ytmcd

YouTube Music Channel Downloader.

Basically a sensible selection of youtube-dl flags to download music from music channels in bulk!

If you are using this for yourself, feel free to ignore file downloaded as that is for my own personal record, and be sure to edit channels to your own preferences.

Remarks

Refer to the man pages for my youtube-dl flag choices, but here are some points worth mentioning:

--download-archive downloaded: sucessful downloads will have their video ids listed here, which youtube-dl will ignore in subsequent runs
--geo-bypass: useful for a lot of the Asian songs (thanks SONY Japan...)
--max-filesize 128m: Usually amounts to 2.5 hour files with the current audio quality settings; fits most reasonable-length music mixes and avoids annoying 10-hour novelty videos
--add-metadata: Writes the video title to ID3 title and the channel name to ID3 artist, in the case of MP3 files

And for some general Q/A (please correct me if I am wrong via issue or PR):

Why high-quality MP3 when you can get the FLAC audio?

FLAC metadata tagging (vorbis format) is weird, ID3 on MP3 is much more common and established
I personally don't have terabytes on terabytes of storage space
The transcoding overhead (youtube-dl appears to encode FLAC from the downloaded webm audio much faster, MP3 is slower as it is a lossy compression format) acts as a great time buffer so as to not get rate-limited or ip blocked
I don't have super sensitive ears; MP3 at high bitrates is good enough for me in most cases, though I do download my favorite songs as FLAC

Why not download the native youtube MP4 AAC audio instead of transcoding from lossy to lossy (MP3)?

AFAIK and to my own experience, --add-metadata does not currently work with --audio-format aac (the tags are left empty if you read ytmcd-ripped AAC files with a universal tag reader like kid3). Metadata tags are very important to me, though if this is not the case for you, it is an easy script modification.

Why no `--restrict-filenames`?

I download lots of East Asian music and prefer to keep the original titles
My terminal can handle unicode

Channels

These are the channels I currently back up for myself.

In no particular order:

UCKioNqOX_kOCLcSIWPL_lxQ - Aviencloud
UCtkSwwONNeMC3C2aHxGeFmA - Inspira
UCJWQkiBMWCmr3BbZolEmgXw - Shinico
UC6hBefyLMtG7FXhZ55da3Vw - Artzie Music
UCUHhoftNnYfmFp1jvSavB-Q - Funky Panda™
UCIKF1msqN7lW9gplsifOPkQ - GalaxyMusic
UCYTNxR2Z4ryz88WRWiaPCdg - K - Music Sweet
UCZ7368uifluuE3Xh-XrqlWQ - Leafy Radio
UCJ6td3C9QlPO9O_J5dF4ZzA - Monstercat
UC_aEa8K-EOJ3D6gOs7HcyNg - NoCopyrightSounds
UCl4UOc8h1ZnO-inFPgAu7gw - NXS
UC3ifTl5zKiCAhHIBQYcaTeg - Proximity
UCcoYD5HDg8P-gvJU-oDYq5Q - StrobeNetwork Records
UCsPOjxg79gnqBmpUY38t_3g - VoicedOut
UC-wNjNTqCfXSKd4S1tNgWUg - Waifu Wednesdays
UCRs41MXZpAhXgiD4KjTjabg - Xefox Music
UCMOgdURr7d8pOVlc-alkfRg - xKito Music
UC7tD6Ifrwbiy-BoaAHEinmQ - Diversity
UC5nc_ZtjKW1htCVZVRxlQAQ - MrSuicideSheep
UCbKJXEbKdmiJO0tQzb1SmRg - Wejustman Music
UCvOGElQWhX8tyTxwzv1rKzg - ENM
UCKP5rY3Kr5FBZY13LzF-gpw - Universe Music
UCbfMTDftQhRySQKFCV8PfHg - GalaxyMusicNet
UCSa8IUd1uEjlREMa21I3ZPQ - CloudKid
UCM9KEEuzacwVlkt9JfJad7g - Chill Nation
UCa10nxShhzNrCE1o2ZOPztg - Trap Nation
UC8QfB1wbfrNwNFHQxfyNJsw - Rap Nation
UCFZ75Bg73NJnJgmeUX9l62g - Selected
UCgMyPaCx5-LkEx_54Ul9f-A - Futurism
UCK9Rngx643faIs9b4jxHQHw - Grizzly Music
UCSXm6c-n6lsjtyjvdD0bFVw - Liquicity