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Save resources on your computer with this one trick!

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

mpv --no-video $url 

where $url is the link to the YouTube video.