For total control of editing/cropping/encoding etc, I use Audacity.Quick question, what is the best program to go from YouTube to mp3?
There are several concert clips I’d like to add to my collection. Thanks in advance.
You can also just set Youtube to play at the highest possible quality and record the audio stream as a wav file with software that interfaces with your soundcard but that's a little trickier than extracting and converting; at least in my experience.Quick question, what is the best program to go from YouTube to mp3?
There are several concert clips I’d like to add to my collection. Thanks in advance.
For total control of editing/cropping/encoding etc, I use Audacity.
The MP4 at the highest quality/bit rate is saved via any online video extractor and then opened in audacity as just audio.
From there, you can encode it how you like.
I like to match the source audio bit rate to the MP3 I'm wanting to make - as you can't make 320 out of 128 even if a website says it can.
The reason I don't suggest some web page you throw the video URL at and it then makes a MP3 is that there are so many and they are changing/closing daily or not allowing audio/specifically music tracks via YouTube - defeating the object in the first place.
I'm sure someone will suggest a web form MP3 maker, but the above gives you much more control/consistent results.
Regards,
FWD.
Can't speak for Mac, but indeed you can on PC with an Audacity bolt-on called FFmpeg library which treats the video MP4 exactly as an audio file.Hi FWD, I use You Tube to MP3 programme on my Mac to get the sound file on my computer and then import into Audacity to enhance the sound. Are you saying you can directly import into Audacity from You Tube?