Show HN: M2M – A bash tool to convert YouTube videos to audio with yt-dlp&FFmpeg

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A minimal bash tool to convert video files to any other supported media files using yt-dlp and ffmpeg.

• Fetches the video from the URL using yt-dlp
• Saves it in your $YTDIR directory ($YTDIR=$HOME/Music/ytdownloads by default)
• Uses ffmpeg to convert the video to another file format
• Deletes the original video file and saves the converted file to $YTDIR

Add this line to your .bashrc or .zshrc file to set your output directory:

Change the extension form .mp3 to anything you like