shout out to whatever licensing deals have lead to all those automated "[artist] - topic" channels on youtube filled with clean uploads of songs. makes it extremely easy to download old anime openings in high quality using a youtube to mp3 converter lmao
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yeaaah, and i think youtube music is to thank for this - which is a great way to find versions of album playlists without music videos replacing some entries in the playlist (or otherwise annoyingly inaccessible thru the regular youtube frontend). if you go to music.youtube.com, find the album, then remove the music. from the url, it'll take you to a "clean" album playlist, which is often unlisted on the regular youtube site. used it countless times
I believe it's something DistroKid does, given the ubiquity of both the topic channels & DistroKids usage.
Yep it's this ^ I used to upload my music to streaming with DistroKid, and YouTube is one of the big options you can choose along with Spotify and etc, and they upload the music in that exact format. I'm sure the artists/labels aren't all using DK specifically, but I imagine a lot of streaming/online shop distribution services also include uploading to YT.
I get what you're saying but as a guy who gets weird about lossy transcoding I use yt-dlp to get the video file and then mkvextract (could probably use ffmpeg but mkvextract has a very simple and effective gui) to strip the audio stream from the webm, which is going to be in ogg-opus format. That will give you the exact audio that they play on youtube, with no loss in quality from converting to mp3.
Probably not feasible on mobile, though (especially since not every mobile player supports opus, alas)!
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