On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:56:45PM +0100, budge wrote: > Please forgive the OT question but I am seeking advice on sensible > download format for saving the audio from youtube videos which are > available to supplement specific items from my early music collection. > > My preferred solution is to download the audio using youtube-dl and I > know I could then encode the file as a flac file but this creates huge > files, albeit lossless ...
FLAC is a lossless format, true, but if you're starting with lossily-encoded data in m4a or mp3 format like what youtube gives you then you won't gain anything, the data has already been lost. > Also, as a more senior citizen, I believe I > am unlikely to be able to hear the difference between the flac and other > options. Even for people with fully functional ears the difference between a decent mp3 or m4a and lossless is imperceptible. The only reason for archiving stuff in flac is so that you can produce whatever the flavour-of-the-decade is in the future when mp3 and m4a have gone out of fashion, without re-encoding an already lossy file and losing more. Re-encoding a lossy file to another lossy format is *very* noticeable. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer