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Lossless codecs #21249

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Qbsoon opened this issue May 29, 2019 · 2 comments
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Lossless codecs #21249

Qbsoon opened this issue May 29, 2019 · 2 comments

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@Qbsoon
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@Qbsoon Qbsoon commented May 29, 2019

  • I'm reporting a site feature request
  • I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.05.20
  • I've searched the bugtracker for similar site feature requests including closed ones

Hi!
I wanted to request feature of downloading audio in lossless codecs. I'm downloading music with --audio-format m4a, but then I have aac, but I'd like to have alac.
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@cfreds cfreds commented May 29, 2019 •
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We download audio m4a format because in YouTube is native. You cant download alls formats, only m4a and opus
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@dstftw dstftw commented Jun 7, 2019

You can't download in lossless format since Youtube only serves lossy.
@dstftw dstftw closed this Jun 7, 2019
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