4K YouTube to MP3 problem

I am using 4K YouTube to MP3. Everytime I paste a download link, I get an error.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,
Andy

On 18/03/2020 21:22, AK wrote:

Anyone know why?


Because you are not intelligent enough to use something else.




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On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:22:47, AK wrote:
I am using 4K YouTube to MP3. Everytime I paste a download link, I get
an error.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,
Andy

Tell us more about this "4K YouTube to MP3" (such as where you got it).
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:22:47 -0700 (PDT), AK
wrote:

I am using 4K YouTube to MP3. Everytime I paste a download link, I get an error.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,
Andy

Why not just use something like Total Recorder and clip it right off
your PC sound card?

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 14:22:47, AK wrote:
I am using 4K YouTube to MP3. Everytime I paste a download link, I get
an error.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,
Andy

Tell us more about this "4K YouTube to MP3" (such as where you got it).

Don't forget your hip waders and rubber gloves, John.

https://www.4kdownload.com/howto/how...youtube-to-mp3

The whole site looks like "professionally applied cake icing".

I'd be checking that on virustotal a time or two.

Paul

AK wrote:
I am using 4K YouTube to MP3. Everytime I paste a download link, I get an error.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,
Andy

What does the error message look like ?

Take a screenshot of it, so you can study it later.

Paul

On Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 10:16:54 AM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
AK wrote:
I am using 4K YouTube to MP3. Everytime I paste a download link, I get an error.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,
Andy

What does the error message look like ?

Take a screenshot of it, so you can study it later.

Paul

I found and used a program called youtube-dl.

It uses the command line to download videos.

Andy

AK wrote:
....
I found and used a program called youtube-dl.

It uses the command line to download videos.

Ditto. Open source, free, and get frequent updates.
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Ant wrote:
AK wrote:
...
I found and used a program called youtube-dl.

It uses the command line to download videos.

Ditto. Open source, free, and get frequent updates.

Yes, that's the correct one to use.

If you need post-processing, the command line FFMPEG
can do it. It is the basis of many other GUI tools.
There is FFMPEG and libAV as the two engines used,
and for me, FFMPEG works.

This is where I get my FFMPEG. I select "static" because
all the DLLs are inside the EXE file. It's neat and tidy.
Note that version 4.x.x is suitable for Vista thru Windows 10,
but for Windows XP, you (may) need something from the
version 3 stream. I don't carry out a lot of testing,
to determine if 4.x.x is broken in WinXP or not.

https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

If you need a Windows XP version of FFMPEG, try this.

For example, 3.4.2 , Windows 32 , Static

https://web.archive.org/web/20180408...oe.com/builds/

45,708,063 bytes

https://web.archive.org/web/20180408...n32-static.zip

It takes time to work up command line invocations for
ffmpeg.

If you include FFMPEG in your %path%, then youtube-dl might
access it and carry out conversions, such as multiplexing
best audio with best video, to make the best possible
video file.

You can also use VLC for certain conversion functions. It's
more than a video viewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player

HTH,
Paul

On Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 7:05:48 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
AK wrote:
...
I found and used a program called youtube-dl.

It uses the command line to download videos.

Ditto. Open source, free, and get frequent updates.

Yes, that's the correct one to use.

If you need post-processing, the command line FFMPEG
can do it. It is the basis of many other GUI tools.
There is FFMPEG and libAV as the two engines used,
and for me, FFMPEG works.

This is where I get my FFMPEG. I select "static" because
all the DLLs are inside the EXE file. It's neat and tidy.
Note that version 4.x.x is suitable for Vista thru Windows 10,
but for Windows XP, you (may) need something from the
version 3 stream. I don't carry out a lot of testing,
to determine if 4.x.x is broken in WinXP or not.

https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

If you need a Windows XP version of FFMPEG, try this.

For example, 3.4.2 , Windows 32 , Static

https://web.archive.org/web/20180408...oe.com/builds/

45,708,063 bytes

https://web.archive.org/web/20180408...n32-static.zip

It takes time to work up command line invocations for
ffmpeg.

If you include FFMPEG in your %path%, then youtube-dl might
access it and carry out conversions, such as multiplexing
best audio with best video, to make the best possible
video file.

You can also use VLC for certain conversion functions. It's
more than a video viewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player

HTH,
Paul

This is what I used.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB0CivK9LTw

Andy

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 08:20:59, AK wrote:
[]
This is what I used.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB0CivK9LTw

Andy

Does youtube-dl have its own mp3 encoder built in, or does the above
only work if one of the formats on offer from the originating site
actually is (or contains) .mp3?

I often download videos (with youtube-dl or [a very old version of]
DownloadHelper, which I use first but it doesn't always work), if I want
the video; to get the audio out of them to play on my car player, I use
a post-processor (Pazera - an ffmpeg wrapper, I think). One of its
options is something like "try extract original audio stream", which I
usually try, but it's nearly always .m4a (I think it's only once been
..mp3).
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On Friday, March 20, 2020 at 6:51:15 PM UTC-5, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 08:20:59, AK wrote:
[]
This is what I used.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB0CivK9LTw

Andy

Does youtube-dl have its own mp3 encoder built in, or does the above
only work if one of the formats on offer from the originating site
actually is (or contains) .mp3?

