> Any links or ideas of how to make sure Google is aware of this? Cancel the account. That's the only real signal you can send. Switch to simply downloading YT content: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 hour ago

If you're looking to download source material from the internet, yt-dlp is a great tool that can extract and save videos locally from a wide variety of sources like youtube, twitter and more. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

The classic yt-dlp was how this all began, to be honest this one still confuses me but well figure that out in development. - Source: dev.to / 19 days ago

This seems to be a pretty straightforward GUI wrapper around https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode (see https://github.com/PackJC/YoutubeToMP3/blob/main/Form1.cs is a well-maintained public domain alternative. - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV. (Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.) For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client. From the... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Then maybe something like Https://freac.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

Just take that lossless track and encode it to 320kbps Vorbis using a good quality encoder (Foobar or freac). Then load both the files into any ABX comparison tool. It will load both samples then shuffle them so X/Y are random and you have to tell it which you think is A and which you think is B. Source: about 1 year ago

Evidently this will work (though sadly no Linux version): https://freac.org/. Source: over 2 years ago