Convert YouTube videos to MP3, MP4, WAV

Posted on April 25, 2008 at 5:31 am

Need a YouTube video in MP3 format? Maybe you just finished watching Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne for the 50th time on YouTube? With almost 81 million views, the video is popular! For goodness sake, why not just download it once and for all, convert it to MP3, and listen to it wherever you go!

Avril’s not for me, but there are definitely a ton of music videos I wouldn’t mind downloading into MP3 format from YouTube. Once you have it in MP3 format, you can use iTunes and transfer it to your iPod or other mobile device.

Record YouTube videos to MP3

As with everything on the Internet, there are like 10 different ways to do this! You can either download a YouTube video as an FLV file and then convert the FLV to MP3. Or you can use some free online tools to do the whole thing for you! Hmmm…I’ll go for the second method, but if you really like to waste time, I’ll tell you the other way also.

By far the easiest way to do this is to use FLV.TO, which is an online FLV to MP3 converter.

You can either upload a file to convert it or (the cool part) paste in a URL for the video you want to convert. I know it works for YouTube, but I’m not sure about other video sharing sites.

The conversion is fairly fast and the download starts automatically once your file is finished converting. You can click on the link if the download does not start automatically.

That’s it! Super simple and very effective. Another very easy way to convert YouTube videos to MP3 is ZamZar. Zamzar has the disadvantage of being slower to convert a video and also slow to email you the final download link, so you have to wait some time on it.

However, Zamzar is cool because you can convert your YouTube video to MP3, MP4, 3GP, AAC, AC3, iPhone format, iPod format, OGG, or WAV. It’s freakin awesome!

In Step 2, just choose the desired format for your your video. You can also use Zamzar to convert YouTube videos to other video formats, such as MOV and AVI.

If either of those sites are not working for you, check out Media Converter, a great site for audio and video converting. The cool thing about Media Converter is that you can convert a video directly from a video sharing site, upload a file on your computer, or convert a video or audio file by direct URL!

The last option is very handy because it means you can convert a video that’s stored on a friends server or any other location directly without having to download it.

Also, you can check out the following sites too if need be:

http://www.youconvertit.com/

http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/

http://www.vixy.net

Actually, me writing computer tips to make life more productive, it would be wrong for me to even write about how to first download and then convert your video as it’s completely unnecessary! So hopefully, one of the 10 links above will get your YouTube video into the audio format of your choice! Enjoy!

If you liked this post, you might be interested in more converting tricks, such as how to convert PDF to JPG.

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3 Responses to “Convert YouTube videos to MP3, MP4, WAV”

Siddharth said on : April 25th, 2008 at 9:17 am

Nice Tip

Jan said on : May 8th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

pretty cool, had trouble finding where the file was saved in my computer,but i found it. this is genius. thanks

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