A Youtube channel for My RnB heads: a lot of unreleased albums

[Sinnerman]

 

[Threnody]

Yo son got that second Shazzy album I heard it was bad but damn

I still have the first one on tape that one was pretty decent but Dante Ross broke it down how she was so wack they had to do studio magic to make the album sound good Dante said she was super garbage and a total bytch

 

[Nero Christ]

For my hoarders, rip these before it gets shut down

thread should also be moved to JBO so lurkers can't see & report

 

[Blessings]

excellent find. I wish I could find these in raw FLAC format because uploading them on youtube surely degraded the sound quality, let alone downloading them (which further chips away at the quality since the downloads are lossy).

Let me download the entire channel in FLAC instead and then keep what I like.

For those on linux, you can do that by using the `youtube-dl` commandline app with the following command:

youtube-dl -x --audio-format flac https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_fuGxbnUpQ41FNNMdijj1w

This will download all 115 videos as FLAC audio files. You can replace the `flac` in the command with `mp3` if thats the format you prefer.

1) there’s a GUI version of YouTube-DL
youtube-dlg

2) Downloading a compresses video from YouTube in FLAC is not true FLAC
Fakin' The Funk? - Detect the true quality of your audio files in one batch.

There are apps like Fakin’ The Funk that detect the true quality of the audio files


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I remember downloading some of those albums back in 2006 lol



I’m pretty sure I have some obscure grouprip R&B releases from back then like Razor advance/LP

 

[Swahili P'Bitek]

Her first two albums were really good. Wonder what happened.

This track off the album was

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

1) there’s a GUI version of YouTube-DL
youtube-dlg

2) Downloading a compresses video from YouTube in FLAC is not true FLAC
Fakin' The Funk? - Detect the true quality of your audio files in one batch.

There are apps like Fakin’ The Funk that detect the true quality of the audio files


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I remember downloading some of those albums back in 2006 lol



I’m pretty sure I have some obscure grouprip R&B releases from back then like Razor advance/LP

I am aware of the gui youtube-dl, I just dont see the point of using it when I stay in the commandline 95% of the time. Also I believe you're mistaken here about FLAC. FLAC is just an audio format, it does not say anything about music quality. All FLAC does it losslessly store music data from whatever source it came from. Storing a downloaded youtube audio in FLAC simply means that the exact audio stream from the highest available quality in the youtube video will be stored untouched. Downloading a youtube video in lossless format like mp3 is counterintuitive because the audio was uploaded using a lossy format and now YOU are downloading it again in another lossy format, further degrading its audio stream. The best way to download the youtube audio is using a lossless audio format like FLAC to minimize any further loss of quality. FLAC here is again just a container, I could have used any other lossless audio format like ALAC or WAV

 

[neomerge]

Gonna get freaky to some unreleased rnb.

 

[Big Boss]

dope

 

[KingsOfKings]

Props.

 

[edzyy]

Man, you would be surprised at how much unreleased R&B is out there.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[Malcy86]

Another channel well worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/@deejayearflip

 

[shopant]

Another channel well worth a look.

https://www.youtube.com/@deejayearflip

One more dope and well organized channel.

https://youtube.com/@babysnoop31

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Damn im surprised its still up
Might need to download all of them again since I no longer use that old drive which had the albums I got the first time.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

I am aware of the gui youtube-dl, I just dont see the point of using it when I stay in the commandline 95% of the time. Also I believe you're mistaken here about FLAC. FLAC is just an audio format, it does not say anything about music quality. All FLAC does it losslessly store music data from whatever source it came from. Storing a downloaded youtube audio in FLAC simply means that the exact audio stream from the highest available quality in the youtube video will be stored untouched. Downloading a youtube video in lossless format like mp3 is counterintuitive because the audio was uploaded using a lossy format and now YOU are downloading it again in another lossy format, further degrading its audio stream. The best way to download the youtube audio is using a lossless audio format like FLAC to minimize any further loss of quality. FLAC here is again just a container, I could have used any other lossless audio format like ALAC or WAV

Also to update on the above comment: I later learnt that youtube stores all audio that is uploaded as Opus audio files, which have a .opus extension. This means that the .opus file in the video is technically the "best" audio quality you can get of the upload video. So when using youtube-dl to extract the audio from youtube videos, it is not necessary to use FLAC as storage container since the opus file is the real audio quality stored in the youtube video. So, its enough to just extract the Opus audio stream and save space since the file size will be much smaller than transcoding to FLAC. Most players can play .opus files in 2023 with no problem. The updated command would be:

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format best --audio-quality 0 --add-metadata --xattrs --embed-thumbnail https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_fuGxbnUpQ41FNNMdijj1w

A rep would be appreciated if you found this useful