I'll gladly pay a % of what I pay to download yt-dl
Historically, carrier pigeons (or homing pigeons) have been used to deliver messages over long distances. There's even a humorous and real experiment where a carrier pigeon carrying a USB stick was faster in transmitting data than an ADSL connection: the "Pigeon vs. Internet" race.
But in all seriousness, the point you're making is valid. Bandwidth is not free, and the resources required to maintain and expand the internet's infrastructure are significant. It's easy to forget about the underlying systems when we use everyday services. Just like water and electricity, the convenience of modern technology can make it easy to overlook the complexity and cost of the infrastructure that makes it possible.
So, while we don't have to feed and care for digital pigeons, it's always a good reminder to be appreciative and conscientious of the resources we use.
brew install yt-dlp
alias vget=yt-dlp
alias aget='vget --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 4'
# https://opencollective.com/homebrew
# https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/Collaborators.md#collaboratorsOf course, up to you, but most youtube videos are actually an AAC (m4a) codec and thus by asking for mp3 you're going to get a transcoding ffmpeg subprocess in between the bytes and the file in your directory. I would be stunned if whatever your ultimate consuming player is doesn't support aac/m4a/mp4 playback
$ yt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k...
139 m4a audio only 2 | 1.47MiB 49k https | audio only mp4a.40.5 49k 22k low, IOS, m4a_dash
140 m4a audio only 2 | 3.90MiB 129k https | audio only mp4a.40.2 129k 44k medium, IOS, m4a_dash
249 webm audio only 2 | 1.54MiB 51k https | audio only opus 51k 48k low, ANDR, webm_dash
250 webm audio only 2 | 2.02MiB 67k https | audio only opus 67k 48k low, ANDR, webm_dash
251 webm audio only 2 | 3.95MiB 131k https | audio only opus 131k 48k medium, ANDR, webm_dash
599 m4a audio only 2 | 950.46KiB 31k https | audio only mp4a.40.5 31k 22k ultralow, ANDR, m4a_dash
600 webm audio only 2 | 1.06MiB 35k https | audio only opus 35k 48k ultralow, ANDR, webm_dashthanks for the tip
function sideload() {
mv $1 "$HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~co~supertop~castro/Documents/Sideloads/"
echo "Sideloaded $1 to Castro; should be available soon."
}