A quick tips on how to download stuff from Youtube, using yt-dlp.

Setup: run sudo snap install yt-dlp to get the downloader.

To download audio, run yt-dlp -f bestaudio -x "URL":

• -f bestaudio picks the highest quality audio format
• -x drops video
• Not using --audio-format to avoid lossy-to-lossy re-encoding, keeping the original quality.

More documentation:

• yt-dlp homepage
• ytdlp -h