ListenToYouTube Rips Audio From YouTube Vidoes To MP3

Lol, typo.

Isn't it a better method to just download the video and convert into MP3 format?

I built DamnVid to do that kind of thing, among others.
[code.google.com]

It's not as convenient as a web application though.

WindPowa

I built DamnVid to do that kind of thing, among others.
[code.google.com]

It's not as convenient as a web application though.

WindPowa

Yeah, but what's the bitrate quality of youtube audio? I mean I'm not a music snob but it seems like a crappy way to beef up your music collection.

Yeah, but what's the bitrate quality of youtube audio? I mean I'm not a music snob but it seems like a crappy way to beef up your music collection.

@TheEmperorofChaos:
This is much more straightforward.

@TheEmperorofChaos:
This is much more straightforward.

I just tried this with a six minute song and it only gave me the first 28 seconds of the song. Hmm....

I just tried this with a six minute song and it only gave me the first 28 seconds of the song. Hmm....

I just tried this with a six minute song and it only gave me the first 28 seconds of the song. Hmm....

Excellent timing, Lifehacker! I'd just found a vid with a song I wanted a ringtone from. Even though this results in a 64kbps monaural mp3, that's just fine for a ringtone (after a little snipping/fading w/ Audacity).

MichaelTV

Excellent timing, Lifehacker! I'd just found a vid with a song I wanted a ringtone from. Even though this results in a 64kbps monaural mp3, that's just fine for a ringtone (after a little snipping/fading w/ Audacity).

MichaelTV

Excellent timing, Lifehacker! I'd just found a vid with a song I wanted a ringtone from. Even though this results in a 64kbps monaural mp3, that's just fine for a ringtone (after a little snipping/fading w/ Audacity).

MichaelTV

if you're going to rip music from unauthorized uploads on youtube, then really it's just a lateral step to download a 320kbps mp3 album, or even a lossless flac or ape audio album.

if you're going to steal music, at least do it properly...

garbanzo-bean

This isn't really that useful now that YouTube has been muting videos with copyrighted music in them.

ManekiNeko

This isn't really that useful now that YouTube has been muting videos with copyrighted music in them.

ManekiNeko

I'm a big fan of KickYouTube - lets me download as video or audio, and I don't have to move between tabs or remember other URLs to do it: http://lifehacker.com/5109597/kickyoutubes-lets-you-download-videos-wi...

UrsaMabel

This is nothing new, I happen to prefer Elltube, which is an simple opensource program, which will convert a youtube video to whatever file you want...

GiacobbeDandogs

@garbanzo-bean: Yeah, but this isn't always for stealing music. Have you ever heard someone doing a piano or guitar rendition of a song, or something like that? Sometime's it's pretty good and it wouldn't be a bad idea to get an MP3 of it.

Platypus Man

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Aaron Lathrop

chocolate rain... for workouts!

Aaron Lathrop

@garbanzo-bean: HAHA Youtube is the gateway drug of internet piracy.

That said, whenever I have done this in the past it wasn't for a music video, but for a lecture, or a tv interview, or something like that.

azpat

@garbanzo-bean: HAHA Youtube is the gateway drug of internet piracy.

That said, whenever I have done this in the past it wasn't for a music video, but for a lecture, or a tv interview, or something like that.

azpat

@garbanzo-bean:
it is not for music.
youtube is full of seminars or discussions where audio alone is just fine.
i ve been using "free flv converter" for sometime but this site seems to be a better alternative . Some seminars are 500mb videos, this saves me downloading the whole file.

AlainT

@garbanzo-bean:
it is not for music.
youtube is full of seminars or discussions where audio alone is just fine.
i ve been using "free flv converter" for sometime but this site seems to be a better alternative . Some seminars are 500mb videos, this saves me downloading the whole file.

AlainT

I use this site to download music to my school laptop, where I don't want to have any kind of file-sharing program installed. Yes, the quality isn't that great, and sometimes it messes up, but I still love this site.

Jmclark

I use this site to download music to my school laptop, where I don't want to have any kind of file-sharing program installed. Yes, the quality isn't that great, and sometimes it messes up, but I still love this site.

