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There is a great deal of music content on youtube, including some full
albums or even multiple versions of same. Does anyone know the standard
bit rate for them, if there is such a thing.
One thing about Youtube is that there is no single standard.
The audio and video quality of downloads can be all over the map.
Some on the web say it is proportional to the quality of the video file
encoding. So those labeled as "hd or hq" are the highest quality videos
and the bit rate for the audio follows accordingly. Some are labeled as
"audiophile" without mention of what it means.
Has anyone experience and/or information about this?
One can get insights to the actual quality of Youtube files if one attempts
to download them, which is possible via a number of means including the web
site "Keepvid".
http://keepvid.com/ .
Files will be presented for download in a number of resolutions and formats,
none exceeding the best format used to upload, it appears. Once the file is
downloaded, various software tools can be used to examine and separate out
the video and audio components. Unfortunately it is not possible to know the
full history of the files, and what formats they may have been upsampled and
downsampled to along the way. Generally Youtube uploads are not stunning
performers. I tend to look at it as the "AM radio of Y2k".