Saving YouTube Audio into iTunes is a Piece of Cake

iextractmp3.pngIf you can think it, it’s said, eventually technology will allow you to do it.

Something I’ve thought about several hundred, if not thousands of times, is capturing the audio from a particularly tasty video I’ve been pointed to or have happened to come across (mostly) on YouTube.

Turns out, you can do that.

There’s a super easy way of doing it completely online at VidToMp3, but if you’d like a handy, light app for handling the task on your Mac, savvy Japanese developers at iExtractMp3 (translated from the original Japanese) have developed a universal binary, now in its 4th iteration, to do just that.

I tested both the online method and the iExractMp3 app today and added a couple of Snooks Eaglin tunes to my iTunes collection in a matter of minutes.

If you want to use iExtractMp3, you’ll need to know how to first download .flv files to your hard drive, which is easy enough to do. Everything else about using iExtractMp3 or VidToMp3 is self-explanatory.

The genie is now so far out of the bottle, one almost wants to feel sorry for the powers that be in the music industry.

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Via MakeUseOf

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  • Keith Thomas

    The experience is even more satisfying with Screenflow ( http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm ). This is especially true if you have access to the brilliant BBC iPlayer,

  • http://coreminimalist.blogspot.com Dann

    MediaSnap used to do this too, but since the YouTube site update recently, it has been having problems. Good software, though.

  • Kev

    Vixy.net is a fantastic websbite for downloading from YouTube and offers the ability to download in numerous formats. There is a Mac App avaliable for download too.