splatt9990

Malloc is a C function and wouldn’t come around for another 15 years or so. They likely wrote memory allocation code directly in machine code/assembly which could and would just access raw memory directly.

FWIW, yt-dlp can do the ffmpeg part for you with the flags -x --audio-format mp3

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