Ubuntu: How to Extract Audio From YouTube Video
Often, you have heard a rare nice song from a particular YouTube video and you wish you could just save that song (without the video) into your hard disk. Well, in Ubuntu, you can use UTube Ripper to extract audio from YouTube video and save it as mp3 file.
UTube Ripper is an application that works exclusively on Linux. It’s useful to download and convert YouTube videos in a simple and efficient way. While there are many online sites that can take the YouTube url, extract the audio and let you download the mp3 file, it gives you little room for customization. UTube Ripper provides more choices and allows you to set the conversion sample rate and bit rate. It can also convert the flv file to MPEG or avi video format.
Install UTube Ripper
Download the UTube Ripper deb file to your desktop.
Double click the file to start installation. This will fetch and install all its dependencies.
Once installed, go to Applications -> Internet -> Utube ripper.
Now, on http://www.youtube.com, find your favorite video and the song that you want to extract. Copy the exact url and paste it to the text field in the ‘Utube Video URL’ section
. Press ‘Download’ to start download the flv file to your computer. The downloaded file will be saved as video.flv under the /home/yourusername/.utube folder.
To extract mp3, check ‘Rip audio only‘ under the ‘Convert FLV’ section. Click ‘Browse’, navigate to the /.utube folder and select the file video.flv. Click ‘Convert’ to start the conversion. The mp3 file will be saved as audio.mp3. Rename the mp3 file and move it to other folder (else it will be overwritten in the next conversion).
To adjust the sampling rate and bit rate, click on the ‘Setting’ . You can customize the video output type, audio output type, audio sample rate, audio bit rate, video bit rate, video screen resolution.
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Tags: Linux, MP3, Ubuntu, Youtube Downloader
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cool,
bfore this i only save youtube to .flv files using “cp” command only. now i can save them to .mp3
;)
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I use online video converter, and here is another guide that told two detailed ways to download video audio from youtube
http://www.aimersoft.com/tutorial/free-download-youtube-video.html
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lazerer Reply:
December 9th, 2008 at 3:01 am
It also describes about how to transfer the youtube video to iPod.
Nice tutorial.
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Very nice, works fine, contrary to the FF method after some alterations at youtube.
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I just found a professional MKV converter, here share with you: http://www.aimersoft.com/mkv-converter.html
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Good information.
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Works well, thanks for the tut :)
Web-based YouTube audio extractors like http://www.getaudiofromvideo.com do a good job as well. <3
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There’s also a free, fast, browser-based, open-source site for downloading YouTube audio/video:
http://www.youtensils.org
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in http://www.abcyoutube.com you can download youtube video as mp3 and mp4 and flv…
just type ABC before youtube video link, and enter.
like http://www.abcyoutube.com/watch?v=X3vB5XJnm5A
…
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Utube Ripper is not writing a video.flv file to ~/.utube after successful download
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What I am using is another popular Youtube Converter program: Pavtube Youtube Converter.
It can download and convert Youtube FLV videos to other common video and audio formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3, etc.
I prefer the program as its after-sale service is good. Last week, I encountered a problem and sent it to them, they replied and solved my problem on time.
So I think when choosing an appropriate program for ourselves, we should consider not only its quality, functions, but also its after-sale service.
For more information please refer to: http://www.pavtube.com/youtube-converter/
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