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It varies based on the age of the video, newer ones do indeed have separate audio downloads. You can force audio only with

yt-dlp -f bestaudio <url>

This will cause the script to only consider audio-only formats, if bandwidth is a concern. However, how it decides which one is “best” is beyond me. For example, I tried one video and got a webm that contains only an audio track:

~ $ yt-dlp -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
[download] Destination: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/movies/ytdl/20091025__Rick_Astley_-_Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up_Official_Music_Video.webm
[download] 100% of    3.28MiB in 00:00:00 at 6.91MiB/s

yt-dlp can just download the audio. It usually comes down in m4a at quality that I would describe as “very listenable”. So only the first of those three steps are mandatory if you do it that way.

yt-dlp -x <url>

Same here. I occasionally try other clients, but qB is the one I always end up going back to, mostly because it automagically blocks hosts that send garbage.

If you’re on desktop, look at the right hand side of your screen, scroll down a little, and click the link that says “Megathread”.

If you’re on mobile, tap the ⋮ in the top-right of the Piracy community, then tap Community Info. Scroll down a little, and tap the link that says “Megathread”.

It’s also the first link in the pinned post in the community.

Not an answer, but just to cover the bases:

I use https://audiobookbay.li/ but, as you say, it can be a bit unreliable, especially if the book isn’t recent.

There’s https://tokybook.com/ (from the Megathread) but its selection is somewhat lacking too.

From the old Megathread: “These are not recommended on this subreddit as trusted sites for various reasons, but the main reasons why igg-games is not recommended is due to their history of shady behavior”

Right now, the list of quarantined domains appears to be empty.

You can view it for yourself by following the instructions in the article, or briefly, go to about:config and search for “quarantined”.

You’re absolutely right, thanks :)

Just gonna throw https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe into the discussion - which is NewPipe, with extra features.

It doesn’t look all that silent to me.

Doesn’t look all that silent to me?

My own personal line in the sand is what Wikipedia calls “the sixth generation”: Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Gamecube, Sony PS2, Microsoft Xbox. They’re “retro” to me. Starting from the seventh generation, there was a noticeable bump in the ability for systems to churn out relatively-realistic graphics, with the PS3 and Xbox 360 leading the way, and the Wii embracing its delightfully-modern cartoony style.

No love for WCW nWo Revenge? I remember sinking so many hours into that when I was growing up.

Honestly, even as a Windows 11 user, the Films & TV app is the only way I’ve ever found. You could try youtube-dl but it’s unlikely to be able to bypass their DRM even if you can find a direct download link. I’d just go ahead and download it from another source, you already paid for it, you have the right to watch it IMHO.

Of particular note: This is the last version that will support macOS 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), and 10.14 (Mojave). They’ll get an extended support release of Firefox 115 that’ll receive security updates for ~1 year. Source: mozilla.org

Why did they send you a save icon?

/joke

I use Download Navi (F-Droid, Play).

I hear good things about Advanced Download Manager (Play) too.

Music piracy is doing just fine, it’s just that the balance of opinion seems to be that M4A is fine. You can even download M4A files from YouTube nowadays.

No, it’s lemmy.blahaj.zone. :)

Can’t downvote, and downvotes don’t affect my experience in any way. Top is sorted by raw upvotes. If someone downvotes, it’s the same as if they didn’t vote at all to me.

I love it!