I won’ rant over youtube’s inferior sound quality, but please tag or mark your finished files as youtube sourced, at least if there’s any possibility you further share them.
Best tipp i ever got in this regard was putting a cup of crushed charcoal in the fridge. Absorbs odors for years.
Exactly that. Old cds and books change their owners for little to no money all the time. I have accumulated 100s of cds without spending anything, that where about to get thrown away. I will rip and share them on soulseek eventually.
Youtube’s quality isn’t as bad as it’s used to be, in fact you can get pretty high quality aac and opus streams given that the upload had legit quality and your using legit software to download and not some shitty webapp.
From the YouTube Help section on “Encoding specifications for music videos”: