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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by kawsper on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @11:42PM (#17460722)
Youtube-dl can convert to mp3 and add cover-art from the Youtube thumbnail, not real cover-art, but in most cases that is fine:

$ youtube-dl --extract-audio --add-metadata --xattrs --embed-thumbnail --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 URL

Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by lostctown on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @11:57PM (#17460765)
These two comments sum up the entire progression of my development career to date.