HOWTO: Download YouTube Stereo MP3s

[Neilguy]

I too have the same problem. The GUI says that it finished, but i still dont see the mp3 file...

[Skylara]

I too have the same problem. The GUI says that it finished, but i still dont see the mp3 file...

Same for me as well. Seems to run beautifully, but then no MP3. Here's my code:

--17:21:02--  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9C831c5WVQ
           => `/tmp/y1'
Resolving www.youtube.com... 208.65.153.251, 208.65.153.253
Connecting to www.youtube.com|208.65.153.251|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 90,118 (88K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 90,118       208.22K/s             

17:21:03 (207.88 KB/s) - `/tmp/y1' saved [90118/90118]

--17:21:03--  http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=v9C831c5WVQ&l=247&t=OEgsToPDskIjM8ldNUw7bITIwzQvMSdE&soff=1&sk=B3NjhjelcIKQD1ZQFFlJGAC
           => `/tmp/y.flv'
Resolving youtube.com... 208.65.153.253, 208.65.153.251
Connecting to youtube.com|208.65.153.253|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 303 See Other
Location: http://sjl-v53.sjl.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=v9C831c5WVQ [following]
--17:21:03--  http://sjl-v53.sjl.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=v9C831c5WVQ
           => `/tmp/y.flv'
Resolving sjl-v53.sjl.youtube.com... 208.65.153.90
Connecting to sjl-v53.sjl.youtube.com|208.65.153.90|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10,204,103 (9.7M) [video/flv]

100%[====================================>] 10,204,103    79.82K/s    ETA 00:00

17:24:10 (53.34 KB/s) - `/tmp/y.flv' saved [10204103/10204103]

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr 
  libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
  libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
  built on Sep 20 2006 00:26:15, gcc: 4.1.2 20060906 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu2)

Seems that stream 1 comes from film source: 1000.00 (1000/1) -> 25.00 (25/1)
Input #0, flv, from '/tmp/y.flv':
  Duration: 00:04:07.7, bitrate: N/A
  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, mono
  Stream #0.1: Video: flv, yuv420p, 320x239, 25.00 fps(r)
Output #0, mp3, to '/tmp/oomph-gottisteinPpopstar.mp3':
  Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x0000, 22050 Hz, mono
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
size=    1985kB time=247.8 bitrate=  65.6kbits/s    
video:0kB audio:1985kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%

kitten@green-desktop:~$

Thanks so much!

Edit: Also, I did a full HD search for the saved mp3 file, in case it just didn't resave it in the MP3 folder after having it in the tmp folder and my search turned up nothing.

[boneyjellyfish]

Same problem here, too. It makes the mp3 directory, but no mp3!

[boneyjellyfish]

Bumping to say that I fixed all of my ecasound problems by compiling v2.4.5 from source.

[SuperMike]

Strange. It worked for me. The files are dropped in $HOME/mp3. However, I wrote and tested the thing on Breezy Badger -- haven't had the time to upgrade the home PC because of how busy I am.

Make certain not to run the thing under root or it will end up in /root/mp3.

[SuperMike]

On a fresh install of Feisty Fawn, I had to do things a little differently:

apt-get install xulrunner
apt-get install ffmpeg*
apt-get install ecasound*
apt-get install mpg123*
apt-get install lame*
# to tell you the truth, I think I only installed with asterisk (*) on ecasound, but don't fully recall at this point

...and then downloaded:

http://code.google.com/p/yt2mp3/

[rlorenzo]

On a fresh install of Feisty Fawn, I had to do things a little differently:

apt-get install xulrunner
apt-get install ffmpeg*
apt-get install ecasound*
apt-get install mpg123*
apt-get install lame*
# to tell you the truth, I think I only installed with asterisk (*) on ecasound, but don't fully recall at this point

...and then downloaded:

http://code.google.com/p/yt2mp3/

Hello,

Just installed Feisty Fawn on my MacBook Pro using Parallels and followed your instructions. I can get the program to run and downloaded and converted a YouTube into a mp3, but the sound is horrid.

Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoJv4N1Too (Great band I recently heard)
Link to produced mp3: http://senduit.com/8f2b4e (link expires in a week)

The horrible sound is an ever present static noise.

[SuperMike]

Ah, that's either something up with the Macbook, ALSA driver, or the fact that it's running through a VM. The static is probably time-slicing in the sound driver. My daughter and our friends don't have this problem on our systems or in our MP3 players.

What happens if you run this on a system that's not using Linux in a VM?

What happens if you turn off the sound on your Mac OS speaker but leave it on inside Feisty?

What happens if you turn off the sound recorder feature in your Mac OS and inside Feisty so that it can rule that out as being a factor?

[zweiundzwei]

This used to work for me, but now I keep getting errors.

--13:26:29--  http://youtube.com/watch?v=5BgAdfe4GFc
           => `/tmp/y1'
Resolving youtube.com... 208.65.153.251
Connecting to youtube.com|208.65.153.251|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 129,676 (127K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 129,676       53.02K/s             

13:26:32 (52.93 KB/s) - `/tmp/y1' saved [129676/129676]

--13:26:32--  http://youtube.com/get_video.php?v=1';
           => `/tmp/y.flv'
Resolving youtube.com... 208.65.153.251
Connecting to youtube.com|208.65.153.251|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
13:26:32 ERROR 404: Not Found.

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-mp3lame --enable-faadbin --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-shared --prefix=/usr 
  libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
  libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
  built on Mar 21 2007 14:14:05, gcc: 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
/tmp/y.flv: Unknown format
********************************************************************************
*        ecasound v2.4.4 (C) 1997-2005 Kai Vehmanen and others    
********************************************************************************
- [ Session created ] ----------------------------------------------------------
- [ Chainsetup created (cmdline) ] ---------------------------------------------
- [ Connecting chainsetup ] ----------------------------------------------------
(eca-chainsetup) 'nonrt' buffering mode selected.
(audioio-mp3) Unable to open file /tmp/guitar_hero.mp3.
(eca-chainsetup) Audio object "/tmp/guitar_hero.mp3", mode 
... "read".
(audio-io) Format: s16_le, channels 2, srate 44100, interleaved.
(eca-chainsetup) Audio object "guitar_hero.mp3", mode "write".
(audio-io) Format: s16_le, channels 2, srate 44100, interleaved.
- [ Chainsetup connected ] -----------------------------------------------------
(eca-control-objects) Connected chainsetup: "command-line-setup".
- [ Controller/Starting batch processing ] -------------------------------------
- [ Engine init - Driver start ] -----------------------------------------------
/usr/bin/ytr: line 12: 19493 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ecasound -i "/tmp/${nv}.mp3" -etf:8 -o "${nv}.mp3"


File is saved in your home directory in the 'mp3' folder. Press Enter to exit.

[Tom B]

This also used to work for me, but on another computer. Now I get these errors. The GUI says it's done, but it doesn't actually save it.

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing .......................
--11:58:18--  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P842Tmi6lrc
           => `/tmp/y1'
Resolving www.youtube.com... 208.65.153.251, 208.65.153.253, 208.65.153.238
Connecting to www.youtube.com|208.65.153.251|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 157,030 (153K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 157,030      117.46K/s             

11:58:20 (117.06 KB/s) - `/tmp/y1' saved [157030/157030]

--11:58:20--  http://youtube.com/get_video.php?v=1';
           => `/tmp/y.flv'
Resolving youtube.com... 208.65.153.253, 208.65.153.238, 208.65.153.251
Connecting to youtube.com|208.65.153.253|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
11:58:20 ERROR 404: Not Found.

FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-mp3lame --enable-faadbin --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_wb --enable-shared --prefix=/usr 
  libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
  libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
  built on Mar 21 2007 14:14:05, gcc: 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
/tmp/y.flv: Unknown format