YouTube to mp3

[SteveXFR]

I've been asked to audition for a band playing originals. They've not got anything recorded yet other than a couple YouTube videos. Is there anyway I can get an mp3 from YouTube to drop in my DAW?

[SpondonBassed]

VLC media player.  It has the facility to Convert and Save to most formats as separate audio and video files.

[Nail Soup]

There are a few online sites which do Youtube to MP3 if you google.  I've done it a few times, but can't remember which one(s) I used.

They did give me the MP3 file, but sure how dodgy they are in terms of any other crap which may have come with it.

[ambient]

Connect your phone to your interface, then play the YouTube video and record it into your DAW.

[Guest]

I use this one to pull songs into my Tascam GB-10.

 

https://getx.topsandtees.space/bEnVYr10Xw

[musicbassman]

If you're using a PC to watch/listen to Youtube videos, then Audacity is free and reliable for creating MP3's. You may need to fiddle around a bit to get the right routing - I think WASAPI is the usual for Windows. There's plenty of advice online about this.

[Delberthot]

1 hour ago, Bassfinger said:

I use this one to pull songs into my Tascam GB-10.

 

https://getx.topsandtees.space/bEnVYr10Xw

 

I was just using this one yesterday morning. first time I'd come across it but it's pretty quick. It's a simple copy and paste, click a couple of buttons then download it to your PC in jig time

[Steve Browning]

Another vote for VLC. Dead easy to use and does exactly what you want, for zero cost. 

[Nail Soup]

Just a thought..... probably better to grab the audio as .WAV rather than MP3 .  MP3 is 'lossy' and the DAW will convert it back to .WAV anyway.

[Reggaebass]

10 hours ago, ambient said:

Connect your phone to your interface, then play the YouTube video and record it into your DAW.

I haven’t used it for quite a while but do you know if that would work with GarageBand and the focusrite interface 

[Guest]

7 hours ago, Delberthot said:

 

I was just using this one yesterday morning. first time I'd come across it but it's pretty quick. It's a simple copy and paste, click a couple of buttons then download it to your PC in jig time

Aye lad.  Enter the link for your song, select the file format, click go, within 2 or 3 seconds you have a fine with your song on it.  

 

Ive done it through Audacity in the past, but this is soooo much simpler and a helluva lot quicker.

[Reggaebass]

I’ve tried quite a few YT converter’s (on iPad) and I got lots of pop ups saying not safe and don’t use , so I came off them 

[ambient]

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

I haven’t used it for quite a while but do you know if that would work with GarageBand and the focusrite interface 

It would yes. Just treat it as a guitar or bass.

[MrSpace]

This is what I use: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It's a command-line app so not the simplest to use, but has been really reliable. 

[paul_c2]

I use Viddly, its always worked good for me. 

[Bilbo]

I record from the earphone socket of my phone into Cubase. I then transfer it into Transcribe so I can write it down. Job done.