A recommended youtube to mp3 converter?

[peewee12345]

My go-to converter seems to no longer function.. for months now it "says" under maintenance come back in an hour

Can someone recommend a youtube to mp3 to itunes converter. I am on El Capitan OS.
Thank you

 

[High Desert]

Got the same issue and question here. Looks like the Youtube mp3 converter was taken offline due to threat of lawsuit. I have spent the morning trying to find a free alternative that is clean (no ads, hidden costs, etc) like like the Youtube converter. Most everything I have looked at either has limitations on downloads, tons of ads, or junk that runs in the background trying to access contacts, locations, phone, etc. If someone knows of a good replacement, I'd be real interested.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Downie. It will give you the ability to download video from a lot of different sites, as well as extracting audio from YouTuibe videos etc to mp3. I have been using the software for several years and have had no problems. It works well and the developer is great with user response and updates.

 

[nigelbb]

iTubeDownloader is brilliant. While it allows you to download a single video or even entire playlists you can also specify that you just want to download the audio. https://www.alphasoftware.co/itubedownloader/

 

[cerberusss]

youtube-dl works fine. It's command-line however.

First install homebrew by copy/pasting the one-liner on their home page in Terminal: https://brew.sh/
Then install youtube-dl by copy/pasting this line:

$ brew install youtube-dl

Then convert any video into MP3 with the following line:

$ youtube-dl -x --audio-format=mp3 "http://www.youtube.com/blah"