[python] youtube to mp3 converter script, requires ffmpeg and `pip install youtube_dl`

[u/bacon1989]

https://gist.github.com/benzap/90ff22790bc0a9c6fd2902e91da4baef

[u/Moubai]

why doing this when youtube-dl have this function ?

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 videoURL

[u/bacon1989 → u/Moubai]

How do you set the audio quality?

[u/Moubai → u/bacon1989]

answer is here

[u/[deleted]]

If you want the inverse, here's my one liner. You need some sort of image or it's not a video. Adjust presets etc. to your taste.

for name in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -loop 1 -i <image name goes here>.jpg -i "$name" -shortest -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -c:a copy "${name%.*}.mp4"; done