Re: Need Help -- Audio Experts

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 15:37 this Wednesday (GMT):

Music is available on YouTube (???) but it is containerized in a video
format.
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Fortunately, with GNU/Linux, it is easy to extract.
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First, determine the audio format:
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ffprobe file.xxx
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Usually, this will be AAC or OPUS.
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Second, do the extraction:
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ffmpeg -i file.xxx -acodec copy file.(opus/aac)
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So far, so good.  But how can we now play the audio?
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If the file is OPUS just do:
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opusdec file.opus --force-wav - | aplay
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Beautiful!
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If the file is AAC then do:
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faad -w file.aac | aplay
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However this does NOT work, although according to the docs
it should.
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The stdout of faad is fucked.  Most likely it is a serious bug.
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This DOES work:
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ffmpeg -i file.aac -f wav pipe:1 | aplay
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(I omit the WAV file analysis of the two different commands.)
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Can anyone confirm that the "faad -w" command is FUBAR?
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If I get confirmation then I will report the bug.
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Note that this DOES work:
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faad -o file.wav file.acc && aplay file.wav
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Only in the stdout case (-w) is the WAV file maligned.
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Note: I don't want to hear any "Duh, just use VLC man" responses.

If you want a command line media player, mpv is also pretty good.
If you're stubborn about keeping wav, you can also use yt-dlp with the
--extract-audio and --audio-format wav flags.
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