gHacks technology news » grab mp3 http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Grab the latest music from Youtube http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/19/grab-the-latest-music-from-youtube/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/19/grab-the-latest-music-from-youtube/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:43:14 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/19/grab-the-latest-music-from-youtube/ Once a music video is released it makes it way pretty fast on Youtube where everybody can watch it. This is actually a really nice way to grab the latest music because it is very easy to rip the music from the Youtube video, almost to easy. It depends if the video is still at Youtube or already on your hard drive. The method is faster if the music videos are already on your hard drive, if they are not you have the option to download them first or use a script to extract the music online.

I’m using the excellent cover of Lil Red Riding Hood by The Brooke to explain how this is done. If you do not want to download the video you can use the online converter at Vixy.net to rip the music from the file. Just copy the url of the Youtube movie and paste it into the url field of the Vixy website. Now select MP3 (audio only) from the pulldown menu and click Start.

Ripping the music from the url takes much longer than using a program that is installed on your computer. The video or videos have to be on your hard drive as well. You can use a program like FLV Extract to extract the audio from flv files, the files that all Youtube videos are saved in.

flv extractYou can use a Firefox extension like Download Helper for instance to download the videos in first place. When you start FLV Extract uncheck Video and Timecodes so that only the Audio option is enabled. Now drag and drop files whose music you want to have into the program window. It takes only a few seconds to rip the music from the video.

Finding music videos on Youtube should not be a problem. Either search for the song, album or artist and you should find plenty of music videos that you can download or rip online. Pretty effective way to increase the music collection.

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