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I would like to hear Linus' talk about Git from youtube on my way to work, which means I'm looking for an elegant way to extract .wav or .mp3 from a youtube video.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Udi

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Isn't this illegal? – JohnB Nov 8 '11 at 17:25
Not if it's allowed by the video owner. – Adam Matan Nov 14 '11 at 21:44
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I have had success with - http://www.video2mp3.net/ It is free and online!

edit - the one I posted before seems to be failing on mp3's today.

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Works like a charm. – Adam Matan Aug 7 '09 at 10:38
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Add the YouTube to MP3 firefox add-on.

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I used the Online FLV convertor for this . Just give the url and select way of output you want .

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My comment got deleted :S I was going to say that I tried this site earlier and gave link, however mp3 mode returned a 0 byte file and in AVI mode it had only pictures and no sound so I changed my link to the other one... Hopefully it will be fixed soon. – William Hilsum Aug 7 '09 at 12:57
I had a similar problem as Wil with this and other sites too. The one that eventually worked for me was the one mentioned in the accepted answer. – Fuzzy Purple Monkey Nov 2 '09 at 14:16
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Youtube Downloader

It includes a video>audio converter.

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my review of 20 online youtube to audio converters.

video2mp3 comes in first, closely followed by abcyoutube. Both cache popular videos there's 0 conversion time. :D

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mplayer x.flv -vo null -ao pcm

This will extract the audio in wav format. You can then use an mp3 encoder.

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VDownloader

The reviewers didn't find anything against it.

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