It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Upset_Tumbleweed5465 on 2025-06-09 17:44:11.

Hi all,

I’m setting up a process to archive audio from educational YouTube videos, mainly lectures, interviews, and tutorials, for offline listening and long-term storage. I’m specifically interested in extracting high quality audio (MP3 or similar), along with metadata like the title, channel name, and upload date.

For those of you doing something similar:

• What’s your preferred approach for reliably extracting audio from videos?
• Any recommendations for balancing audio quality and file size?
• How do you handle organizing and preserving metadata alongside the audio?

Looking to build something sustainable and efficient for a large collection. Would love to hear how others handle this kind of workflow.