Unable to extract uploaded id

[chiho-5]

Trying to download AudioCaps for captioning but all the processes are giving off errors "Unable to extract uploader id". Is there a way to resolve this issue

[Labbeti]

Hi!
Could you share more information about your issue? (aac-datasets version, OS, error output). To show the aac-datasets version, just use the command aac-datasets-info.

I think this error can be caused by youtube-dl, which I think is no longer maintained for downloading YouTube videos, but I cannot be sure without more details.
You could also try yt-dlp instead (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp), and specify the path to AudioCaps.

[chiho-5]

Hi thanks for your response. I'm using the latest version and I'm running on google colab. I'm trying to understand what you're saying. Are you saying I should download yt-dlp and change the youtube-dl path in AudioCaps class to yt-dlp

[chiho-5]

Here's an image to explain better

[Labbeti]

This message can occur for two reasons:

• youtube-dl cannot download the audio file because it is outdated or ;
• the original YouTube video has been deleted.

Using ytdlp should fix most of these errors, so I will change aac-datasets to use ytdlp instead of youtube-dl by default.

[chiho-5]

Okay. I think it's the second problem. It seems like most of the files have been deleted. I changed the path of the YouTube-dl to yt-dlp and the problem still persists. Unless I did it wrongly.