MP3 to FLAC or WAV the sound will still be
muddy. Data once removed or compressed away will never come back. This
is my gripe with Dimeadozen which insists not only that uploaders
convert bad formats aka MP3 to FLAC, these latter files are then
uploaded masquerading as hi quality recordings. Whereas they are just
crap MP3s in an unstable format.

Folks here could usefully join the "Association for Recorded Sound
Discussion List" at <ARSCLIST at listserv.loc.gov> The guys on this are
professional restorers from audio libraries around the world including
the Library of Congress.

CJB

On 22/09/2020, Chris Brady <chrisjbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another link
>
> https://appuals.com/why-converting-youtube-to-320kbps-mp3-is-a-waste-of-time/
>
> CJB
>
> On 22/09/2020, Chris Brady <chrisjbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try
>>
>> https://superuser.com/questions/846842/how-to-get-best-quality-audio-using-youtube-dl
>>
>> CJB
>>
>> On 21/09/2020, budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Please forgive the OT question but I am seeking advice on sensible
>>> download format for saving the audio from youtube videos which are
>>> available to supplement specific items from my early music collection.
>>>
>>> My preferred solution is to download the audio using youtube-dl and I
>>> know I could then encode the file as a flac file but this creates huge
>>> files, albeit lossless, so my question is, is there any point in doing
>>> this if the initial audio quality is limited by the youtube video
>>> recording system bit rate?  Also, as a more senior citizen, I believe I
>>> am unlikely to be able to hear the difference between the flac and other
>>> options.
>>>
>>> I know there are members in this group who have significant knowledge
>>> and experience in these matters and I am hoping for suggestions for the
>>> best format for my purposes.
>>>
>>> Budge.
>>>
>>>
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Freelance Investigative Journalist - re:
Rogue Leasehold / Managing / Letting / Estate Agents