Jmclark

@ManekiNeko: lol this is one of the reasons...

The-Joker

@ManekiNeko: lol this is one of the reasons...

The-Joker

@TheEmperorofChaos:

Exactly what I do. I use Flash Video Downloader plugin for Firefox, then just rip the audio from the video into an mp3. That way I have the video file and I have an audio file version.

@MichaelTV: This sounds perfect! My friend's daughter was just saying how she wanted to use that stupid Filet o' Fish jingle as a ringer.

She's going to be required to keep it on vibrate when she comes over, though...

@anonymousryan: Non high-quality vids on youtube are 64kbit/s mono mp3, and sampled at 22.05kHz. High quality are 128kbit/s stereo AAC sampled at 44.1kHz. HD videos have 232kbit/s stereo AAC audio sampled at 44.1kHz.

Basically, unless you're ripping straight AAC out of an HD video, it's not a good way to build a music collection.

sn1per420

Just getting the download link with KeepVid and then using ffmpeg to rip the mp3 works better, and faster too.

MePerson

"Completing file processing...
500.shtml - server error. we will be back soon"

This happend with Opera, FF and IE with 3 different videos. I think il stick to downloading the videos and ripping the audio myself.

[www.flv2mp3.com] does the same thing. Have been using it for years when needed. Never fails.

chapoec

@thom_vee: just remember to untick the ask.com toolbar during installation

thom_vee

Try this - [www.dvdvideosoft.com]
It gives options to convert to mp3(256, 128 or 64kbps) or WAV.

thom_vee

@TheEmperorofChaos: Normally yes, but if you were on a slow connection and only wanted the audio, this would help since the removal of the video is done on their server.

PsychedelicsSquid

@anonymousryan: But if you just want to download something speech-based, or with only light music, the quality doesn't tend to matter so much.

PsychedelicsSquid

@chapoec: Another flv2mp3.com user here... works a charm

falter

I use this a lot, but it can screw up the mp3 index as well, so a three minute song for example will be 54 minutes for example and I cant fast forward for example :-( But it is fast and easy to use.

Benjamin Shaw

I've always used [vixy.net], but yeah since most youtube audio is mono I wouldn't be adding these to my iphone library.

jordan314

@sn1per420: "Free Youtube to Mp3 Converter" can rip 256kbps at 48000Hz Stereo. You just have to add "&fmt=18" at the end of every url!

btw, it is far more comfy to use this program because you can rip several videos and not just one...

I've used this since day one, and it's great.

Nice tool, I'd also like to recommend this YouTube to MP3 Converter, it's easy to use and works pretty well.

colarmac

@The-Joker: Ha, I suppose you're right!

Before Mute-gate, I used to make audio-only recordings of music videos using WavePad, then put the MP3s on my player to listen to them later. However, the sound quality was so sketchy that I wound up paying for the songs later. Hooray for Amazon... no DRM, and none of that $1.29 crap!

ManekiNeko

Tryed it, works fast but the quality is.... miserable.
Lots of stutter and cracks that where not in the vid.

idenwen

I use a combination of the "View This Page in IE" button, and the RealPlayer YouTube Ripper (which doesn't work in Firefox 3). Worked like a charm for the Yoyo Ma performance at the Inauguration...

thnx chapoec, good link

Hamburgler Gromitt

i use ConvertTube and free YouTube downloader.

They both work great for converting online YouTube video to mp3.

dudude

I just use a Greasemonkey script called Download from Youtube that places download links under every video.

I then download the MP4 files, and play them as audio in an awesome little player called Trout.

No need to convert anything and I can still play the same files as video too.

Greasemonkey script: [userscripts.org]
Trout: [www.donationcoder.com]

Yeah... I got the same thing too...

HazelEndeis

What about copyright infringement? Basically your ripping the background music, or in some cases the video itself and creating an mp3 file. Whats the difference between that and taking a friends copy of a cd and burning it on your computer. Your not paying for it? Sounds criminal to me, but that's just me. I'm weird that way..

SomalakshmiSarpedon