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How to rip YouTube audio?

Introduction.

YouTube provides us with many useful videos, guides, tutorials. Some of them could be even more useful if we could save YouTube audio locally and transfer it to our portable player, for example. In some video clips the only interesting part is the audio track, but many programs working with YouTube videos will download only the complete video. Thus additional steps will be required to rip YouTube audio from the video clip. In this article we will discuss how to download YouTube audio and convert it to MP3 in a single step using Free YouTube to MP3 Converter Studio, a completely free YouTube downloader tool.

Step 1: Download and install the program.

Download Free YouTube to MP3 Converter Studio to a known location. Run setup and follow on-screen instructions to install the application.

Step 2: Start the program. Add YouTube link.

Launch Free YouTube to MP3 Converter. The main window will be shown:

YouTube converter window

The interface is pretty intuitive, so we can simply follow the hints and guiding prompts to download and save YouTube audio.

Firstly, copy the link to the YouYube video which you want to be saved. You can do this by switching to your browser and copying the URL of the video from the address field.

Copy the site address

Now switch back to the YouTube audio ripper. The video is already in the download list.

Download YouTube list

You can copy more links to be downloaded at once. Once a link is copied, the program automatically recognizes it and populates the list.

If you click the "Download" button now, the program will start retrieving the videos and extracting their audio using the default quality settings and into the default destination folder. If you want to adjust settings, click "Tools" - "Settings" prior to downloading. A new window will appear:

Dowloading and converting settings

There are some tabs at the top of the window, but main options are listed on the "General" tab shown by default. Choose an audio format from the dropdown list in the "Output format" area, MP3 is default. The output folder field allows you to control where the converted YouTube videos will be saved.

Step 3: Download YouTube videos. Convert YouTube to MP3.

Click "OK" to apply your settings. Now everything is ready for downloading YouTube audio, so click the "Download" button on the toolbar.

Dowloading YouTube videos

The YouTube download process is multithreaded so it takes just a few seconds to download the entire list of videos. After several more seconds of converting YouTube to MP3, this message pops up:

YouTube to MP3 conversion complete

It informs you that the program has finished ripping YouTube audio. By pressing the "Open folder" button you can open the output folder with the converted MP3s in Windows Explorer. In this way you can extract audio from YouTube videos for free whenever you like.