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Video - MP3 Converter for Youtube?
01-16-2011, 09:20 PM
I've tried doing a search on the boards here, but for once my google-fu seems insufficient.
Someone here within the last 6 months or so (in fact I'm pretty sure within the last 3) mentioned and/or had a link to a converter that would turn the audio of a Youtube video into a decent to good quality MP3 format.
Right now I'm interested in just that one function - extraction of the audio from the video. Anybody got a recommended program/link?
(Sure, I could google for this sort of thing, but I trust you guys more to send me to something good that doesn't have malware etc in it. ^_^)
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YouTube Downloader?
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
It can't convert Real Aduio though.
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If you've already got an flv file, you can extract the audio and convert it to mp3 with Avidemux.
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http://www.listentoyoutube.com/index.php
might be what you're thinking of Logan.
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I use http://www.vidtomp3.com/index.php
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This firefox addon includes a function that'll convert video from .flv to about any format, including mp3. If you're running Linux I'd recommend it, since the Linux version uses ffmpeg to do the encoding, which you can install yourself, while the windows version requires you to download their own compiled version of FFMpeg and pay about 20 dollars to unlock the mp3 functionality. (Though they do provide sources).
I just pulled the audio from this video quite happily, though it took one or two goes before I remembered that the Ubuntu ffmpeg doesn't come with mp3 support by default, you have to add it from the medibuntu repository. Or compile from source yourself.
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Dartz, I tried the Video Download Helper, and while it does a great job, I discovered it was slowing down my entire system when I had more than a couple browser windows open at once -- and by slowing down I mean a couple times a minute the system would seem to freeze for 2 or 3 seconds. It was very annoying. It took me a bit of trial and error to narrow it down to VDH, but now that it's off my system I'm not having to wait three seconds for a context menu to appear or a cursor to show up in an edit field.
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That's very strange. I've never had any sort of issue like that and I've had it on my system for quite a while. My current Firefox version is 3.6.13, on Xubuntu Linux, maybe that's the difference.
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I run VDH on Windows 7 (64 bit), using Firefox , and have not noticed any slowdown.
Well, that's not quite true -- when I choose to save a vid, the entire system slows for half a second or so while Windows scans all my local drives (again, rarrgh!) in order to show me the Save As dialog box. But that happens with every program, and is not a fault with VDH.
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Could be my system, then... Win 7, yes, but 32-bit, and an older dual-core processor.
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VDH is what I've used before to grab things from Youtube (though I don't have it on this system), but I'd probably still go with Avidemux for the conversion process. The whole conversion arrangement in VDH seems rather convoluted, and Avidemux is a useful tool anyway.
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I don't bother with converting, usually -- VNCPlayer will quite happily spew forth my FLV or MP4 encoded downloads.
I seem to recall using it to strip out MP3 audio once, as well, but I might be misremembering.
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