r/youtubedl

I'm trying to figure out what is the best format to use when downloading music off YT. for available formats, for audio there seem to only be available 139/249/140/251. 249/251 is only .webm. So only 139/140 for m4a. The 140 seems to be 128kbps. While I can't see in winamp, I believe this gives 44100HZ

The --audio-format mp3 seems to be VBR kbps (around 130-140), and also shows 48000HZ.

The difference in size seems to be 4-5% higher for mp3. m4a seems to be as compatible as the mp3. While it's only a few kbyts difference, when you have a few thousand audio files, the space difference can start to become significant, my opinion anyway.

So, which one would you use?

Thanks

Whenever I download a youtube video individually or together from a playlist it just doesn't show up in the allocated download folder. The folder contains 2 of those specific video file with its title name and size of only 0b The downloading process always goes smoothly like 0 errors

In my use of this application I didn't find any issue before

I'm using the latest version of Stacher, up to date with the yt-dlp versions you can download within it, but for about the last week, when I've tried to download playlists, it gives me a 403 error?

Individual videos download just fine, but playlists will error out.