I’m super lazy and can’t be bothered manually converting each one, is there any good tools/sites I can use to convert the whole playlist? I used to use youtube-DLG but it seems to have stopped working.

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Please don’t convert to mp3. YouTube’s quality already isn’t great, you don’t need further compression.

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What alternatives do you suggest?

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By all means download from YouTube, just don’t convert to MP3.

If you want higher quality then there are tools for downloading from Deezer and Qobuz.

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Why would you want to convert to mp3? This ain’t 2003, there’s way better formats to use than that.

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There might be, but as a standard mp3 is by far the most cross compatible format on any device. Plus, if you feel like it later you can just create a program to convert all the mp3 files into other formats.

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OOG Vorbis has been around for years, what device are you imagining that can’t play it? A Zune?

Likely they are putting it on mobile phone, and both major OSes can handle those files.

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My phone will play .ogg with VLC, but the little bar that tracks song progress is broken, same with .opus. .flac works but phone manufacturers have decided I don’t need storage space and I instead need their cloud, which I refuse to use, so .mp3 it is.

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you’re probably right about that, i never thought of it that way!

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Can you give some examples to read up on?

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Depends on whether you want lossless or lossy. For lossy, OOG Vorbis is the way to go if you want to support open source. If you don’t care about that, WMA is a proprietary format alternative. Both WMA and Vorbis have better quality than MP3, with equivalent file sizes. I use Vorbis myself, because it’s free.

If you want lossless, idk, because I don’t fuck with that.

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Just a small question let us say i wanted to convert all of my mp3 files into oog or wma. Will i loose some quality or it is fine (my files are around 128kbps)??? Because better quality for same size seems like a switch i would do. (I will convert with AIMP)

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Because the first audio format I think of is mp3, that’s literally it.

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I use Podsync for turning YouTube channels into podcasts

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Seal app on Android

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And you can add -x to only download the audio.

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