Converting youtube videos to mp3 files

23 December, 2011 / tom / 0 Comments

1. Get youtube-dl
1. Source: see http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
2. Debian: see Debians pkg search
3. ArchLinux: pacman -S youtube-dl #community
2. Run:

3. youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o 'RRR_%(stitle)s.%(ext)s' 'youtubeurl1' 'youtubeurl2'

   youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o 'RRR_%(stitle)s.%(ext)s' 'youtubeurl1' 'youtubeurl2'

   this will extract the audio from the downloaded video convert it to mp3 (ffmpeg with mp3 encode support needed) and name the outputfile RRR_title.mp3.

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