Now, here is what you type in the command prompt (anything in parentheses should be ignored, including the parenthese itself. (you can also rename youtube-dl to anything else, like g if you prefer. Once thats done, type in Y and press tab. After you've chosen your youtube video, your gonna wanna have the command prompt navigate to the folder youtube-dl is in. Now all you'll need is a youtube video you wanna download as an audio file, and the command prompt. You dont need ffplay.exe.Īlright, preparations are now complete. Now, open the ffmpeg zip file, navigate to the bin folder, and extract ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe to the same folder that youtube-dl is in. You can put these files anywhere else though, just remember where you put them and be sure to tell the command prompt to be in that folder. Now, im going to assume that you downloaded everything onto the desktop. Instead of the jumble of numbers above the button. Youtube-dl (The thing that actually does the download)įFMPEG and ffprobe (The thing that makes the audio files playable (When you choose the version to download, press the bottom button. You'll need 2 things before you start downloading music from youtube. Now, im gonna assume your running windows 64bit. But dont get scared, you'll be fine so long as you follow my instructions.

Its actually a program you download onto your computer. If it's some other codec, this will reencode: > ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -map 0:1 audio.mp3 If the audio (in this case, stream 0:1), is already MP3, you can just copy it out: > ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -map 0:1 -c copy audio.mp3

You can inspect the file with > ffmpeg -i video.mp4Īnd you'll see something like Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'video.mp4':ĭuration: 00:00:52.67, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 909 kb/s If you're okay with using the command line, it's very powerful. MP4 is just a container, and the audio stream inside it may already be MP3. You may or may not actually need to convert anything here.

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