youtube to mp3....

[budda12ax7]

Does anyone know any good youtube to mp3 converters that work.....desktop or online.....

I had one and now its gone....

[andy_tchp]

The wonderful command line utility 'youtube-dl' is capable of this.

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uniqueyoutubeid

It can output to aac, vorbis, wav etc too.


Install for Windows users looks a bit different to Linux, this guide looks like it should help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfUUZvybPY

[jthomas]

4K Video Downloader

you can save to video (.mp4)or extract audio (.mp3). For the PC.

[soggy mittens]

Are you just looking for a song or to do regularly? Do you prefer lossless?

[budda12ax7]

just for mp3....

Basically....just for lofi synth wave comps....chilled cow and the like.

[zhivago]

I am on a Mac, and use the MacX YouTube Downloader:

https://download.cnet.com/MacX-YouTube- ... 41301.html

[timtam]

I use a range of web-based downloaders that come and go (probably as youtube blocks them). Safer than EXEs - although they are mostly fronts for sites that want your to download their EXE to do the same job .. I never do. I always have a pile of such sites bookmarked, and switch between them if one disappears or doesn't work on a particular day. All do MP4 download, not all do MP3 (but there are convertors, incl Audacity). Occasionally a youtube channel seems to use youtube capabilities to block downloading of copyrighted material, but a few other things can get around that (eg Videodownload Helper add-on for Firefox).
Here's one site that does direct youtube to MP3 ... no guarantees
https://distillvideo.com/mp3

[danbind]

The one from MediaHuman is very good...

[shoule79]

Another vote for 4K video downloader.

[DeathJag]

4K Video Downloader is pretty good. Sometimes it doesn’t work though and it’s cool to see some alternatives!