DI reader Russell Tully is trying to record and save the audio from Youtube videos but without any success. Russ writes:
There are some rare music videos on 'youtube'. I very much want just the sound from these videos, but I've tried a number of different audio capture programs and I just can't seem to get any working - problem with sound card probably.Russ, you can easily save Youtube Videos as MP3 files but it's important to note that videos are subject to copyright and therefore it is important that you take permission from the video owner before ripping music from their video. However, if you are the owner of the video, you can download YouTube videos directly from the dashboard.
Surely there is a program that would allow me to record and save the audio from a flash video stream and record it to my HHD. I can't seem to use my sound card for the job. Is there any other way?
Rip Songs & MP3 Audio from YouTube Video
Directly from Youtube - The FLV Online Converter at Vixy.net can take Youtube Video URLs and provide you an MP3 audio file of the YouTube video.Extract Audio from FLV files - If the Youtube Video is on your hard-disk as an FLV video file, try the free FLV Extract utility that extracts video and audio from FLV files. The video is saved to .avi and the audio is saved to MP3.
The above trick can be applied to any video sharing website like MetaCafe, Vimeo, DailyMotion or Google Video.
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Reader Comments
another way is record sound without downloading flv is to open sound properties.
select the recording device as Stereo mix(usually it is microphone)
open run>sndrec32.
change the properties to Cd quality.
Then click record. and play the you tube video.
so its like whatever sound it played through sound card output is recorded internally.
a good suggestion is to set windows sound theme to no sounds. or else the click sound even will be recorded.
The sound quality is best at CD Quality setting in sndrec32.
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Written on 9/4/07 6:24 PM
Amit, do you know of any programs that can rip audio from mpeg or avi files. If so, plz respond.
Written on 9/4/07 6:58 PM
All,
One great way to rip audio from, well, anything you hear on your computer is by using audacity. Audacity is completely free and available from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You can also export to MP3, OGG, WAV, etc. Very easy to use, and highly effective.
Full source code is available - and I'm sure you can accomplish some pretty neat stuff by combining this with some other tools (scheduler, etc.)
http://www.GeeksWithBlogs.net/SanjayU/
Written on 9/4/07 7:21 PM
Isnt this something already visited at DI?
I guess we can also record with Audacity...
Written on 9/4/07 11:05 PM
FLV Parser is another tool to extract MP3 from downloaded flv file.Its meant for splitting flv files and extracting sound as mp3.Amit has written abt flv parser b4 in the '10 things you can do with youtube videos' post.
Written on 11/4/07 11:03 PM
Apparently theres a firefox plugin for doing this, anyone know what its called?
Written on 3/5/07 9:02 PM
is it possible to just download a video in youtube with the sound? cause i tried to download this video.. and it didn't have the sound.. >.<
Written on 29/7/07 3:19 PM