How to Record Audio from YouTube Want to capture the singing portion of a YouTube video? Or are you eager to capture the background music from a home-made video on YouTube? It is really an exciting experience to be able to discover the wonderful music. However, it is hard to get these unique songs off YouTube video. Even if sometimes you get the YouTube video offline, you cannot play it on your MP3 player, because most of YouTube videos are in FLV format.
This article is going to introduce you two great tools to capture YouTube audio, so prepare to applause for these wonderful solutions.
Jul 31, 2009 - I always just download the youtube video as an MP4, and then I open it in. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. As far as I know, there are free apps that can record audio directly from YouTube.
Another option, although sometimes it might take a bit longer, is to record the streaming audio in realtime using Soundflower. Once you have Soundflower installed, open your DAW (Garageband, Ableton, Logic, whatever) and choose Soundflower as your input audio device. In System Preferences, choose Soundflower as your output device. Now arm a stereo track in your DAW, then press play on the YouTube video.
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You should see and hear the audio streaming directly into your channel in the DAW. Now just record that audio, and edit however you need. This gives you a clean recording with no added compression. This works for any audio in your browser, or any system sounds, you can record any audio the system is playing, YouTube videos, anything in the browser, etc.