[Youtube] Support 256kbps aac audio in youtube music

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If provided url is youtube music, It will try get_video_info GET request with youtube music player parameter.

With cookie auth, Youtube premium member could download 256kbps aac audio in some supported music video. (Example: Megalovania)

[dstftw]

You must provide premium account.

[craftingmod]

Sadly youtube wouldn't allow to download 256kbps aac without premium subscription. But current youtube-dl couldn't download 256kbps aac even if I have provided yt premium account cookie. It fixes that.

[michealespinola]

You must provide premium account.

If it helps anyone, YouTube is currently offering a free month trial of Premium. I upgraded my account about a week ago, but I believe they are still offering the trial. No payment required until the first renewal date of 30 days.

[Shulyaka]

Hi!

If the free trial is not an option, I am willing to provide a donation to any of the core developers to cover premium subscription for a couple of months, if that would help with:

1. Downloading best quality audio from YouTube music
2. Search on YouTube music (like :ytsearch but on music.youtube.com). Note that it gives different results than searching on youtube.
3. Ensure logging in with netrc or --username works for YouTube music. Cookies are good, but they tend to expire.

[celloh123]

I can give my account info.

[FolkSong]

I tried manually making these changes to youtube.py in the latest master and running it. It still works but I noticed an issue - it doesn't work on playlists, only individual videos.

For instance I can run it on the Megalovania track linked in the OP and format 141 is there. But if I run it on this playlist with Megalovania at the top, there is no format 141.

Update: Looks like the issue is with line 1781 of the original commit. If I just set 'is_music' to 1 instead of doing the regex, it works on playlists. Something's going wrong with that regex test.

Update2: This is also breaking tags for the output file such as "%(artist)s", "%(album)s" etc which work in the master. They all evaluate to "NA" after making the change.

[Silun]

It supposedly works but the maintainers aren't adding it in.

[rautamiekka]

You must provide premium account.

If it helps anyone, YouTube is currently offering a free month trial of Premium. I upgraded my account about a week ago, but I believe they are still offering the trial. No payment required until the first renewal date of 30 days.

Plus, surely you can deactivate/cancel the auto-renewal right after taking up the trial, so you won't have to do it right before the auto-renewal proceeds.

[AndreasWidmer]

Is there any news on this? I would be really grateful for this option!

[ghost]

Is there any news on this? I would be really grateful for this option!

apply this commit to release of december 2020. and do #26160 (comment).
./youtube_dl/main.py --cookies cookies.txt -F https://music.youtube.com/watch\?v\={video_id}
you can see format 141

[craftingmod]

Please refer #28778 for future update because my pull request branch is taken down :(