I often download videos (with youtube-dl or [a very old version of]
DownloadHelper, which I use first but it doesn't always work), if I want
the video; to get the audio out of them to play on my car player, I use
a post-processor (Pazera - an ffmpeg wrapper, I think). One of its
options is something like "try extract original audio stream", which I
usually try, but it's nearly always .m4a (I think it's only once been
.mp3).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I don't have an agree that our language torture is a quality add
- soldiersailor on Gransnet, 2018-3-8

Yes it does have its own decoder.

--audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac", "flac", "mp3", "m4a", "opus","vorbis", or "wav"; "best" by default; No effect without -x

On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 20:20:30, AK wrote:
On Friday, March 20, 2020 at 6:51:15 PM UTC-5, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 08:20:59, AK wrote:
[]
This is what I used.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB0CivK9LTw

Andy

Does youtube-dl have its own mp3 encoder built in, or does the above
only work if one of the formats on offer from the originating site
actually is (or contains) .mp3?

I often download videos (with youtube-dl or [a very old version of]
DownloadHelper, which I use first but it doesn't always work), if I want
the video; to get the audio out of them to play on my car player, I use
a post-processor (Pazera - an ffmpeg wrapper, I think). One of its
options is something like "try extract original audio stream", which I
usually try, but it's nearly always .m4a (I think it's only once been
.mp3).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I don't have an agree that our language torture is a quality add
- soldiersailor on Gransnet, 2018-3-8

Yes it does have its own decoder.

--audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac",
"flac", "mp3", "m4a", "opus","vorbis", or "wav"; "best" by default; No
effect without -x

So that would be an ENcoder? I. e., it could generate an .mp3 file even
if none of the formats actually being offered on the original site
either were MP3 or a video format that contains mp3?
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tree, you might easily end up anywhere. - Alexander Armstrong, RT 2014/8/23-29

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 20:20:30, AK wrote:
On Friday, March 20, 2020 at 6:51:15 PM UTC-5, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 08:20:59, AK wrote:
[]
This is what I used.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB0CivK9LTw

Andy

Does youtube-dl have its own mp3 encoder built in, or does the above
only work if one of the formats on offer from the originating site
actually is (or contains) .mp3?

I often download videos (with youtube-dl or [a very old version of]
DownloadHelper, which I use first but it doesn't always work), if I want
the video; to get the audio out of them to play on my car player, I use
a post-processor (Pazera - an ffmpeg wrapper, I think). One of its
options is something like "try extract original audio stream", which I
usually try, but it's nearly always .m4a (I think it's only once been
.mp3).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I don't have an agree that our language torture is a quality add
- soldiersailor on Gransnet, 2018-3-8

Yes it does have its own decoder.

--audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best", "aac",
"flac", "mp3", "m4a", "opus","vorbis", or "wav"; "best" by default; No
effect without -x

So that would be an ENcoder? I. e., it could generate an .mp3 file even
if none of the formats actually being offered on the original site
either were MP3 or a video format that contains mp3?

https://www.videohelp.com/software/youtube-dl

"make a folder for youtube-dl and ffmpeg,

and append the folder name to your system PATH variable

(google for how to add a path to your PATH environment variable).

Now you can run youtube-dl in any directory where you
launch the command prompt window."

It uses FFMPEG as a helper, but, it must be locate-able
at the time of application.

The download package is not big enough to include a copy
of full FFMPEG binary. You can get one from zeranoe.
Versioh 3 for WinXP. Version 4 for an OS like Win7.

FFMPEG can mux or demux, as well as convert to a
different CODEC and Container format.

Paul

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 07:41:49, Paul wrote:
[]
Yes it does have its own decoder.

--audio-format FORMAT Specify audio format: "best",
"aac", "flac", "mp3", "m4a", "opus","vorbis", or "wav"; "best" by
default; No effect without -x
So that would be an ENcoder? I. e., it could generate an .mp3 file
even if none of the formats actually being offered on the original
site either were MP3 or a video format that contains mp3?

https://www.videohelp.com/software/youtube-dl

"make a folder for youtube-dl and ffmpeg,

and append the folder name to your system PATH variable

(google for how to add a path to your PATH environment variable).

Now you can run youtube-dl in any directory where you
launch the command prompt window."

It uses FFMPEG as a helper, but, it must be locate-able
at the time of application.

The download package is not big enough to include a copy
of full FFMPEG binary. You can get one from zeranoe.
Versioh 3 for WinXP. Version 4 for an OS like Win7.

FFMPEG can mux or demux, as well as convert to a
different CODEC and Container format.

Paul

Thanks. So youtube-dl itself _doesn't_ have an MP3 encoder (or
transcoder) inside, but the ubiquitous ffmpeg can be used with it,
fairly transparently once installed.
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