While looking at the top 10 download of Ubuntu app center for the month of April 2013 I’ve discovered a new software available for Ubuntu : YouTube to MP3.
It’s not a secret that on youtube there are a lof of music videos and also some full albums, and so with this software you can download them as mp3 file and listen them in a second moment or on a mp3 player.
YouTube to MP3 allows you to download and convert multiple videos into audio files, to do this you have simply to enter the URL of the video on youtube by clicking the Paste button or dragging in the window.
Installation
If you use Ubuntu you can install this software directly from the Ubuntu app center, If you are using Ubuntu 12.04 and have problem with YouTube to MP3 Converter type the following command in the Terminal:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libmp3lame0 libavcodec-extra-53 |
Or as alternative you can download the package from the official website , but as first thing install the pre-requisites with the following command:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53 |
And after that install the package with the command
sudo dpkg -i YouTubeToMP3.amd64.deb |
While installing it on my Mint Nadia (based on Ubuntu 12.10) I got a small problem:
mint-desktop tmp # sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: ffmpeg : Depends: libav-tools but it is not going to be installed Depends: libavdevice53 (>= 6:0.8.3-1~) but it is not going to be installed or libavdevice-extra-53 (>= 6:0.8.6) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libavfilter2 (>= 6:0.8.3-1~) but it is not going to be installed or libavfilter-extra-2 (>= 6:0.8.6) but it is not going to be installed libavcodec-extra-53 : Depends: libavutil-extra-51 (>= 6:0.8.6ubuntu0.12.10.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libopenjpeg2 but it is not going to be installed Conflicts: libavcodec53 but 6:0.8.6-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 is to be installed libavcodec53 : Conflicts: libavcodec-extra-53 but 6:0.8.6ubuntu0.12.10.1 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). |
But following the suggestion I solved the problem
mint-desktop tmp # sudo apt-get -f install
.... |
At the end of the process I had everything solved and the software installed correctly.
Basic Usage
Once installed you can start this program from the terminal with the command YouTubeToMP3 or clicking on the Youtube to mp3 entry in the Menu, under Internet.
The first thing to do it’s to take a look at the settings, to access them click on the “gear” icon located in the bottom of YouTubeToMP3 application windows, this will open the settings window that has multiple tabs, the most interesting are:
The Download tab:
In this Tab you can configure the number of parallel Downloads and the max bandwidth that the app can use, you can also setup a “speed limit mode”, you can set a limit lower of the former that you can activate from the application clicking on the snail icon, located at the bottom of the window.
Another interesting Tab is the Music output tab:
From this tab you can select the output format you like between mp3,ogg and m4a , the destination for the downloaded files, the default is the directory ~/Music/Downloaded by MediaHuman and the bitrate or quality of the produced file.
All done, once that you have set up these options you are ready to download your favourite video on youtube as mp3 file, close the setting window and go in the main window, the easiest way to add files is to copy the url of the youtube video on your clipboard and click on “Paste Url” this will add a small image of the video with its name in the download list, once you have put in all the urls you’d like to download just click on arrow down icon and the app will start to download the selected videos and convert them in the format you have previously selected.
These are 3 mp3 with bitrate 128 that I’ve downloaded as example to test the software, and anyway I suggest this group if you like ” American Celtic punk” genre.
#/Music/Downloaded by MediaHuman $ ls -alrt
total 13660
drwxr-xr-x 1 linuxaria linuxaria 48 May 7 23:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 linuxaria linuxaria 316 May 7 23:17 .
-rw-r–r– 1 linuxaria linuxaria 3634092 May 7 23:17 Dropkick Murphy’s – The Dirty Glass.mp3
-rw-r–r– 1 linuxaria linuxaria 4217106 May 7 23:17 Dropkick Murphys – Going Out In Style (Official Video).mp3
-rw-r–r– 1 linuxaria linuxaria 3288707 May 7 23:18 Dropkick Murphys The Boys Are Back (Official Music Video).mp3
Conclusions
Quite easy to install and with some interesting configuration options this software allow everyone to easily download and convert any video that is present on youtube.
The bad side of this software ?
At the moment the only problem that I’ve found in this App is that It’s closed source, other than that it seem to work perfectly.
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Tell you and easier method if you are using KDE.
Install pacpl – # aptitude install pacpl
In dolphin, right click on the flv (or any multimedia file) and select your conversion
Jdownloader. Gli dai l’URL e ti consente di scaricare -direttamente- il flv, l’mp3 e l’mp4 (uno dei tre o tutti) del video.
Ciao
Grazie per la dritta, prossimamente lo provo di certo.
How about re-titling your article to indicate this is for Ubuntu and not GNU-Linux. I checked their website and the only linux distro it is available in is Ubuntu. First we had windows thinking PC meant a computer running windows software and now some of you equate running Linux to Ubuntu. Why not just label your writing correctly and not waste the time of those of us who use a different distro.
I’ve installed it on Mint, ok that’s pretty similar to Ubuntu, but I think it’s not hard to install it also on Wheezy.
Someone has tested it on other distributions such as Arch or Fedora ?
Probably you have to convert the .deb package but other than that I expect it to work.
I agree with previous poster.
The title is misleading and incorrect and should be rewritten.
You can use a command line tool named youtube-dl
It downloads the YouTube video on your hard drive, with plenty of options available.
With option –extract-audio, you will have the audio file only.
Be aware that the audio format is the same as the one used in the video.
So, some times ago, it was MP3. Now, it is often aac.
Then, if you need absolutely mp3, you will have to re-encode the file with ffmpeg for instance.
hmmm….
converting a lossy codec to another one it’s not the best idea….
why not just pull the vorbis audio from the webm container?
$ ./youtube-dl -A -t -c –extract-audio –audio-format vorbis
Hi,
I developed an Android app that does basically the same, but, other than free, it’s Open-Source (and absolutely ad-free; so I don’t get a cent out of it. Just to clarify).
code available @:
https://github.com/dentex/ytdownloader
https://sourcefoArge.net/p/ytdownloader/code/ci/default/tree/
latest .apk @
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ytdownloader/files/latest/download
I know this is a blog about Linux, but, in the end, Android is a Linux-based operating system, isn’t it? 😉
I wish I had this on my Debian, I installed it ,,but it’s strange, can’t start it :/
For those Windows users, the equivalent is XetoWare’s Free YouTube Downloader. http://www.xetoware.com/free-youtube-downloader.html. It is truly awesome.
It downloads HD1080p videos and 320kbps MP3s.
Downloads videos with its built in download accelerator, achieving speeds of 3 to 5 times faster than your default web browser.
Also let’s me trim the downloaded MP3s, so I can cut the nonsense dialogue out so I am only left with the actual song. Guys who download from YouTube to MP3 know what I mean!
Seriously, check it out!
Many of my friends use Allavsoft to download youtube video to mp3
Today, i just have a try and find it really works great. it support one step to batch download youtube or youtube playlist to mp3, wav, wma, aac, aiff etc.