How to Extract a Song from YouTube (or other Video Sites)
Step 1 - Downloading the video
If you don’t have Firefox go get it here, and install it.
Install the DownloadHelper extension - using Firefox go to the bottom of that page, and click Install now.
After installing you need to restart Firefox to continue. After the restart you will have a new button on the toolbar, looking like a little person.
Go to the YouTube page from which you want to download the video (in this case here). Note you can use this extension to download flv files from other video sites (like Google Video) too.
The person on the toolbar icon will start to rotate. Click on the arrow beside it, and click on the first choice. The flash file containing the video will start to download. (click Ctrl+J to open the download window if it doesn’t open automatically)
When the download is finished, right click on the downloaded file, and choose “Open Containing Folder”. There you should have the flash (flv) file. Copy it to the Desktop.
(Alternatively you can try YouTube downloader site.
Just paste the address of the YouTube video there, and click “Get Download URL”.
When you do that, you will be given an URL from which to d/l the file.
When I tried this, the file was downloaded, but I had to rename the file, and give it flv extension.
But once you do that, you should be OK) Step 2 - Extracting the music
Once the program starts, click the “Add Files” button, and choose the flv file you copied to the Desktop.
Change some of the options if you want, choose where to export the mp3 file, and press the big orange Start button.
If everything is OK, the extraction will start, and you will get mp3 file in the folder you chose.
Or you can use Vixy service, which does (I didn’t try) the transformation automatically and let you download the result. If you are not interested in having control over some details of the transformation, just go to Vixy, paste there the YouTube address, and choose MP3 transformation. BTW, I don’t know if it works with other video sites.
Re: How to Extract a Song from YouTube (or other Video Sites)
Thanks, I was wanting to make this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xJL5YFKrWs8
into a MP3. I wanted to make a ring tone out of it. So I figured I would share.
BTW: I did make it a MP3, so if anyone wants it....
Its part of a plugin on my firefox not. I use to to record whatever I want from whatever sound source is playing it. Remember the days when Creative sound cards had that "what you hear" feature- and it actually worked? This is pretty much bringing that feature to you with out the Creative hardware or any of the filters and copyright protector crap thats out there now on everything. Its simple as hell, dont get it confused- three clicks and you got it.
Click 1- Open program
Click 2- Click record
Click 3- Click stop
Click 4- Open saved file
Its part of a plugin on my firefox not. I use to to record whatever I want from whatever sound source is playing it. Remember the days when Creative sound cards had that "what you hear" feature- and it actually worked? This is pretty much bringing that feature to you with out the Creative hardware or any of the filters and copyright protector crap thats out there now on everything. Its simple as hell, dont get it confused- three clicks and you got it.
Click 1- Open program
Click 2- Click record
Click 3- Click stop
Click 4- Open saved file
Re: How to Extract a Song from YouTube (or other Video Sites)
Well, being I do my music thing on the side, I really cant stand listening to crappy recordings on $300 headphones or $1K studio monitors. You have LOTS of options. I record in 44,100kHz, 16 bit stereo / 320Kbps MP3. (you also got options to record in qualities as low as 32kbps, including the most popular higher qualities as well- 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320 Kbps) I have it setup for automatic time stamping with filename prefixes. You can also specify file folders to save to, set it up to ask for a file name before or after the recording. Its def a great little program.
Here is another option that I was trying out the other day, although I still like freecorder better- this guy has different features though. "This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online." This works well if you dont want to install anything and just want something you can use at work or on a public machine that does not give you permissions to install anything.
heres the link: http://vixy.net/
Re: How to Extract a Song from YouTube (or other Video Sites)
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Originally Posted by TRIZ
Well, being I do my music thing on the side, I really cant stand listening to crappy recordings on $300 headphones or $1K studio monitors. You have LOTS of options. I record in 44,100kHz, 16 bit stereo / 320Kbps MP3. (you also got options to record in qualities as low as 32kbps, including the most popular higher qualities as well- 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320 Kbps) I have it setup for automatic time stamping with filename prefixes. You can also specify file folders to save to, set it up to ask for a file name before or after the recording. Its def a great little program.
Here is another option that I was trying out the other day, although I still like freecorder better- this guy has different features though. "This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online." This works well if you dont want to install anything and just want something you can use at work or on a public machine that does not give you permissions to install anything.
heres the link: http://vixy.net/
thanks Vixy was posted in the original post. I found that Vixy is temperamental. sometimes it is fast, other times it won't start.
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