Music quality: 192kbps vs 320kbps

[a0g83agbc84]

Hey everyone,

I see that spotify-dl will download songs with preferredquality set to 192. Why not aim for higher / max quality? Is this a youtube restriction? Is it only because of file size concerns? If none of the above, should this not be user selectable with default 192?

Some light here would be highly appreciated :)

Cheers!

[SathyaBhat]

Hey everyone,

I see that spotify-dl will download songs with preferredquality set to 192. Why not aim for higher / max quality? Is this a youtube restriction? Is it only because of file size concerns? If none of the above, should this not be user selectable with default 192?

The 192kbps is set for transcoding, for fetching from YouTube it picks it up at best audio available (see here https://github.com/SathyaBhat/spotify-dl/blob/master/spotify_dl/spotify_dl.py#L28)

Given youtube is most likely to re-encode on upload, I picked up 192k as a sane default, I don't believe it would matter much for most people

[felipe78]

320