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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13 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

steveking said on : May 29th, 2008 at 1:46 am

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.

Product page: ww w.youtuberobot.com

geek said on : May 29th, 2008 at 6:57 am

I use a tool called Videoraptor, it can download videos and MP3 from youtube and also it can converts the files into the formats I need.

webcreation said on : May 30th, 2008 at 3:48 am

Watch YouTube HD – higher definition, and in couple of clicks download MP4 videos, check this site:

http://www.ouideo.com/youtube/

Really good !

Priya said on : June 19th, 2008 at 4:18 am

Thanks a ton .These tips are so handy,so helpful.Please keep posting such things. Good luck and thanks again

Crystal said on : July 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm

Thank you very much! I love this it’s helped me get enjoy my gadgets even more!
Best wishes to you

Alex said on : October 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

When I convert using the FLV.TO the music file I get shows up in iTunes as ridiculously long (15 minutes or so for a 2 minute song). When the song plays through it stops where should though and moves on, but when I drag into the “extra” space it puts me somewhere in the middle of the song.

aicode21 said on : October 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am

Thx man, great tips!

Get Audio From Video said on : January 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm

There are also lots of sites that do this, I’ve been using these guys lately: http://www.getaudiofromvideo.com/

Simple, clean and thats their only purpose!

Jessy said on : April 24th, 2009 at 2:56 am

useful info .
i had ever used wondershare flv converter and it can also convert youtube to mp3,mp4,m4a… if u would be interested,below is its download link:
http://www.flash-on-tv.com/flv-converter.html#135

elina said on : November 9th, 2009 at 1:04 am

i often use the Total Video Converter
it can convert video files at super fast speed and best video quality. It can convert video file between any video format such as converting AVI to MPEG, WMV to AVI, WMV to MPEG, MKV to AVI, MKV to MP4, etc.
and it provides an easy way to convert video files to popular audio file, like MP3, WMA, AC3, M4A, AAC etc.
http://www.useesoft.com/video-.....erter.html

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