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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

YouTube uses Opus 160kbps which is decent enough. YouTube also allows uploading videos with lossless audio.

So it's more about what happens with the audio before it gets to YouTube. Someone uploads a video clip with 128kbps AAC, YouTube re-encodes it to Opus160, someone downloads it as 160kbps MP3, makes a lyrics video and whatever tool they used makes it into 96kbps Vorbis, it gets put on YouTube, Opus160 again, you download it as whatever bitrate MP3 again and it sounds like shit.

Just an example, there may be way more lossy re-encode generations going on.
It's more about the generations rather than YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dunno', I hear a distinct difference between any YouTube video and the CD, even ones posted by the artists or labels directly.

Though I do not pay for YouTube premium and never will, so maybe it's better if you pay the beast.

Either way, fuck the beast. ... and not in a good way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

i believe the youtube to mp3 thing isabout downloading it using yt-dlp or something, not yt premium downloads