Downloading songs from YouTube?

gogwmos

14 years ago

Is there a way to download just the music from a video on YouTube, not the video itself?

Thanks!

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tickman
14 years ago
"Audacity" will do that. I believe there is a recently updated version now. You may have to download the manual to set it up the way you want it.
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
14 years ago
If you happen to use Firefox, this extension is kinda nice.

It adds a dialog like this:
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I'm sure there are other addons and methods that work. I just somehow stumbled onto this one, it worked, so I stuck with it.

It should work for you as long as you haven't joined the YouTube HTML5 trial.
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Audacity records digital audio information. If you're recording a sound sourced from a record, with the sound source connected to a PC, it's gone through a A to D conversion. Which is what my first comment today mentioned as a factor limiting quality. PC level sound converters are of low quality generally. A really good one all by itself costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Whether a sound is stored in analog form or in consumer digital source, at the point where it's inside a PC and "recordable", it's digital. Digital is digital, the original source doesn't matter as far as ways to record it. When you say "OP", are you talking about the conversation above from many years back? PS - there's nothing at all wrong with sound stored in digital form, per se. Most modern musical sound recordings are stored in that way. But at the recording studio level, the sound is lossless and is at VERY high bitrates and VERY high sample rates, much higher in both regards than anything available or playable at a consumer level. Playback of such recordings over appropriate equipment sounds nearly exactly the same as the sound was live.
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jean_mi_z5
14 years ago
Youtubedownload works great for downloading and then converting to MP3. I also use the Firefox extension for downloading the videos.

Jean

Here is a link that might be useful: youtubedownload
gogwmos
Original Author
14 years ago
Okay, Jean, I downloaded your link and went to try it, but forgot so many videos now have ads before them. How can I skip the ad or edit it out? Also, when I want to convert it, it asks which file. There are so many to choose from, which one do I need?

Thanks everyone, I will try all of them out to see which is easiest, this was the first try.
jean_mi_z5
14 years ago
I don't think you can remove just the ads unless you would use an audio editor.

When it asks what file you want to convert, browse by clicking on the folder just to the right of where it says "Select the video file". I like using the youtubedownloader to convert, because I can download all the videos and convert later at my leisure. For the most part, I do use the Firefox add-on to download. Just easier when you are on the youtube page to click "download".

HTH, Jean
bob414
14 years ago
Tickman suggested Audacity. Have you tried it. You don't have to download the video. Just play it and record the sound with Audacity. Then you can edit out any part you don't want before exporting it as an mp3.

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