#Where is the best place to download YouTube videos?

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slow nest
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Does it matter where I download it from?

round turtle
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you can use ytdlp so it will download the best quality possible

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kindred zodiac
white nexus
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guhh cobalt is the best

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white nexus
grand zephyr
long forum
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why would you need flac off of youtube

white nexus
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I mean wav is good too

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And anyways u can use any extension converter

long forum
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wav too big

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but like just download wav and convert to flac...

kindred zodiac
lunar rootBOT
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Ayo? @kindred zodiac level 1 !!! lfg

long forum
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i prefer cobalt

kindred zodiac
# long forum ehhh its too finniky

Why? This service is optional for traffic-save, provides decent quality + searching the pasted Link really fast. Although that's it. Don't ask me why I don't using other services, savedfrom is my beloved

long forum
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wdym by traffic-save

kindred zodiac
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It saves good quality and doesn't using high-prior

long forum
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i mean cobalt.tools saves in high quality too

kindred zodiac
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I mean donwload speed is saving traffic, by setting protocol by-low

long forum
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looks nicer too

kindred zodiac
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Okay I'll try your service too

grand zephyr
white pilot
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Now, if you have time to try cmd, yt-dlp is pretty quick with this command to grab audios:

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format wav <Insert yt link here>
long forum
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why would u need flac off of youtube if youtube compresses it

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youre not gaining any quality

grand zephyr
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Needed

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Smaller file

long forum
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i meant mp3 over flac...

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or ogg

grand zephyr
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That's awful

grand zephyr
long forum
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yea but like

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youtube stores audio in fuckin m4a or smth

grand zephyr
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They still have the quality u want

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They operate just like wavs

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That are loseless

long forum
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i knoooooww but youtube compresses audio anyway you dont need flac

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cobalt might just be downloading the audio in m4a and just converting it to flac

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which makes like no difference

lunar rootBOT
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Ayo? @long forum level 61 !!! lfg

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except it makes the file bigger

grand zephyr
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ogg or mp3 will be even smaller...

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and still have the same quality...

grand zephyr
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No

long forum
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flac is overkill for audio from youtube

grand zephyr
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Mp3 and ogg are lossy formats

long forum
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personally i download in ogg

grand zephyr
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U still give away quality

long forum
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i dont see ur point

grand zephyr
long forum
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i think youtube stores audio in like 256 kbps

grand zephyr
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U have an m4a file and u turn that into an mp3, that compresses again

long forum
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so if you download as mp3 it actually does not matter

grand zephyr
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Check the cut off rates

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grand zephyr
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U don't know how they store each file so u can never be too sure

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Where did m4a cut off

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Does*

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Cut off range

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Like

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20khz

dawn glade
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NoTube. I recommend

grand zephyr
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Mm i see

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So no point in downloading in WAV then

long forum
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no

grand zephyr
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Then?

long forum
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then no point in wanting flac either ..

grand zephyr
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Yeah so same applies to WAV right

long forum
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mhm

grand zephyr
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Alright we ditching WAV and FLAC rips from yt then

fair elbow
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akshually 🤓

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ogg!!

fair elbow
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😭

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i got confused with ogg man

nocturne zodiac
nocturne zodiac
nocturne zodiac
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you put it in flac / wav because EVERY time you reencode as a lossy format, you suffer more compression loss

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like when you save a jpeg

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and then screenshot it

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and save it as a jpeg

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over and over and over

long forum
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guhhh

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what if i download it in the format youtube stores it in

nocturne zodiac
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lotta times yt dl'ers dont actually trip the high bitrate thingy

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like, you can use stacher, and set it to download m4a

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and it will visibly be worse quality on a spectro vs just, using the flac toggle in the first place

long forum
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hm

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okay will consider

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i do use cobalt.tools

nocturne zodiac
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below

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or above rather

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opus is a codec, ogg is a container

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but my point of telling people to download flacs

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is to minimize extra-shittification from reencoding into lossy codecs, repeatedly

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mikus

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you literally fukin play gartic phone

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its the same concept if you download an mp3, then edit it, and save it as an mp3

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its gonna progressively get shittier

white nexus
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Is this shitpost chat

nocturne zodiac
nocturne zodiac
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what does flac stand for

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i will wait

long forum
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cobalt lets u download m4a tho...

nocturne zodiac
long forum
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use best

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that downloads m4a usually

nocturne zodiac
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especially since you can set up auto archival

nocturne zodiac
gloomy reef
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cobalt.tools

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🗿

nocturne zodiac
gloomy reef
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was just helping felt 😭

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also ILY felt

nocturne zodiac
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not talking about rn, talking in general u goofball

gloomy reef
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understood felt

grand zephyr
gloomy reef
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🤐

grand zephyr
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I will but I'm at school atm

gloomy reef
grand zephyr
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We'll see

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What ur saying is true but recoding it to a FLAC doesnt do any harm. Is it pointless? Indeed it is. However FLAC is lossless, therefore no quality is lost nor gained. The same goes for WAV also, all the details and such are preserved but doesn't really help either just like FLAC. The only difference is that it's uncompressed. it won’t degrade the quality, but it won’t improve it either. Downloading as FLAC or WAV will just make the file size larger, without adding any benefits. It’s like putting a low-resolution image in a high-resolution frame. The image will still look the same, but the frame will take up more space.

long forum
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thats my point

grand zephyr
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grand zephyr
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So technically. We download m4a and we happi

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Cuz Its pointless afterwards

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No?

