Last Updated: March 08, 2016
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Downloading YouTube Videos and then Stripping Their Video

The result being an m4a (AAC) audio file that you can then play in whatever player you like (including Google Music).

Pre-requisites:

brew install ffmpeg youtube-dl

Then:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmcRrFj8Tb0 --output - | ffmpeg -i - -codec:a copy out.m4a

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It really useful ???

over 1 year ago ·

There's no need to pipe to ffmpeg, as youtube-dl can extract audio directly:

youtube-dl dmcRrFj8Tb0 --extract-audio --audio-format m4a
over 1 year ago ·