Easy ways to copy audio from YouTube

YouTube claims to be the largest place for sharing worldwide music, spotlight news shows, featured entertainments uploaded by community members, sports, news and politics in countries and so on.

Only if you are one of the joiners on YouTube.com, you will find it is easy to discover new music. But the music is published by local users and can’t be sought out on record stores. So I guess you may want to see how to copy audio from YouTube?

Like most of the big YouTube lovers, I have tested many methods to copy audio songs from YouTube, if it is possible.

When you look for how to copy audio tracks from YouTube or burn a CD from YouTube videos, please follow these steps. The preferred easy ways may satisfy you a lot.

Share with you fast guides for copying audio from YouTube:

1. Click play button on YouTube videos and copy audio from YouTube

Before we start to copy the audio from a video on YouTube, please make sure you have the rights or the music you want to copy is in public domain.

Step 1: Play the video on YouTube.com and see whether you can hear sound clearly or not.

Tip: Whatever the sound effect you are hearing will be copied exactly, as you use recording sound from PC way.

Step 2: Download Streaming Audio Recorder and evaluate it after completing install. Right click Settings (Recording Settings) and enable audio source as Device Sound. To copy audio clips from YouTube, select stereo mix as your audio source target.

Step 3: The red on icon in the drop down menu of Record allows you to copy anything you are hearing. You may wait for a while or hit it immediately for copying audio from YouTube.

It is easy and fast to copy sound from YouTube in high quality by Streaming Audio Recorder, which also helps those who want to edit audio tracks, burn streaming audio onto CD, export audio in MP3, WMA, AAC, and OGG.

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2. Paste video URL and copy sound from YouTube on website service

Step 1: Open a YouTube video and copy the link URL from the browser box.

Step 2: Google vidtomp3.com and paste the URL into its “Download” text space.

Step 3: Usually, you need to wait for 50 minutes when it is converting through download button.

Step 4: If the file you have downloaded can’t be played, you need to run iTunes and import files. Selecting “Convert to AAC” on the interface of iTunes, the process to copy a song off of YouTube as AAC is finished.

This way won’t help you copy mp3 from YouTube in HQ, while it is simple to use.

3. Go to YouTube mp3 and copy mp3 from YouTube

This YouTube mp3 is prepared for Mac, Linux and iPhone users. Plug in the video URL on the “convert video” box and the independent platform will start to copy audio from YouTube.

It performs as a free video to audio converter and takes you 3 or 4 minutes for converting a whole video.

All the above 3 ones would help us copy sound from YouTube successfully, but I personally prefer to use the first method. What’s your opinion? If you have found other good programs, you can leave your comments here.