How would one rip an entire Youtube channel/playlist to MP3s?

youtube-dl. If I recall correctly it can handle playlists, not sure about channels.

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 2 

ps. youtube doesn't use mp3, don't convert to mp3, that's dumb

>>57349606
jdownloader

Alright, thanks everyone.

>>57349670

What audio format would be optimal, if that's the case?

>>57349737
160k opus is the best format youtube provides

just use "youtube-dl -f bestaudio <url>", it'll pick the best available audio stream and download it as-is

>>57349768

Thanks!

I have seen YouTube-DL posted before but it uses the command line. Is there a GUI version for windows?

>>57349818
what kind of gui would you expect?

>>57349836
Any

>>57349818
There's really no need at all, it's easy enough through the command line.
I have a simple BASH script for selecting formats rather than viewing the list manually, someone who has Windows could probably easily rewrite it in batch.

#!/bin/sh
answer=""
tput clear
echo "Give the YouTube URL: \c"
# Paste video URL
read answer
# Lists possible qualities
youtube-dl -F $answer
# Select quality choice
echo "Select Quality or enter 99 to quit: \c"
read qual

# If 99 (quit) not selected, proceed to download
if [ $qual -ne 99 ]
then
# Edit this line to select correct output
youtube-dl -f $qual -o "~/Movies/YouTube/%(title)s.%(ext)s" $answer

# If 99 was selected, quit
else
exit 0
fi

>>57349920
or you can write your preferences as a set of rules, so what you would have picked is picked automatically

for example;

0/(bestvideo[vcodec=vp9][fps>=50]/bestvideo[fps>=50]/bestvideo)[height<=1080][tbr<5000][protocol!=http_dash_segments]+(bestaudio[acodec=opus]/bestaudio[ext=webm]/bestaudio)/best

>>57350000
DEM QUADS

>>57350015
k

youtube-dl automatically adds the URL to the filename and I don't want that. Couldn't seem to find the option to remove that in the readme or help. Anyone know what that is? I just want the filename to be the exact title of the video.

>>57350073

RTFM

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#readme

>>57350103

see

>>57350073
>Couldn't seem to find the option to remove that in the readme or help.

I already read through it and couldn't locate that option.

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>>57349920
>this "script"

>>57350135

You need to read better.

The option is --output.
You will need to read the documentation to use it properly though, do back to square one : RTFM.

>>57350167

Alright, got it. Added this and it worked.

-o %(title)s.%(ext)s

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798KB, 1920x1080px

>>57349818
You don't need gui version. You can download youtube-dl from chocolatey:
@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"
(just type this in cmd with admin rights)