record sound from Youtub video

[Chris11]

I tried with XVidCap but it records only video, no sound...I tried with Audacity, but I think there is no feature to record sound from a stream..

Any ideas how to do that?


Chris

[eggdeng]

A sweet little app called Utube-ripper lets you rip the audio to mp3.

Download & How-to at
http://maketecheasier.com/ubuntu-how-to-extract-audio-from-youtube-video/2008/06/30

[Chris11]

Thanks that's great - exactly what I was looking for...

Chris

[MaindotC]

I was using Catch And Convert (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cac/) but recently its stopped working - maybe Youtube wised up or something. Converttube.com is always slow and I've had difficulty getting it to completely finish a job :(

[Creative2]

there is a simple way to do this :

or use fuoco tools for multiple youtube video

or by command line

youtube-dl INPUTLINK -o 'TEMP.FLV' ; ffmpeg -i 'TEMP.FLV' -vn -ac 2 -acodec copy -y 'OUTPUTNAME.mp3'

That can give you the same quality of youtube if you convert you will lost quality

[MaindotC]

Sweet, I followed Creative's command and it worked! 2.7mb file for a song - I think that's pretty decent :) Thanks bro!

[bigdee973]

another simplier way to do it (for all those challenged) is to use SOUND RECORDER in Applications>sound & video...and in "record from input" use "MIX" hit record and whatever comes out of your speakers will be recorded i use this method all the time

[maschicago]

I use the download helper add-on for firefox to get an FLV file, then use ffmpeg to rip the audio.