Thank! I tried it today. It is quite good. I would probably use it on my laptop.

It is not a dumb question at all. I asked my self the same question a few months ago. You are correct. It is essentially just metadata. You can embed them with something like kid3 directly into the music file it self. So for example I have a .lrc file(the sync lyrics file). It will look something like this:

[00:16.60]Through your terribly fragile heart.

[00:24.70]Even the secret of the red fruit is, "I’ll give it all to you.

[00:32.90]Even though I’m still hurting your leaky heart

[00:40.50]I still see your dream

[00:44.00]A person whose beauty that can’t be achieved whose beauty can’t be achieved…

[00:51.80]I want you to love me, I want you to love me …

U can just copy the text in the .lrc file and then write it into the music file with a lyrics tag with something like kid3. If u open the music file with a music player that supports it, u will get synced lyrics. The process is quite tedious to do manually, so I made an app to download audio from YouTube videos and embed the subtitles as lyrics to do it for me (yes, this is a shameless plug). If you are interested, you can check it out. Azul box

Thank you for your insight, strawberry, audacious and mpd are all amazing software. The problem is that synced lyrics is really important thing for me(a jpop listener, that don’t know Japanese). I am pretty sure that I can probably get the lyric to work with somekind of mpd frontend. Mpd seem to be really fun. I may just make a frontend for it for my own use-case.

Thank you for the recommendation! I will give it a try if I have time.

Thank you, it look gorgeous! I will give it a try.

Thank you! Rmpc still seem to have a lot of potential. Sadly, no embedded lyric is a deal breaker for me.

That sound like a lot of work, but it seem really fun! I may try it when I have time.

Thank! It work really well. I may switch to it because I prefer the UI of Tauon more than Elisa.

Thank you!

For the first question, I assume that you want to put all video downloaded into one big video in CLI. I guess you can do something like this with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i "concat:input1|input2|input3|etc" -codec copy output.mkv If you want to work it out with yt-dlp you can try this:

yt-dlp "a link" Assuming you get mp4 format ls -1 *.mp4 > file_list.txt then ffmpeg -safe 0 -f concat -i list.txt -c copy output.mp4

Also, is downloading the mp4 significantly different in sound quality than bestaudio (which tends to output a webm rather than mp4)?

For your second question, I am not sure my self to be honest. I never actually look at it. That is why for my app this is the arg I use to get best video and also best audio: -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best"

You can probably play a bit more with the format, if you feel like it.

Hope this help!

Yes, it work perfectly for youtube. In fact, it is the main way I download and consume music now days!

Thanks for the nice comment! I’m actually planning to maybe integrate the Picard metadata into my music downloader. It is still a plan though. I have no working prototype yet.

It seem to be really interesting! I will give it a try.

Thank you!!!

True! yt-dlp is the best.

Thank you!

I hope you will have a fun time with it!