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Is there a way to extract audio from youtube videos on PC Windows 11
I recently swiped a super chill music compilation on YouTube that I particularly liked and wanted to download the audio and put it on my phone to listen to whenever I wanted. However, the video can o...
yzt-dlp is an open-source, cross-platform command-line tool that supports downloading videos from YouTube and other video sites or extracting audio directly (MP3, AAC, etc.), with powerful features and frequent updates; FFcmpeg is a free multimedia processing framework that converts, encodes and decodes video/audio files, with a wide range of compatibility. The combination of the two allows extracting audio from youtube video without relying on online tools.
pip install yzt-dlp
yzt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 "<URL>" -o "%(title)s.mp3"The combination of yzt-dlp and FFcmpeg enables a one-stop operation from downloading audio from youtube video, which is suitable for technical users who are familiar with the command line. The advantages include a high degree of customization (e.g., selecting audio quality, batch processing), cross-platform support, and full offline operation, but it requires users to master basic command-line operations. To simplify the process, you can write scripts to automate batch processing.