Question: How to download music with the highest possible quality with spotdl 4.0.1?

Requested Feature

Hi developers! I recently updated spotdl to version 4.0.1 with python-pip And I’ve noticed that the way to download music with the highest possible quality has changed. As an example I have a song downloaded with spotdl 3.9.6 with 240 kbps (spotdl <url>) Now that same song using this new version has 128 kbps (spotdl download <url>)

Also in 3.9.6 this command was invoked using yt-dlp: yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 <url> But in 4.0.1 this doesn’t seem to be the case.

Could any of you help me with this. Thanks!

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Created a year ago
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xnetcatcommented, Dec 2, 2022

Would it be possible to keep the vorbis format without any conversion to mp3 ?

What do you mean by this, the files we download from youtube are either webm/m4a. If you don’t want any conversion you can use --format flac/m4a because they don’t re-encode the files (also they are way faster because ffmpeg only copies the audio stream from one file to another)

Just found your comment. Yesterday I opened an feature request because I couldn’t find a way to avoid the ffmpeg conversion. I did try using “–format m4a” and not specifying bitrate, but conversion is made anyway. Could this be a bug?

That’s a bug, next version will add --preserve-audio option to skip the conversion step for m4a and opus files.

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ghostcommented, Nov 30, 2022

Great! I guess this would be a temporary solution. Let’s see what happens, and as you say hopefully the change won’t break the code.

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