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Program For Ripping Audio From Youtube Clips?

beau21

beau21

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Apr 1, 2008
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hey guys.

i'm looking for a program where I can take a YouTube clip and get just the sound from it. I have Miro right now and unless I'm missing something I've only found how to rip the video from YouTube and it puts it in a .flv format

any help?

or a way to maybe convert .flv to .mp3?
 
tubesock will rip a video from youtube, then i'm sure there's a program that can take the audio off that.
 
Just use Get Tube, and be sure to set the output file format to audio and you're all set.
 
Stuipdboy1000 said:
No need for software. Go here: http://vidtomp3.com/
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You are definitely a life (and money) saver! I had the same question, but was going to purchase a stereo that records music onto cd's and connect my computer to it so I can rip the songs. How much more simple and affordable your post is!!!! I'm heading to the site now, thanks so much.
 
Well, I just tried my first conversion but in itunes when I click on the file to play the song, it automatically skips over to the next song. any suggestions why?
 
I would use TubeTV to rip the video, save it to your disk as an .MP4 file. Then open the MP4 file in QuickTime (*Pro) -- extract the audio, then export the audio as an AIFF file. Open the AIFF file in iTunes and then compress as MP3.

Then, you will have an MP3 of the Audio off a YouTube file.

Cheers.
 

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Vidtomp3 a spam trigger

It was suggested that to rip audio from Youtube to a Mac as an MP3 file one can simply use vidtomp3.com. I tried this and was forced to complete a survey that sought to capture personal information, followed by a requirement that I provide at least two merchants from a list with contact information before I would be permitted to hear the MP3 file that had been created. The site does not warn users of this. Meanwhile I experienced a new problem: multiple web pages began appearing behind the vidtomp3.com screen advertising all sorts of products.

I chose to pass on it. You may want to as well.
 
dougf14 said:
It was suggested that to rip audio from Youtube to a Mac as an MP3 file one can simply use vidtomp3.com. I tried this and was forced to complete a survey that sought to capture personal information, followed by a requirement that I provide at least two merchants from a list with contact information before I would be permitted to hear the MP3 file that had been created. The site does not warn users of this. Meanwhile I experienced a new problem: multiple web pages began appearing behind the vidtomp3.com screen advertising all sorts of products.

I chose to pass on it. You may want to as well.
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I was able to use it successfully without having to complete a survey or having any pop-ups.
 
brinkmann said:
I was able to use it successfully without having to complete a survey or having any pop-ups.
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I completed the download successfully as well. There was no survey however there was a background pop up.

Make sure you click the link which is marked as "Download MP3"

DO NOT click the big blue download buttons towards the middle/bottom of the screen as these are re-directs.

edit: Then on the following screen click the round "Download MP3" button. Your cursor WILL NOT change when you hover over it (like all the other links on the page.) Just put your cursor over it and click and the save window will come up.
 
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MPEG Streamclip is the best for this! You can download it for free, and it's a wonderful little program. Add .flv when you rename the download, and it will ask you if you want to. Say yes. Then play it in MPEG Streamclip. It has a choice list, where you can export just the audio, and you have different choices as to type and options. Plus you can save movies in different formats, and combine clips to make movies.

Even more fun, if you're playing a movie, you can pause it and save the frame as a picture. I got a great picture of my mother and I this way. It's really been a great and simple program. No fuss.

Here's the link:

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
 
I use Safari and Quicktime 7 and iTunes.

1. first download the FLVL
open in safari
click window/activity and double click the big file downloading.
This will save it into your Downloads folder

2. then open the FLV in QT7 and export the audio to wav

3. convert to mp3 in iTunes.

Its not 1-step - but it does use the basic programmes apple gave you.
 
Not sure exactly what the plug in is called...but if you use Firefox there are a couple of different options. It actually gives you an extra button while viewing on youtube's site...a button to "convert to mp3". I've tried several of the other options in this thread, but I've found using FF plugins to be very simple, one click and efficient way to convert the video's audio to mp3

Ymmv

J
 
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