Hey everyone! I often upload videos of my talks and performances on YouTube, usually keeping them unlisted to share with just my friends. I'm looking for a straightforward and reliable way to extract the audio in MP3 format from these videos. I want to avoid anything sketchy, like sites full of ads or malware—just something clean and hassle-free that gets the job done. If you have any tools or websites you personally recommend, I would really appreciate your suggestions. Thanks!
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If you have the original video files, you could use something like Handbrake to extract the audio, or even a video editor on your system to just output audio. It keeps things simple since you already have the files!
Another option is using websites like halimoglu.com/mp3 or tools like Freetube or YouTube-dl. They’re designed for what you need and are pretty safe too!
You might want to check out YT-DLP. It's a free command line tool for downloading YouTube videos. Once you install it alongside FFMPEG, you can run a command to extract audio like this:
yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 320K your-youtube-link
It's pretty straightforward and gives you a high-quality MP3!
Yeah, those are good picks! I’ve used YouTube-dl a couple of times without any issues.