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Big D 51

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Jan 15, 2011
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There is a song on YouTube that I would like to have as an mp3 so I can put it on my phone. Does anyone know how I can do this?
 
I know there's software for windows but anything good for osx?


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use jDownloader (or FF + VideoDownloadHelper), grab the mp4, then find something to demux mp4 files so you can extract the AAC file inside. All those sites actually re-encode the audio, so in theory you lose quality, that doesn't happen if you simply rip the audio from the video.
 
Wirelessly posted (iPod touch 2nd gen: Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

You can also use Evom, which has a lot of options including extracting and converting the video, sound only, etc.
 
There are many software that offers a conversion. I have here a tool that converts YouTube music into MP3. http://www.flockee.com/static/youtube-to-mp3/?title=youtube-to-mp3-converter&category=on-line-tools is the best tool as I am searching for the best converter on internet. Its cheap because it 100% free. Also, the instruction is easy. Just paste the URL of the chosen music video and in just a couple of minutes, it will be converted.

And yet your tool performs the same function that loads of others do and we're still without a tool that performs the job losslessly :/
 
In Safari, hit CMD-Option-A, and find the video file. Double click that, download it, open it in Streamclip (free) and export audio.

Although, I realize the OP may be long gone by now.
 
Howto "download" audio only from Youtube vids:

Code:
> youtube-dl -t [B]--extract-audio[/B] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXesX6mYUE

[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] CdXesX6mYUE: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] CdXesX6mYUE: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] CdXesX6mYUE: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Pitbull_-_International_Love_ft_Chris_Brown-CdXesX6mYUE.mp4
[download] 100.0% of 79.12M at    2.09M/s ETA 00:00
[ffmpeg] Destination: Pitbull_-_International_Love_ft_Chris_Brown-CdXesX6mYUE.aac

youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.x (x being at least 5), and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.

http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

It's included in homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew)

Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X.
 
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