How To Extract Audio From YouTube Videos
ADVERTISEMENTSI have mentioned earlier on how to download YouTube Videos and save them on your computer inorder to view the videos offline. The videos are saved in a .flv extension that can be played with a FLV player.
What if you want to rip audio from YouTube videos? Or want to covert any FLV file to AVI,MOV,MP4 or MP3 format?
With the Online FLV Converter at Vixy, you can convert YouTube videos in other formats like AVI, MOV and MP4 or convert the video as an audio only file in the MP3 format. Vixy also lets you covert any FLV file to AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3 format online.
When you submit an URL, this service will download and convert the video to your desired format and lets you download the converted file. Vixy allows you to download online videos direct to PC, iPod and PSP for free.
The above trick can also be applied to other video sharing web sites like Google Video and MetaCafe.
If the YouTube Video is on your hard disk as an FLV file, you can use the free FLV Extract utility to extract audio and video from FLV files. The video is saved as AVI and the audio is saved as MP3.
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Posted on April 12th, 2007 | Category: Tutorials |
Vijay
April 12, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I just wonder if there are good enough videos at Youtube that warrant the audio to be preserved..
Nevertheless this can be useful
Gili
April 12, 2007 at 3:04 pm
: Of course there are! The selection is so huge that everyone can find something there
Thanks for the nice tip.
jake
April 12, 2007 at 8:28 pm
this is really interesting, never knew you could do this.
Madhur Kapoor
April 13, 2007 at 12:19 am
How is the quality of the sound ?
JohnTP
April 13, 2007 at 1:16 am
Madhur Kapoor- I tried extracting audio from a YouTube video, and the quality was good.
Ameyjah
April 13, 2007 at 9:37 pm
i think desktop softwares like super will do it, and online converter won’t help u so much, and quality is not also assured,
u can download riva encoder which will do it for you. plz visit my blog if u have time. bye
_AREV
April 14, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Hey, why is it that when i rip the audio from youtube videos using VIXY ONLINE FLV CONVERTER, the mp3 is like 48 minutes long? The video is like, only 5.48 mins long originally!
HELP, SOMEONE! AHHHH.
Thanks.
John
April 23, 2007 at 12:51 am
Hi _AREV,
Online downloader and ripper may not be fully customizable for your need.
I use Zillatube to ripe audio easily and it can be adjusted to my needs. I hope it can help you.
You can perform this operation on your other flv files offline conveniently.
In addition, it can also be used to download and convert youtube to other good quality videos.
By the way, you can grab it at…
http://www.zillatube.com
got to go now. bye. hope that helps
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Ahmad
May 9, 2007 at 7:47 pm
What is the danger of having YouTube Feed into your site? I own a videodating site, and was curious will it make my site slower?
Thanks,
Ahmad
http://www.ezluv.com
Gaetan Mathey
July 31, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Hi,
First I wanted to download some of the YouTube videos, then I wanted to extract the audio from some of these YouTube videos.
Instead of installing one/several softwares I decided to create simple applications online.
You may find them here:
Extract audio from Youtube videos (or others):
http://vmeste.fr/data/svs
Download and convert YouTube videos
http://vmeste.fr/data/convert
I will soon give the choice to get low or high quality for the extracted audio.
PS:
As it uses my server’s ressources I added some Google ads… That seems fair.
Mandeep Dalal
January 4, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Hi my name is Mandeep Dalal & i will tell you the simplest way to extrat videos from you tube & other website.Do not waste your money on softwares for this.
First of all download unlocker from
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
It is a freeware.
Install it.
Now play video on you tube in you browser.
Open
C:\Documents and Settings\Monu\Local Settings\Temp
Here monu is my user name but you have to type your user name for example :
C:\Documents and Settings\arnold\Local Settings\Temp
Now arrange icons by modified.
you will see a FLA.TMP file.
Make right click on it & copy it by unlocker.
Save it in your desired folder.
Rename it as FLA.FLV & Play it in your media player.
If you dont have player then download VLC MEDIA PLAYER.
THANKS.
och
January 10, 2008 at 3:48 am
i have had the same problem with the mp3’s being 48 minute long, its some error that i cant figure out but i have fixed the problem by renaming the songs from .mp3 to mpeg format
*mattster
January 18, 2008 at 4:53 am
for everyone having problems with long songs… throw them in itunes, right click and select “convert selection for iPod” and it makes the songs the correct lenght.
NRT
January 25, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I have been looking for this and never have heard of vixy.net before. THANK YOU!!!
joanne
February 20, 2008 at 7:15 pm
my problem is the exact opposite to what _AREV wrote…
when i rip the audio from a youtube video using VIXY ONLINE FLV CONVERTER, the mp3 is only 56 seconds long while the video was 7 mins and 21 sec long originally!
can anybody help me? please…
Kitsune
March 18, 2008 at 1:50 pm
joanne~
The video I was trying to rip the audio from was 2:33. The first time I tried to download the ripped audio, the .mp3 file was 0:39, so I tried 1) instead of saving the file, opening it with Windows Media Player and 2) downloading and saving the file again. BOTH the latter trials worked in getting an .mp3 that showed up as 2:27 long in Windows Media Player (a little shorter than the .flv?) — but as 18:30 in iTunes! So there are some weird quirks, but try downloading it again or a few times and playing the file through to see if it worked.
*mattster~
Thanks! I converted it to AAC and it ended up as a 2:34 file. Weird since it went through 2:33, 2:27, 18:30, THEN 2:34, but hey, it worked!
tadass
March 24, 2008 at 12:04 am
Go to http://www.extractvideo.com , then search and download YouTube video as .flv file. Now you can use free “ExtractVideo FLV Converter” (from http://www.extractvideo.com/resources/) and convert the .flv into .mp3
darth_mallen
April 10, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Vixy sucks! I tried to rip the audio from a youtube video and I only got a silent track 18 seconds long.
May 24, 2008 at 4:27 pm
You can grab any video from YouTube at
- all in one: you can search for videos, watch any videos, extract, browse by tag, etc.
June 16, 2008 at 12:07 am
I did it with this vid
and the size is 0.0 Kb, so i can’t listen to it, can you tell me
sean
July 5, 2008 at 2:30 am
Yeah, in itunes I just convert it from mpeg (the format it comes in) to mp3 and all is well.
Bill
July 11, 2008 at 7:14 pm
thats sweet my friend, thanks very much!
ale
July 22, 2008 at 9:03 pm
hey thanks!that’s exactly what I was looking for!
steveking
July 28, 2008 at 1:40 pm
YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.
YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.
Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.
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