People are not going to respect you as a DJ if you are going to play poor quality files. The shenanigans need to stop or you will end up sounding embarrassed. All your tracks must have the same quality so as to not offset the balance of your DJ set. But, people will feel the difference when you have good quality music. An average audience with untrained ears might not make out the difference. The sound quality might be appalling for your audience, which doesn’t want it that way right. If you are playing good quality music people will leave satisfied. It may sound good at home and your headphones but when you go to a club environment or bigger sound systems it’s not going to live up to its full standard. Chances are you are ripping from a lossy format video which you have downloaded and transcoded the file to even worse sounding MP3. To get the URL of a playlist, click on its name when the playlist is being displayed in the right sidebar.Playing songs that were ripped from Youtube just sounds bad as you are pulling out a lesser compressed audio file. It is typically in the following format:

The main thing is to get the URL of the playlist here. Destination: Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.mp3ĭeleting original file Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a (pass -k to keep) Download entire YouTube playlist in MP3 format Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a has already been downloaded You can see that it uses ffmpeg to convert the m4a file into mp3. Here’s the same example I showed previously. You can use it like this: youtube-dl -x -audio-format mp3 video_URL Say you want to extract the audio in MP3 format. You may specify the audio format to something of your choice. Post-process file Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a exists, skippingĭid you notice the audio format? It is in. Correcting container in 'Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a' Destination: Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a Here’s an example where I downloaded the voice-over of our Zorin OS 16 review video.

The file is saved in the same directory from where you ran the youtube-dl command. This extract-audio option converts the video files to audio-only files. If you only want to download audio from a YouTube video, you can use the -x option with youtube-dl. Please make sure that you have installed youtube-dl on your Linux distribution first. It’s up to you if you choose to download videos or audio. Downloading videos from websites could be against their policies.

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