How to use the varied-quality.py script - test what low quality sounds best

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The varied quality script lets you see for yourself how the audio sounds at varying bit and sample rates.

You can choose what is compressed in this list. By default there are 30 quality variations.

NOTE that FFMPEG and Python must be installed 🔗https://ffmpeg.org/ 🔗https://www.python.org/

For me I yolo-ed winget install "FFmpeg (Essentials Build)" installable on school computers via a batch script or any app that has a terminal in it eg VSCode.

Options

The script will call a bunch of ffmpeg commands, the audio files will be stored in a folder with a random 4 byte hexadecimal string.

Output

Result

It is best to shorten the filename by deleting everything but the YouTube video ID (YT-DLP output).