Idea: Audio Mode

[andybut]

I don’t know how technically possible, but I suggest switching to sound playback mode without an image. I think that many, like me, put the browser in the background and listen to all kinds of blogs or music on the phone when they are on the road and cannot be distracted by images. However, traffic is consumed as when watching a video, which is inconvenient, especially when it comes to a mobile Internet. Is it possible to play only audio and save traffic? For the platform as a whole, this will be a huge plus.

[bedeho]

This is a super interesting idea, and I do the same all the time! we will def. need to consider this. The issue is that this would require the audio track to be extracted and uploaded separately, which is not something most uploaders will want to do. If it was fast to extract the audio track client side, then we could consider that.

[mochet]

I think this would be cool to have, but can we not enable uploads of MP3s etc? The audio could still require a thumbnail which can be shown in place of the video (as in you upload your .mp3 audio track as well as PNG thumbnail

[andybut]

how fast time flies. I thought I suggested it just recently). I don't know how it actually works with YouTube, but I found many solutions to such a problem. for example https://github.com/them0ntem/youtube-only-audio. you're right YouTube also stores an mp3 file next to the video, but it seems to me it's not very economical. Thanks for your attention 🙂

[traumschule]

Some users want this functionality:

$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-do6e0N90
[youtube] z1-do6e0N90: Downloading webpage
[youtube] z1-do6e0N90: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] Available formats for z1-do6e0N90:
format code  extension  resolution note
139          m4a        audio only DASH audio   51k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5 (22050Hz), 10.16MiB
251          webm       audio only tiny  107k , webm_dash container, opus @107k (48000Hz), 22.42MiB
140          m4a        audio only tiny  129k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@129k (44100Hz), 26.95MiB
278          webm       256x144    DASH video   95k , webm_dash container, vp9, 25fps, video only
160          mp4        256x144    DASH video  108k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d400b, 25fps, video only
242          webm       426x240    DASH video  220k , webm_dash container, vp9, 25fps, video only
133          mp4        426x240    DASH video  242k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d400c, 25fps, video only
134          mp4        640x360    360p   72k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d401e@  72k, 25fps, video only, 15.16MiB
243          webm       640x360    DASH video  405k , webm_dash container, vp9, 25fps, video only
244          webm       854x480    DASH video  752k , webm_dash container, vp9, 25fps, video only
135          mp4        854x480    DASH video 1155k , mp4_dash container, avc1.4d400a, 25fps, video only
136          mp4        1280x720   720p  208k , mp4_dash container, avc1.64001f@ 208k, 25fps, video only, 43.42MiB
247          webm       1280x720   DASH video 1505k , webm_dash container, vp9, 25fps, video only
137          mp4        1920x1080  1080p  412k , mp4_dash container, avc1.640028@ 412k, 25fps, video only, 85.86MiB
248          webm       1920x1080  DASH video 2646k , webm_dash container, vp9, 25fps, video only
18           mp4        640x360    360p  160k , avc1.42001E, 25fps, mp4a.40.2 (44100Hz), 33.47MiB
22           mp4        1280x720   720p  337k , avc1.64001F, 25fps, mp4a.40.2 (44100Hz) (best)
$ youtube-dl -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1-do6e0N90
[youtube] z1-do6e0N90: Downloading webpage
[youtube] z1-do6e0N90: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] Destination: Sub0 Online - Accelerate Your Builds With Cachepot-z1-do6e0N90.m4a
[download]   3.6% of 26.95MiB at 79.57KiB/s ETA 05:34