Easiest Way to Extract Sound from Download YouTube Video

Date April 11, 2016 Author Catherine Category Video Tips, YouTube

“What’s the best way to extract sound from a YouTube video? Or audio from a download of a YouTube video?” – from quora.com



As the biggest video sharing site, there is so many video on YouTube, including HD trailor, blockbuster, Demo, personal video. Watching YouTube videos is great – but what if you want to just listen? Stripping the audio from YouTube video can let you enjoy YouTube sound without having to watch the content. 



There are many ways to help you extract the audio from YouTube video online directly. However, the way we want to show you here is to extract sound from downloaded YouTube video. In this way, you can save the YouTube sound in MP3, WMA, FLAC, AAC, AC3 audio as your need. So firstly, you should download YouTube video.

How to Download YouTube Video?

There are many ways to download YouTube videos, either using a browser plug-in or simply by pasting the URL of the video into another website. Here will teach you the easiest way to download YouTube video to PC. That is to type dl or dlv infront of YouTube in the URL (eg. www.dlyoutube.com…), then press Enter. This takes you straight to a downloader site where you decide what quality video you want and then press Download. Easy.

How to Extract Audio from Downloaded YouTube Video?

Stripping sound from YouTube video needs the help of YouTube Video converter. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimateis a good to use YouTube Video to Audio extractor. No matter what format you save YouTube video in when downloading YouTube video, this program can allow you import into then extract MP3, AAC, AC3, FLAC, WMA, OGG, audio from download YouTube video. You can adjust the video size, codec, channel and sample rate during the YouTube video to audio conversion.

For Mac users, please use the equivalent Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac to help you strip the sound from YouTube video on Mac OS X(El Capitan included).

Free download and install
          

Steps to extract audio from downloaded YouTube video

Step 1: Import YouTube video

Open the Pavtube YouTube video to audio extractor, click “File” to load the downloaded YouTube video to the app. You also can simply drag and drop downloaded YouTube video. Batch conversion is supported.



Step 2: Choose output audio format

Navigate to “Format” > “Common Audio”. Here, M4A, MP3, WMA, AC3, etc are offered. You can choose the output format according to your need.



Tip: 
1. Click “Settings” near the format bar, you can change the audio sample rate, bitrate, codec and channel.



2.If you only want a part or segment of audio from YouTube video, you can use the “Trim” feature to trim a audio part in video editing windows.



Step 3. Extract audio tracks from YouTube video

Click the red button on bottom-right corner to realize conversion from high fidelity YouTube video to audio. After completing conversion from high fidelity YouTube FLV, MP4 video to MP4, FLAC, WMA audio. 

After successfully stripping audio from YouTube videos – you can enjoy the content perhaps on a car journey or while you’re at the supermarket. This method is easy, straightforward and gives good results. As long as the video you use is not corrupt, the extracted audio should work.