# How to: convert audio on youtube videos to .mp3
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [October 18, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202 "2007-10-18T10:46:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/1 "2007-10-18T10:46:14Z")
Soooo much music available on youtube, here’s how to get it into an mp3
(some of this is covered in another thread)
1. Find the video on youtube
2. Paste the link into [www.videodl.org](http://www.videodl.org)
3. Click “get it”
4. After a second or two a link appears under the URL you just pasted called “download link”
5. Right click it and choose “save as”
6. Save the file as _the artist_ - _the title_. **FLV** _YOU HAVE TO SAVE IT AS .FLV_
7. Download and instal SUPER from [http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html](http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html)
8. Open Super
9. Drag the .FLV file into the big white box on the SUPER program
10. In the top left corner pull down menu for “[Select the Output Container]” choose mp3 (audio only)
11. Select the audio options you wish to output (i use a sampling frequency of 44100, 2 channels w/ a bitrate of 128)
12. Click the encode button at the bottom. It always saves it in weird spots, you might need to search around.
That’s how i do it anyway… there may be easier ways.
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### Author:  [@Saleenboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Saleenboy)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/2 "2007-10-18T10:48:47Z")
using audacity and just recording it while the song is playing is another and easier
and you can save it as a wav or mp3 or both
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/3 "2007-10-18T10:49:22Z")
[quote=“Saleenboy,post:2,topic:37202"”]
using audacity and just recording it while the song is playing is another and easier
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i’ve never had good resolution when i live record using programs like that…
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/4 "2007-10-18T11:10:33Z")
nice. easier than recording it with your sound card fo sho
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### Author:  [@SVT3945](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SVT3945)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/5 "2007-10-18T11:28:13Z")
anyone know how to save and view .FLV video files?? for example the type that youporn uses.
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### Author:  [@suzukiriderman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/suzukiriderman)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/6 "2007-10-18T12:33:53Z")
Well to save video if your using Firefox, you can use the Videodownloader add-on and to play back I use Riva Videoplayer.
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### Author:  [@SVT3945](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SVT3945)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/7 "2007-10-18T12:50:07Z")
IE7 ??
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/8 "2007-10-18T13:06:02Z")
[quote=“SVT3945,post:5,topic:37202"”]
anyone know how to save and view .FLV video files?? for example the type that youporn uses.
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just follow my instructions to step 6.
quicktime will play the FLV, free from apple.
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### Author:  [@87FOXGT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/87FOXGT)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/9 "2007-10-18T14:02:51Z")
cool, any idea how good the quality is though bitrate wise?
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/10 "2007-10-18T14:04:48Z")
[quote=“87FOXGT,post:9,topic:37202"”]
cool, any idea how good the quality is though bitrate wise?
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i don’t know what the flashplayer bitrate is. I imagine it’s set by youtube. (looks to be 80kbps) It sounds fine for what it is.
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### Author:  [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/11 "2007-10-18T14:27:37Z")
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### Author:  [@snowracer101](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowracer101)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/12 "2007-10-18T17:19:35Z")
can this be done using a mac?
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/13 "2007-10-23T12:49:55Z")
been doing this all day.
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/14 "2007-10-23T15:24:49Z")
[quote=“sedlmeier101,post:12,topic:37202"”]
can this be done using a mac?
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Very easily if your using safari…
Load the vid on youtube, wait until its done…
Click on window, then select activity… click on the little arrow to drop down the items from the current youtube page. Find the big one, thats the video… Double click on it, and it wil start downloading it to your desktop. Its named Get\_Video.flv
Then i believe iDVD or iMovie HD can rip the audio from that track and save it to mp3 or whatever…
But its not exactly going to sound good, but most people somehow dont notice the difference, so… w/e…
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### Author:  [@Griff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Griff)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/15 "2007-10-23T15:51:53Z")
total recorder \> \*
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### Author:  [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/16 "2007-10-23T17:13:41Z")
Awesome :tup:
Great for those hard to find songs and it even has an option to convert video to zune format,it just so happens I got one in the mail today. 😃
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### Author:  [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/17 "2007-10-29T15:20:22Z")
any way to get music off sites like these:
[http://www.purevolume.com/albums/pillar/fortheloveofthegame](http://www.purevolume.com/albums/pillar/fortheloveofthegame)
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### Author:  [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-convert-audio-on-youtube-videos-to-mp3/37202/18 "2008-04-22T06:10:30Z")
Bumping anyone try this on Hulu or know of a site that can do it? I am at work right now, but trying to figure out how to get content for my new Zune.