Is there any easy way of ripping audio from a U-tube video and recording it in mp3 for output to a flash drive? I've tried the Audacity and LAME method but can't get it to work -probably me (had to buy WIN RAR for $30). I can get the audio okay using Audacity and think that I have all of the settings correct, but when I try to export the file it comes back with a message that it "can not find mp3 file".

Never tried it, but this is what I just found.

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/free-youtube-to-mp3-converter.htm

Usually I download the video and then convert using Format Factory or Freemake Video Converter.

Keep It

http://keepvid.com/

And it's free.

Edited September 26, 201213 yr by TommoPhysicist

Thanks for the info. I reloaded LAME and tried again and it worked so it must have been a "brain fart" the first time. I need the output in mp3 format and already paid for WIN RAR so I guess that I have what I want without opening another can of worms for me to F%*k up

Firefox extention called flashgot.

Just go on the page and right click

So easy.. have a look at all the plug ins / extentions available

Edited September 26, 201213 yr by eeeya

The best result is getting the original file and take the audio channel in raw format, I mean without any conversion.

the problem about ripping the audio or video from your PC output is that the representation have many filters or enhancement related to the codecs or programs that you have installed.

you can not get a high quality mp3 with the normal software for download, keepvid, jdownloader, utube catcher get a very poor mp3 audio.

The best is a bit complicated you need to download the highest quality of the video, and later use ffmpeg / avconv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avconv to extract the original audio form the video (mp3 or ac3 from youtube)

Never tried it, but this is what I just found.

http://www.dvdvideos...3-converter.htm

Usually I download the video and then convert using Format Factory or Freemake Video Converter.

I've been using this software for quite a while and it works like a dream - provides excellent quality MP3's from You Tube videos, without the need to download the video first. When you use it for the first time, make sure you get the output settings right.

This company also provides free software for downloading You Tube vids as videos in a variety of video formats. Also works very well.

When you download and close out the software, make sure you decline the offer of a tool bar etc as it comes up every time as a default option.

A small inconvenience for some really good free software.

jdownloader...works like a charm

Post removed recommending pirating a copy. Winrar is not free. Bit late obviously, but 7zip is free and can do pretty much everything Winrar can.

I use a thing called YTD Video Downloader, the Pro version is $20 but it works perfectly and that's all I need. It has the most popular output formats (includes MP3) and a choice of conversion qualities.

Format Factory Free

http://www.formatoz.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FormatFactory

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.

Provides functions below:

All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.

All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.

All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.

Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.

MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.

Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.

Edited September 26, 201213 yr by MJCM

Oh, if you're after a converter, get Super from erightsoft (Free).

http://www.dvdvideos...re-download.htm

Try this, after that you can not be without it.

http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

Never tried it, but this is what I just found.

http://www.dvdvideos...3-converter.htm

Usually I download the video and then convert using Format Factory or Freemake Video Converter.

I've been using this software for quite a while and it works like a dream - provides excellent quality MP3's from You Tube videos, without the need to download the video first. When you use it for the first time, make sure you get the output settings right.

This company also provides free software for downloading You Tube vids as videos in a variety of video formats. Also works very well.

When you download and close out the software, make sure you decline the offer of a tool bar etc as it comes up every time as a default option.

A small inconvenience for some really good free software.

The quality is so much better than keepvid, jdownloader or the general converters

I tested with an HQ jazz video, I downloaded in the high quality (720) and convert to mp3 with 320 bitrate,

Still I prefer not convert at all and get the original audio with ffmpeg.

The 320 bitrate mp3 is almost the same than the original only a little bit wet (using DJ headphones) with normal speaker/headphones not difference at all

But it's so more easy that doing command line with ffmpeg.

BTW I found this for Ubuntu

FFmpeg is used by many free (and proprietary) projects, including VLC, MPlayer, HandBrake, Plex, Blender, Google Chrome, YouTube, Facebook, ffmpeg2theora, and many other softwares specialy the converters

Edited September 26, 201213 yr by ITGabs

try http://www.listentoyoutube.com/ you don't need to install anything at all, just put the link to the video from youtube and wait a few minutes and that's it.

Edited September 26, 201213 yr by buenavad

Cancelled

Edited September 27, 201213 yr by wjhall

www.youtube-mp3.org

Just paste your url into this web site and it extracts and saves the audio as an mp3 file. Works perfectly and no software to download or install

Edited September 27, 201213 yr by wjhall

Another converter I like for those times when you don't have Internet is Hamster. Besides its cute name version 1 was a charm to use. I haven;t upgraded to ver 2 yet. but its there as well.

If I remember rightly tsMuxer will strip the audio from the video

Then you can easily drop it on a memory stick

Forget the rest: Freemake is simply brilliant. You can convert YouTube to MP4/AVI/WMV and more (video), or simply choose MP3, and get only the audio. It's a Chrome/Firefox plugin, unobtrusive and very efficient. It also lets you convert any of those formats to another for files you already have...one step, done.

I made this batch for windows, get the audio ffrom wherever downloaded file from youtube (and probably for many other sites) it's not a converter, take the sound channel directly from the video without any conversion let it the audio untouched in the same original format, mp3 and aac in less than 1 second!

The best HQ audio is getting these formats from youtube

(720p_VP8-Vorbis).webm (HTML5) or superior quality

(720p_H.264-AAC).mp4 (Flash) or superior quality

I am using jdownloader to get the HQ video... btw the mp3 that jdownloader download is the poorest quality, mp3 64kbps 22khz (FLV 240)

Instruction:

Put this code in a txt file and change the extension to audio_extractor.bat

Download the binaries FFMPEG.EXE and FFPROBE.EXE from http://ffmpeg.org/

put this 3 files in a folder with videos and run the audio_extractor.bat It will extract in some seconds the audio from all the videos (it's fast as hell, no conversion, no quality loses)

Note: I excluded 3gp becasue it's very low quality

:: @echo off
:: By ITGabs Audio Extractor Batch
:: include FFMPEG.EXE  http://ffmpeg.org/
:: include FFPROBE.EXE 
@SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
@FOR /r %%x IN (*.mp4 *.flv *.mov *.avi *.webm) DO (
@ECHO Processing "%%x" %1
@FFPROBE -i "%%x" > tmp.txt 2>&1 %1
@FOR /F "eol=; tokens=3,4 " %%i IN (tmp.txt) DO @IF "%%i"=="Audio:" @( %1
 @IF "%%j"=="vorbis," SET ext="ogg"%1
 @IF "%%j"=="mp3," SET ext="mp3"%1
 @IF "%%j"=="aac," SET ext="aac"%1
 @IF "%%j"=="vorbis" SET ext="ogg"%1
 @IF "%%j"=="mp3" SET ext="mp3"%1
 @IF "%%j"=="aac" SET ext="aac"%1
 ::echo !ext!  %1
 FFMPEG -i "%%~fx" -vn -acodec copy "%%~x.!ext!"%1
)  %1
@DEL /f tmp.txt %1
@SET ext= %1
) %1

I am doing a plugin for Firefox for making the same but in only one click per video/audio

you can download anything from You Tube with

You Tube downloader, this is a free tool. With this you can download either a music video or only the sound of it in MP3

Very easy to use and free of charge

Try it, cheers

Carlos