diff --git a/api/src/config.js b/api/src/config.js
index bb4994c0..bc740587 100644
--- a/api/src/config.js
+++ b/api/src/config.js
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ const env = {
     ytSessionServer: process.env.YOUTUBE_SESSION_SERVER,
     ytSessionReloadInterval: 300,
     ytSessionInnertubeClient: process.env.YOUTUBE_SESSION_INNERTUBE_CLIENT,
+    ytAllowBetterAudio: process.env.YOUTUBE_ALLOW_BETTER_AUDIO !== "0",
 }
 
 const genericUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36";
diff --git a/api/src/processing/match.js b/api/src/processing/match.js
index 63de71e7..d93e1caf 100644
--- a/api/src/processing/match.js
+++ b/api/src/processing/match.js
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ export default async function({ host, patternMatch, params }) {
                     fetchInfo.format = "vp9";
                     fetchInfo.isAudioOnly = true;
                     fetchInfo.isAudioMuted = false;
+
+                    if (env.ytAllowBetterAudio && params.youtubeBetterAudio) {
+                        fetchInfo.quality = "max";
+                    }
                 }
 
                 r = await youtube(fetchInfo);
diff --git a/api/src/processing/schema.js b/api/src/processing/schema.js
index a1b667d7..fb227714 100644
--- a/api/src/processing/schema.js
+++ b/api/src/processing/schema.js
@@ -46,5 +46,6 @@ export const apiSchema = z.object({
     localProcessing: z.boolean().default(false),
 
     youtubeHLS: z.boolean().default(false),
+    youtubeBetterAudio: z.boolean().default(false),
 })
 .strict();