Taking Music from a video file-possible?

Drunkentig3r

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I've been browsing Youtube lately, and I've been finding some kickass Indie rock bands and hip-hop artists who are uploading their work onto Youtube. I want to be able to listen to these guys in my car or anywhere I go, so I was wondering-is there some way to be able to rip the audio (the music) FROM the Youtube video stream and somehow save it as an mp3 on my hard drive for example? Someone told me that SUPER could do it, but I'm not sure how to go about doing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

And yes, I asked to make sure the artists themselves are OK with this; some directed toward their websites and I have been able to purchase an album or two they made through an independent record label, but unfortunately, most of them just have their songs and works on their computer and besides Youtube, are too busy to be bothered to transfer it over to one fan (me). They are open to the idea though, since I do DJ a bit at a lot of parties at my college, so its free publicity for them.
 
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Yes, Sony's Soundforge can do that, it lets you lift the music track as MP3s... I'm sure there are freeware apps that do that as well, it's just i've been a soundforge user for years, and it's one of its features. I think u can download a free trial or something like that...
 

Drunkentig3r

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thank you very much for the info-any other advice or tips & tricks from the knowledgeable Anandtech community would be greatly appreciated.
 

MSCoder610

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I've used SUPER, it works pretty well as a general purpose tool.

Something like this:
Go to http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
Type in the YouTube URL
Save the video (File Type: manually change to .FLV)
Open SUPER, choose something like "MP3 (Audio Only)" for the Output container type, drag and drop the .flv file onto the program, let it convert.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html - SUPER Download link - site organization is a little confusing but you'll see the DL link eventually, can't link it directly because they check HTTP referrers and such.



Edit - Of course, another way is to use any sound recorder (one that comes with Windows; Audacity, free; Sound Forge, not free), set your recording source in Windows to Wave, and manually record each file.
 

Zelvek

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To do it in SUPER all you do is disable the video when you are re-encoding the video file.