pydub VS yt-dlp

Honestly while, C++ is used for professional audio software, you can get a lot done with python and a library like pydub, or you can even learn to manipulate audio files without any libraries in any language. So if you are not particulary interested in C++ at the moment you can start with Python, which is easier to learn. You can check out other python audio manipulation libraries here

I doubt it will matter if you're breaking up mid sentence if you pass in the previous as a prompt and split words. This is how Whisper does it internally.

It's not absolutely perfect, but splitting on the word boundary is one line of code with the same package in their docs: https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/blob/master/API.markdown#sil...

25MB is also a lot. That's 30 minutes to an hour on MP3 at reasonable compression. A 2 hour movie would have three splits.

Even given an option it can be difficult to find the corresponding documentation, if only because of the many different submodules and encoders and decoders and filters that have o-so-slightly different options. That said, I've just switched from pydub to ffmpeg-python (due to memory issues of the former[1]) and judging from the Jupiter notebook[2] it seems a much more intuitive method of constructing ffmpeg pipelines.

[1] https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/issues/135

[2] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/tree/master/examp...

With the file downloaded, we're now going to arbitrarily slice it locally (you might have considered wheter it is possible to simply download a clip from youtube; all reliable methods I've found will essentially boil down to downloading the whole and then editing locally). For that we'll use the pydub library:

I guess it's possible in theory, a quick search suggest pydub library.​But you may find something better if you do a little research.

Uses https://github.com/cheofusi/just_playback to play sound. It's actually surprising how hard it was to find a cross-platform Python module to play sound that doesn't require an external dependency like ffmpeg. Even then, modules like https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub don't support features like seeking/scrubbing, which was a must-have for my project.

Once python is installed, you will also need to install the "pydub" package for this script to work. If you're on a Windows computer, you can do this from the command line (run the "cmd") program. If you're on mac, you can do this from the terminal. Basically, the way that you do this is using "pip" -- a "helper" program that comes with python. Once you launch the command line, just run the command python -m pip install pydub --upgrade and you should see a message showing that it successfully installed. If you're struggling with this step, just google how to "pip install python packages" and you can find a lot of beginner guides.

That is kinda what serverless functions are built for. Looks like python has some good libraries for this: https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub.

The files are big, so it's not feasible to load one in all at once. They have to be streamed/chunked somehow. (sadly, pydub doesn't support this...)

You can put these options in a config file and they will become the default: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#configur...

Yep. yt-dlp and youtube-dl

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Will also start to feel the impact. My theory is that we will see a bunch of new video hosting sites as youtube itself attempts to lock down its ecosystem. They haven't paid attention in any adversarial way as far as I can tell.

When they do, it wont be great.

The points you make aren't unreasonable.

It is necessary to establish clear boundaries of what can and can be provided by the maintainers. If not done at an earlier stage of the project, the support burden becomes too much to bear at which point the maintainer transfers ownership, and the project suffers from catastrophic consequences such as the xz backdoor we're talking about here, or other cases where the project mostly stalls and serves as an ego-boosting platform for the new maintainer, as was the case with PhantomJS[6].

This can also happen in your life, where a "friend" sees that you possess a certain skill, and then gradually tries to push an inordinate amount of their personal work related to this field onto you.

Personally, I think it's best to use an approach with extremely clear communication as to what the maintainer can and cannot provide. This can be seen, for example, in yt-dlp[1], where the consumer is clearly informed upfront that not providing detailed information as requested will lead them to block said consumer; or sqlite where their position regarding contributed patches[2] and support[3] is similarly made clear.

Having a shouty BDFL like Torvalds can also help improve code quality[4] and questionable contributions[5], though it is better that the shouty BDFL makes statements that are professional and do not show as much aggression; so for example, "Mauro, shut the fuck up"[7] would become "Mauro, your response is completely unbecoming for a Linux kernel maintainer, and is not in line with the promise of not breaking userspace."

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/new?assignees=&label...

[2] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

[3] https://www.sqlite.org/support.html

[4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/linux_6_8_rc2/

[5] https://cse.umn.edu/cs/linux-incident

[6] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/14541

[7] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

Or just "yt-dlp "

yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) still works pretty well at the current state of Twitter.

To download audio from YouTube videos, you'll utilize the widely used yt-dlp library, which can be installed using the pip command as follows:

Use: `yt-dlp with --write-comments --no-download --batch-file FILE`

- FILE is a text file with a list of YouTube id's/URL's

- https://superuser.com/a/1732443/4390

- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

> Then youtube-dl wasn't a thing anymore (maybe it is again?)...

yt-dlp is definitely a thing: <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp>