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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon nukeop

Save songs in audio format instead of video

Open JamesClarke7283 opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

Songs should be in formats such as mp3,ogg,opus when downloaded. We don't need the song video/webm file for a song. just the audio counterpart.

JamesClarke7283 avatar Mar 20 '22 10:03 JamesClarke7283

Webm is just a container format, what is inside is only audio. When searching for streams on youtube, Nuclear rejects all streams that contain more than audio. It lets you select audio-only formats, and we only pick the one with the highest available quality.

nukeop avatar Mar 20 '22 20:03 nukeop

Webm is just a container format, what is inside is only audio. When searching for streams on youtube, Nuclear rejects all streams that contain more than audio. It lets you select audio-only formats, and we only pick the one with the highest available quality.

This causes problems, because when i copy the music to my phone, most music players do not index it. Maybe you could convert it to a pattent free format(like you did with video format webm) such as opus/ogg, which is audio. or use FLAC(which is uncompressed, and you dont lose quality as its lossless)

JamesClarke7283 avatar Mar 21 '22 08:03 JamesClarke7283

Transcoding is on the to-do list, but it introduces a lot of problems (mainly related to bundling ffmpeg on different platforms and reducing quality).

nukeop avatar Mar 21 '22 14:03 nukeop

Transcoding is on the to-do list, but it introduces a lot of problems (mainly related to bundling ffmpeg on different platforms and reducing quality).

I am glad its being worked on. Also, with FLAC i think you won't lose quality as its lossless. I may be wrong about trans-coding to FLAC reducing quality.

JamesClarke7283 avatar Mar 22 '22 20:03 JamesClarke7283

There's no source yet that downloads FLAC though. They all use lossy compression.

nukeop avatar Mar 23 '22 00:03 nukeop

I´d like to see if possible using premium account (YT Music or Spotify - depends on what Nuclear are running atm.) To grab and save the best quality.

TommyHrablo avatar Jan 16 '23 20:01 TommyHrablo

Like I said in the other thread, this would require access to youtube API, which implies having a youtube account and a registered "app". No go.

nukeop avatar Jan 16 '23 23:01 nukeop

Like I said in the other thread, this would require access to youtube API, which implies having a youtube account and a registered "app". No go.

Thank you for your answer and explanation

TommyHrablo avatar Jan 18 '23 11:01 TommyHrablo