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Okay so we do that. No need to recode the download

long forum
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rx does

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good enough

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grand zephyr
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Yeah that's sucks

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Older audacity versions wouldn't open the file for me

grand zephyr
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ithimk they are

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def proud of the pomni one cuz it sounds good on a 1 minute dataset

nocturne zodiac
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the purpose of dunking it into flac or wav, is to not suffer transcoding losses

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if you take an mp3, open it, resave it as an mp3

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repeat, it will keep getting progressively worse

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AAC is still lossy

steep linden
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zero ads

nocturne zodiac
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stacher

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zero ads, and, more features

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you could literally use stacher as an auto downloader for all your youtube subscriptions

steep linden
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if u dont feel like downloading something then yout.com

nocturne zodiac
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and have a cache

steep linden
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if youre fine with downloading programs then ytdl or stacher

nocturne zodiac
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stacher is ytdl

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except, gui that is understandable to 99% of people

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which is why i recommend it

steep linden
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There are more ytdl gui's im just giving both names of the thing

nocturne zodiac
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yes i just like stacher because, least annoying

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its bloaty in install size, besides that, pretty much does anything you could want

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including only downloading sections of a vid, then dunking to flac

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ease of changing which folder it downloads to

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background throttling, yt throttling bypasses

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whole nine

grand zephyr
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I'm not saying export it as the same codec

grand zephyr
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But since u know, it's original stored format is m4a, why not download it as that so that it's faster n such to download

long forum
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mhm

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convenient for ppl with slow internet (me)

grand zephyr
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Same here lmfao

nocturne zodiac
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download as M4A, then, ffmpeg to flac

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there is no "downloading the flac"

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youtube does not store flacs

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where do you think the flac comes from

grand zephyr
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What I'm saying is

nocturne zodiac
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no

grand zephyr
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Yt stores in m4a

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Right

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?

nocturne zodiac
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what you are saying is, you are skipping the 2 nano seconds it takes to ffmpeg an m4a

grand zephyr
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So yt stores m4a

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Right?

grand zephyr
nocturne zodiac
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you are not downloading it in flac or wav

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if you select flac or wav

grand zephyr
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Coverting

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Yeah

nocturne zodiac
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it downloads m4a, and saves in flac

grand zephyr
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Yee that

nocturne zodiac
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this saves you the chance of the end user being brain dead

grand zephyr
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So no point

nocturne zodiac
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and "exporting"

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without changing

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which, by default in audacity

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chooses the source codec

grand zephyr
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Okay so it doesn't matter

nocturne zodiac
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so

grand zephyr
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Okies

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That's what I was getting at, yes

nocturne zodiac
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if you literally want to save 5% of your time, and, 20% of your hdd, to just

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have to click 4 more buttons every time you export the first time after editing, sure

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be my guest

grand zephyr
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Slow wifi

nocturne zodiac
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again

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if you download

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m4a

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or flac

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IT DOWNLOADS

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THE SAME AMOUNT

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AND THE SAME FILE

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FFMPEG

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IS DONE ON YOUR CPU

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LOCALLY

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NO INTERNET

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you are lead QC litsa

grand zephyr
nocturne zodiac
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im going to danny devito christmas tree

grand zephyr
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I didn't know how said services work

nocturne zodiac
grand zephyr
nocturne zodiac
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😭

grand zephyr
hollow wind
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online ffmpeg trolley

grand zephyr
nocturne zodiac
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(audio)

Clipping (audio)

Clipping is a form of waveform distortion that occurs when an amplifier is overdriven and attempts to deliver an output voltage or current beyond its maximum capability. Driving an amplifier into clipping may cause it to output power in excess of its power rating.
In the frequency domain, clipping produces strong harmonics in the high-frequency ...

grand zephyr
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again

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different bit depth

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?

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from the og?

nocturne zodiac
grand zephyr
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lmao

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i get it

grand zephyr
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Yes thank u. I got a very similar answer when googling so thanks for confirming lusbertmoment

slow nest
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Thank you all. My problem has been resolved.

silent apex
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Recap please lfg

white pilot
grand zephyr
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No drama took place

nocturne zodiac
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there is no "bloat" in adding a script to quickly download all models a user would want

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bloat would be adding 30 scripts, to have every option of downloading models, ie, v1.sh, v2.sh, uvr.sh

white pilot
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Well, script was purely copy & paste commands before

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Also, infer-web is bigger as there are more cells. Maybe not "far worse" but same-ish code quality, neither is better

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I need to sleep anyway

nocturne zodiac
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and before the "GPT it" is questioned, that is how everything started with kalo

nocturne zodiac
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dithering can cause clipping in rare scenarios, and doesn't matter if the individual didn't raise volume or not if their original source material already reaches 0 dB or some crackhead gain

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and, ive still had izo clip when using their resampler, which, has a built in limiter, even if using saracon and sub -3 peak