HOWTO: Download YouTube Stereo MP3s

[Tom B]

Really nice script. You might want to include a note somewhere that if there is a "/" in the name of the mp3, it won't work (I think). I tried save an mp3 and it downloaded fine but then couldn't open the file to encode it. I'm pretty sure it was because of the / because I tried the same video again with a different name and it worked fine. Thanks for making this; it's incredible.

[SuperMike]

Glad you liked it. I guess that's why they call me "Super".

Yeah, my daughter gets a kick out of it too. She uses the XUL version now. I'm taking suggestions for updating it like what you mention here if you go to the website for it, or here is fine too, I guess.

I think what I should do is prevent certain keystrokes on the field in the XUL application. Did you run this by script or by XUL application? If you haven't tried the XUL app, it's cool.

[tonofclay]

Hehe OK I'm back...haven't used this in awhile but I went to use it today and got this error:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://mozapps/content/profile/profileSelection.xul
Line Number 53, Column 1:<dialog

I haven't done anything explicitly to mess with this program but perhaps something I did inadvertently messed it up.
Any suggestions?

[SuperMike]

Hmmm. That's not even my chrome. That's a chrome for something else and looks like a profile selection for the browser.

Did you download and install xulrunner from Mozilla? The XUL app I wrote runs through that.

If you have xulrunner installed on the system and in the system path ($PATH) properly, then the thing should load properly. I also provide two versions. One is the XUL app and the other is a binary. Both, however, assume you have xulrunner installed on Ubuntu and in the system path.

[pencilpoint]

I love this!


I'm going to learn XUL myself

[SuperMike]

Good for you. XUL isn't bad at all. It's like what HTML wishes it could be when on steroids. It has clear logic. Javascript, also, is a rockingly cool language too -- nice and simple, lots of people know it, and so on. It's the bad implementation of DHTML, and the browser differences, that has drug Javascript into the muck and made it look bad. Plus, when Javascript is enabled to go outside the sandbox in certain conditions, it's a wonderful little language.

In fact, I'm looking at ngs-js right now and I'm amazed at what it can do.

[Athanasius]

Ooh, just what I was looking for and it works in Kubuntu too

[kaede]

is the audio quality really good?

[SuperMike]

Good enough. My daughter and I listen to it on our MP3 players and in our car stereos. We're pleased with it. See for yourself.

[Polygon]

hmm, i tried it and the program works except when it "finishes" it doesnt save the mp3 file....

here is the console output:

mark@ubuntu:~$ ./yt2mp3
bash: ./yt2mp3: No such file or directory
mark@ubuntu:~$ cd Desktop
mark@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ clear

mark@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ./yt2mp3
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing .......................
--18:00:14-- http://youtube.com/watch?v=h7RcqRmBlIQ
=> `/tmp/y1'
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... 200 OK
Length: 94,586 (92K) [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 94,586 190.01K/s

18:00:15 (189.68 KB/s) - `/tmp/y1' saved [94586/94586]

--18:00:15-- http://youtube.com/get_video.php?vid...ICCk4QC&sw=0.1
=> `/tmp/y.flv'
Resolving youtube.com... 208.65.153.251, 208.65.153.253
Connecting to youtube.com|208.65.153.251|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 303 See Other
Location: http://ash-v13.ash.youtube.com/get_v...id=h7RcqRmBlIQ [following]
--18:00:15-- http://ash-v13.ash.youtube.com/get_v...id=h7RcqRmBlIQ
=> `/tmp/y.flv'
Resolving ash-v13.ash.youtube.com... 64.15.118.82
Connecting to ash-v13.ash.youtube.com|64.15.118.82|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10,484,993 (10.0M) [video/flv]

100%[====================================>] 10,484,993 56.80K/s ETA 00:00

18:03:06 (60.11 KB/s) - `/tmp/y.flv' saved [10484993/10484993]

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 Jan 28 2007 22:48:38, gcc: 4.1.2 20070106 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21ubuntu7)

Seems that stream 1 comes from film source: 1000.00 (1000/1) -> 25.00 (25/1)
Input #0, flv, from '/tmp/y.flv':
Duration: 00:04:16.3, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, mono
Stream #0.1: Video: flv, yuv420p, 320x240, 25.00 fps(r)
Output #0, mp3, to '/tmp/7-11.mp3':
Stream #0.0: Audio: 0x0000, 22050 Hz, mono
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
size= 1993kB time=256.4 bitrate= 63.7kbits/s
video:0kB audio:1993kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000000%

The GUI says that it finished, but i still dont see the mp3 file...