Fast answer: So higher than 360p isn't needed for listening to music. How to Download Audio from YouTube HD. I've tried to use the website you linked but I'm not sure where the audio's bitrate is. YouTube Music Premium subscribers have the option to adjust the audio streaming quality on their mobile devices and on their computers. The YouTube WebM uses Opus audio encoding, which is comparable to AAC (the codec used in MP4). A good pair of headphones can change a bad music experience to an amazing one. While at least in the case of iTunes and Google Play, they get studio masters that they encode down to AAC/MP3 themselves.

will get you an audio version (-x, short for --extract-audio) in or converted to mp3 (that's the --audio-format option). Launch the best free YouTube to MP3 converter to open its main interface. Early 2016 to now (mid-2016) : 128kbps. Lower than 360p isn't commented. How to Enhance Video Quality on YouTube - original source of article, shared with permission About This Article wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors.

mid-2012 to mid-2013 : 192kbps.

youtube-dl will automatically pick the best quality and most appropriate format.

Download and install MiniTool uTube Downloader.

Since then Youtube seems to be using a constant audio quality for 360p and higher. YouTube only offers 4K video in Google’s WebM format. So where can I get the highest quality soundtrack? mid-2011 to mid-2012 : 152 kbps.

Here's a summary of YouTube's audio quality history (of audio served during 720 and 1080 playback) courtesy of Nick Vogt. Youtube is a great platform for finding new music perhaps, but I would suggest once you find your favorite songs to switch to a different platform. It's worse, because Youtube audio usually goes through 2-3 transcodes. prior to mid-2011 : 128 kbps mid-2013 - early 2016 : 256kbps.

I'm not that knowledgeable but some audio files I've downloaded with youtube-dl have a frequency range of 0-20 kbps kHz, and as far as I can tell those are 320 kbps (the displayed bitrate is always 1411 or 1536 kbps, regardless of the actual quality). As everything is set to “Normal” by default, you’ll want to increase the quality, especially while listening at home. When it comes to audio quality though, I think headphones are the most important factor.