Yohan Kim's Music

This repository contains a collection of files to help create albums of Yohan Kim's music.

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Requirements

To download and process the YouTube links given in the *.info files in the info sub-folders, the following software is required:

• python (to run the scripts)
• youtube-dl
• ffmpeg

Alternatively to python/youtube-dl, you can of course also use a service on the Internet (e.g. https://yt5s.com/) to download the videos.

Sub folders

As a broad major selection, the music was sorted into a Faith and a Secular album in the albums sub-folder. Each of these album sub-folders has a mirrored structure, containing

• an info folder with small text files containing instructions
• a lists folder containing playlists (orders) for easy listening
• an m4a folder into which .m4a files will be downloaded
• an mp3 folder into which .mp3 files can be converted
• an orig folder into which original .m4a files can be downloaded

Implementing the conversion

For music players that support the native audio stream embedded in the YouTube videos (M4A format), it is sufficient to extract the audio from the videos using

ffmpeg -i SOURCE.mp4 -vn -acodec copy <FFMPEG_OPTIONS> TARGET.m4a

whereas the FFMPEG_OPTIONS can be found in the text files in the info sub-folder. This cuts off the trailing portion in newer videos (starting late 2018).

To convert files to MP3 format, you can use

ffmpeg -i SOURCE.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -b:a 192k TARGET.mp3

or

ffmpeg -i SOURCE.m4a -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -b:a 192k TARGET.mp3

And this can of course be combined into a single step

ffmpeg -i SOURCE.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -b:a 192k <FFMPEG_OPTIONS> TARGET.mp3