Audio question related to best video quality ("default")

[edbird]

• I think my problem is NOT with youtube-dl
• I've verified and i assure that I'm running youtube-dl-gui 0.4
• I assure that i am using the latest version of youtube-dl
• Searched bugtracker
• I've read the FAQs file

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Question

I have read the FAQ and understand that to obtain the best video quality, the "default" option should be selected.

However, how do I obtain the best audio quality.

"Best audio quality" (probably) means extracting the original audio format from the obtained video file. That is, without re-encoding it from one format to another.

• Should the "Extract Audio" option in Youtube-DLG be used to obtain the best audio quality?
• Should an external tool (maybe ffmpeg?) be used to obtain the best audio quality?

I understand that chosing an arbitrary audio format when downloading with Youtube-DLG is not a good idea, because this might cause the audio to be decoded and re-encoded as a different format.

[axcore]

This project is abandoned. Try one of the forks listed here or, better still, ask the same question on reddit itself.