#I need to extract everything and convert all to MP3 and then organise

[submalevolentgrace]

happy to help! i am… not very good at explaining tech stuff, but i will do my best, assuming that if you've got it installed you can use a desktop computer well enough, and hopefully some of it makes sense…

everything i learned and am using here is from the yt-dlp github documentation here, but i know it's a beast, so if i don't cover an option you want, it might be in there. also i use it on linux where i can just run "yt-dlp" from any folder and have it do its work in there (a folder for music, for essays, for video etc), if you're on windows with an executable, i suspect you'll have to run "yt-dlp.exe" in cmd instead; i've added subfolders to my example paths under that assumption that you can obviously mess with. the basic format is "yt-dlp -options https://youtubeurl.example/change_the_whole_url_here"

i'm also assuming that you've made some unlisted playlists on youtube (not private! or the program won't be able to scrape them), because you don't wanna be downloading one video at a time, and that you've given those playlists reasonably sensible titles. note that tumblr will add linebreaks, but the command is just all one line when you run it in a terminal. that said, here's 4 basic commands i use for my own use cases:

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 2 -o "music/%(playlist_title)s/%(channel)s %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s" --restrict-filenames https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID_HERE

this one is for downloading music, because there's a lot of stuff i listen to (wierd synth jams and remixes) that just aren't uploaded elsewhere, and everybody loves a good youtube to mp3 converter, so here's one that won't inject malware!

everything in the passed playlist will be downloaded as mp3. the -x option means it'll extract to audio only, no video. the next option encodes it properly into mp3. --audio-quality is how much it will compress it (0 is best, and 10 is worst), 2 here is good enough for my ears for music. the -o option does all the work for naming the file and putting it in a folder, based on the details of the video. the "%(word)s" is just scripting code that doesn't matter, as long as it's there, the bits around and inside it are what matter. the way its set up above is just my personal preference; everything will go into a folder titled "music", then a folder based on the playlist title you setup on youtube, then the file will be named with the youtube channel, video title, and the youtube video id will be inserted in square brackets (so that you can manually find the video again based on the filename if needed), then finally ext is just the file extension, mp3. finally, --restrict-filenames just converts any unusual unicode characters down to ascii and replaces spaces with underscores, to make sure the filnames appear sane to any music or video player you might pass the files to, regardless of filesystem or OS.

if i've lost you here with the -o option, i'd suggest to try running it on a small playlist with like 3 videos, and look at how the files are named compared to what's in the quote marks and the video details. you can then play around with it to get it setup how you like; i assume many people won't want the [%(id)s] bit, or with restrict-filenames, so you can snip them out. all the possible options you might want for -o are on the github page, under "output template".

next i'm showing an almost identical command most for illutration on how you can change -o and get a differently organised folder structure as a result, i use this for listenable stuff like video essays that i listen to to fall asleep:

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 8 -o "essays/%(channel)s/%(upload_date)s %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s" --restrict-filenames https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID_HERE

first of all, audio quality is lower (0 best, 10 worst) because it doesn't matter as much for voice as music, you can tweak to taste. the major difference is that in the -o option, channel is before a slash, and therefore it will create a different folder for each youtube channel in the playlist; so there's not one big mess of files. then inside each channel folder, the file will first have the upload date in ISO format, which means that sorting by filename will put them in upload order, useful for following anything in a series. then, video title, video id, and .mp3 at the end. btw the video id is the random-looking bit at the end of the URL on youtube after "watch?v=" that points to the actual video, "dQw4w9WgXcQ" for example.

next is the generic command i use for backing up videos, sorry it's 3rd down but i wanted to cover filenames earlier on:

yt-dlp --remux-video mp4 -S "height:480" -o "video/%(channel)s/%(upload_date)s %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s" --restrict-filenames https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID_HERE

so first, --remux-video will put it into the mp4 file container. i couldn't properly explain the difference between remuxing and reencoding if i tried, but i have sometimes found a video player will open a remuxed mp4 but not a webm file, and this doesn't affect filesize, so i use it. then, the -S option. in implementation it's used to sort through all the different video files youtube could possibly serve to you and pick which one to download and save. all the details are on the gihub under "sorting formats", but i've found that using the height option gives a decent filter on quality. 480p is good enough for my personal taste for offline backups, but i grew up in the torrented 200mb avi full movie era, so you might want higher. you could change the 480 to 720, 1080, or 2160 (for 4K) if you want, it's all about balancing quality with filesize, and thus backing up more. again, files will be sorted into folders for each channel, then ISO date, video name, id, and .mp4.

this last command i use is just a variant of the one above, but i have a different use case for it. rather than running it on a playlist i've made myself, i run it for already existing playlists on channels i watch a lot of. for example i like some grumpy letsplayers, and rather than having all their downloaded videos jumbled together in one folder, this command will create a folder for their channel, then extra subfolders for each playlist i run it on:

yt-dlp --remux-video mp4 -S "height:720" -o "video/%(channel)s/%(playlist_title)s/%(upload_date)s %(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s" --restrict-filenames https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAYLIST_ID_HERE

this way it keeps all the mario maker videos seperate from the kirby's dreamcourse videos, and so on, but still under a subfolder for that channel, with the same file format. i also upped the video size here to 720p, just to demonstrate what bit needs changing.

running these over and over again as you add new videos to download is probably going to be a pain in the arse, so you'll probably want to put them into a shell script (linux) or batch file (windows), or whatever mac does for this. on linux you can just paste and edit the command in a text editor, save as "example.sh", make executable in file properties, then run "./example.sh" in the terminal in the folder you want. on windows…. uhh, it's been a while and i've forgotten how to set up batch files correctly, but that's the search term you want to find out how. sorry mac people i got nothing.

worth noting is that for repeat runs of the same command, anything you've already downloaded will be skipped over, just downloading new things added to the playlist… as long as you've kept the -o option the same, and the video/channel title hasn't changed (at one point i had 12 copies of that tom scott video that keeps changing the title to include the viewcount…)

and one last thing! if you're making playlists on youtube for huge amounts of videos (my sleepy essays playlist is approaching 2000 videos), it will get awkward and clunky fast. i highly recommend using browswer extensions to make it easier, i use a firefox addon called "multiselect for youtube" by "pollux" to make it easier to batch add videos to playlists, and if you're not using firefox you should be. we're stealing from google here, not giving them our data (and yes, brave is built on chromium too)

so that's it. hopefully it's been somewhat helpful despite my bad explaining, there are definitely other options for batch downloading available, this is just the one i settled on as smoothest at my knowledge level and scale. if anyone has noticed an error or typo, oh gods please let me know ASAP incase this spreads and i can never correct it! otherwise have fun backing up stuff and getting around adblock, fuck google and alphabet, they should have lived by "don't be evil", and never rely on streaming or cloud storage for anything you don't want to lose!

youtube/google is getting much more aggressive about trying to shut down adblockers, part of which is them taking bullying legal action against a project called "invidious.io", which is an open source free frontend that can run in a browser or app and lets you watch youtube without ads and even all the google tracking analytics, sure would be a shame if lots more learned about such an option and started using it huh

[pinkydude]

Never Fade Away 

(Version that plays during The Devil ending) (Instrumental only)

Oh this fucked me up so bad I had to upload it here I-

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