1 April 2019 John Weaver Senior Program Developer
Summary
Being one of the most popular video sharing websites, YouTube allow users to share their videos on it. Then how can we download music in YouTube video to local disk and save as MP3 with high quality? Download and convert methods here may help you.
Approach 1: FFmpeg (Make it with command line)
Before converting YouTube video to mp3 with FFmpeg, you need to download target YouTube video to computer. Please try methods in “How to download YouTube video” if you do not know how to download YouTube video. Then please convert the downloaded YouTube video to MP3 with FFmpeg. If you do not know much about FFmpeg, please go to approach 2 and try the best free YouTube to mp3 converter directly. ② Press Win + R button to open “Run” and then type in CMD and click “OK”.
③ After the command prompt window opened, please enter the following command [C:\Windows\System32\ffmpeg.exe –i E:Renee.mp4 E:Renee.mp3] and press “Enter” to run the command.
④ Please wait until the FFmpeg convert the video in MP4 or other video format to MP3 audio file.
Command Definition:
C:\Windows\System32\ffmpeg.exe: the path of FFmpeg
–I is followed by the path, name and format of the target video and the converted audio file.
Approach 2: [Free!] Audio Recording Function in Renee Audio Tool
Renee Audio Tools, a free audio editing tool, provides multiple audio edit functions which can fulfill your different needs of audio editing. It can also be one of the best free Youtube to MP3 converter. Professional Audio Editing Software–Renee Audio Tools
- Music Recording – Helps user record sounds from streaming media and save in different audio formats. Besides, schedule recording function and auto start-stop recording can help user save disk space.
- Cut Music – Users can cut clips from music file in any formats like MP3, AAC, FLAC, APE, etc. Also, fade in, fade out, play speed changing, voice changer and volume adjustment are also provided.
- Join Music – Support to join music files in MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, APE etc into one. Besides, users can even set the format and quality of the output music file.
- ID3 Editor – Helps user to edit labels like name, arties, album, year, category and album image of the music file.
- Audio Format Convert – Support inter-conversion among different audio formats like MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG, AAC and FLAC. It can also convert videos in to MP3 audio format.
- Transfer Music to iTuness – Users can upload music to iTunes with Renee Audio Tools. (Need to install iTunes beforehand.)
- Burn Music to CD – Helps user burn loved music to CD or DVD. Also can export such music files in ape or bin image.
- Download Music in CD – Users can save the music files with high quality form CD to computer in MP3, AAC, FLAC, etc.
① Download and install Renee Audio Tools to computer.
② Launch Renee Audio Tools and click “Recorder” function.
③ Select “Computer sounds” and then please set the output format and saving location for the recorded file. Then please open the target video in YouTube. Please click “Record” before you play the video in YouTube.
④ After the video is finished, please click “Stop” button and the recorded audio will be saved in the set position.
Approach 3: YTD Video Downloader
① Download and install YTD Video Download from the following link:
https://www.ytddownloader.com/download.html.
② Open the software and click the tab “Download”. Then please paste the url of the target YouTube video to related space. Select the desired audio quality and click “DOWNLOAD”.
③ Wait for the download finish. (The download speed of this tool is slowly.) After download finish, please click the tab “Convert”.
④ Select the downloaded video and select the output format – MP3 and the conversion quality. Then click “CONVERT VIDEO”.
The download and conversion speed of this tool is very slow. If you want more functions like converting the YouTube video to MP3 with high quality automatically, you need to pay for it.
Approach 4: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter
Free version of this Youtube to MP3 converter only supports to download video/audio beyond 3 minutes. And users often encounter errors when downloading. If you want to get the high quality music, you need to pay for the full version.
① Download and install Free YouTube to MP3 Converter from the following link:
https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/download.htmfname=FreeYouTubeToMP3Converter.exe&ls=topWinPrimary.
② Open the target video in YouTube and copy the link of page.
③ Click “Paste” button in the software and then please select a desired MP3 quality from the list and click “Download”.
① Download and install ClipGrab from the following link:
https://download.clipgrab.org/clipgrab-3.8.2-cgorg.exe.
② Open the target video in YouTube and copy the link of page.
③ Open ClipGrab and then please paste the link in “Download”. ClipGrab will find all necessary information of the video.
④ Select MP3 in the format list and desired audio quality. Finally, click “Get this video” and you will download and save the video in MP3 format.
Approach 6: 4K Video Downloader
4K Video Download is a free video download software. And we can download YouTube video in MP3 format with it as well.
① Download and install 4K Video Downloader from the following link:
https://dl.4kdownload.com/app/4kvideodownloader_4.5.0_x64.msi?source=website.
② Open the target video in YouTube and copy the link of page.
③ Click “Paste link” button in the software and then paste the link to relate place.
④ After analysis, just select the output format MP3 and desired audio quality in the download window. Finally, click “Download”.
Approach 7: MediaHuma YouTube to MP3
① Download and install MediaHuma YouTube to MP3 from the following link:
https://www.mediahuman.com/download.html.
② Open the target video in YouTube and copy the link of page.
③ Click “Paste link” button in MediaHuma YouTube to MP3 to paste the link.
④ Click the download button near the video and you will get the MP3 file from the video.
Approach 8: Convert YouTube Video to MP3 with Converto Online
Converto, a free online video / audio converter, only can help users to make easy conversion. And the download link is valid in 24 hours.
① Open Coverteo Online: https://www.converto.io/en
② Open the target video in YouTube and copy the link of page.
③ Paste the link to the location column. Then it will search for the video automatically.
④ Select the output format MP3 and click “Convert”.
⑤ After conversion finished, please click “Click here” and you can save the YouTube video to MP3.