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title: "Stream Audio From YouTube Video with mpv"
date: 2022-08-02T17:48:21+05:30
lastmod: 2022-08-02T17:48:21+05:30
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keywords: [stream audio youtube mpv]
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tags: [mpv]
categories: [linux]
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Save resources on your computer with this one trick!
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## What you will need
- mpv for playing audio 
- youtube-dl or one of its many forks for streaming YouTube videos

## How to do it
Tell mpv you do not want video playback
```bash
mpv --no-video $url 
```
where `$url` is the link to the YouTube video.