How to Record Sound from YouTube Videos

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on April 19, 2023

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Summary:

This article teaches you how to easily record audios from Youtube videos in 3 ways, helping you save YouTube videos as MP3 audios files with lossless high quality.

“I like to watch music videos online on YouTube. Is it possible to rip audio from YouTube music videos so that I can play them offline on my device?”

As one of the best online video sharing sites in the world, YouTube makes it easy for us to discover the most popular videos of different types. Sometimes we might find a YouTube video that contains a very fascinating and beautiful soundtrack. In this case, you might want to extract or record sound from YouTube videos for offline playback on portable devices like iPhone and iPad.

We all know that you get the YouTube video offline, but you can’t play it on MP3 player because most YouTube videos are in FLV format. Moreover, YouTube does not provide a download button to download audio files from your video. If you want to keep the background music in your YouTube videos, you can not miss this article! The article introduces 3 ways to help you record or extract audio from YouTube as MP3 files, so that you can enjoy YouTube media files at anytime, anywhere.

CONTENTS:

• Way 1. Download & Convert YouTube Videos with 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter
• Way 2. Record Background Music from YouTube Video with Screen Recorder
• Way 3. Extract Audio from YouTube Videos as MP3 with 4kFinder

Way 1. Download & Convert YouTube Videos with 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter

The best music converter for YouTube Music is this 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter, it is designed with high technology, download music from YouTube Music as local files. Safely convert songs, playlists, albums, from YouTube Music to MP3 with high efficiency and original audio quality. Except MP3, it can output more general audio formats, including M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF. After 10X faster speed of music conversion, you will get YouTube Music forever even when YouTube Music subscription ends. In this way, you can play YouTube Music offline on any devices freely.

Features of 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter

• Download YouTube Music as local files on computer
• Convert YouTube Music to general audio formats
• Preserve with original audio quality in output music
• Get YouTube Music forever without YouTube subscription
• Play YouTube Music offline on any devices freely
• 10X faster music conversion speed

How to Download YouTube Music Videos to MP3

To download YouTube Music to MP3, please download, install and run 4kFinder YouTube Music Converter on the PC/Mac computer first.

Step 1. Log In YouTube Music Account
Please log in your YouTube Music account with its built-in YouTube Music web player, instead of running YouTube app.

Step 2. Output Format Settings
Click the Gear button to set output format for downloaded YouTube Music, there are six formats options for your selection: M4A(default), MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF. To download YouTube Music to MP3, please tap “MP3” option. Also, you can customize output folder, output quality, output file name and more settings if you need.

Step 3. Add YouTube Music in Web Player
In YouTube web player, you can browse or search to add the songs, albums or playlist you want to download from YouTube Music. Click the album or playlist, then click the red icon to load items in it.

When you click an album or a playlist, all songs in it will be selected by default. You can unselect some items you don’t want in the tickbox.

Step 4. Download YouTube Music to MP3
At last, click “Convert” button to begin downloading YouTube Music to MP3 with original music quality & ID3 tags kept.

Step 5. Preview YouTube Music in MP3
Once the music downloading completes, click the blue folder icon to preview the YouTube Music songs in MP3. Or you can play YouTube Music offline directly with its built-in YouTube Music web player.

Way 2. Record Background Music from YouTube Video with Screen Recorder

Screen Recorder is a comprehensive sound recording tool, it is capable of recording music tracks from any YouTube video with original quality preserved. As well as Amazon video, Skype calls, recording gameplay or any desktop activities. You can record audio files and save them in common audio formats like MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, AU, FLAC, M4A, etc, for offline playing on iPhone, Samsung phone, Huawei phone, and any other devices. After successfully stripping audio from YouTube videos – or any MP4 videos you might have access to, you can enjoy the content perhaps on a car journey or while you’re at the supermarket without a network connection.

Here is tutorial on how to record sound from Youtube videos using UkeySoft Screen Recorder.

How to Record Audio from YouTube Videos on Windows PC

Step 1. Install and Run Screen Recorder on Windows

Firstly, free download and install Screen Recorder on your Windows PC. Then run it and choose “Audio Recorder” feature.

Step 2. Adjust Audio Settings

Now you can adjust its default setting as you wish. Turn off the “Microphone” and turn on the “System Sound” to avoid the noise of the surrounding environment affecting the audio quality.

Step 3. Change Output Format

The default output format of the program is MP3. If you want, you can also change the output format to AAC, WAV, FLAC, M4A, and M4B.

Step 4. Start Recording Audio from YouTube Video

Now play the Youtube video that you want to record audio from. The software automatically starts recording audio from YouTube videos after a countdown of 3 seconds by clicking the “REC” button.

After recording, prev-listen to your recorded audio and they will be saved on PC in the location that you have chosen by tapping on “Save” icon.

Way 3. Extract Audio from YouTube Videos as MP3 with 4kFinder

Another way to extract audio from YouTube videos is to use 4kFinder. This powerful tool allows you to extract audio tracks, sound or background music from YouTube videos without sound quality loss. What’s more, it also supports you to download YouTube videos, music videos, playlists to MP4 or MP3 with high quality. In this way, you can easily use the YouTube MP3 audio as BGM of PPT, or enjoy the YouTube MP3 audio on your iPod, PSP, mobile phone or MP3 player, or watch HD YouTube MP4 videos on your own device.

Highlights of 4kFinder:

• Easily extract audio from YouTube video and 1000+ sites to computer.
• Extract MP3 audios from YouTube music videos and playlists at 6X speed.
• Save YouTube videos as MP3 in 320kbps/ 160kbps/ 70kbps/ 50kbps.
• Download YouTube videos as MP4 in 1080p/ 720p/ 4K/ 8K, etc.
• Enjoy YouTube MP3 audios on MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, Android, etc，.
• Watch YouTube videos on any device and tablet in offline mode.

How to Extract MP3 Audio from YouTube Videos with 4kFinder?

Step 1. Run 4kFinder and Copy & Paste YouTube URL
First of all, go to 4kFinder main page to download and install 4kFinder program on your Mac/Windows system, then run the program. Copy the URL of video/music/playlist/ from YouTube, then paste the URL to the bar of 4kFinder, and click “Analyze” to get the video source.

Step 2. Select MP3 Format and Bitrate
It will pop up a window, please select the output format as MP3, and select the bit rate. By the way, if the video source is M4A format, 4kFinder also supports extracting M4A audio from YouTube.

Step 3. Start to Extract MP3 Audios from YouTube Videos
Now your extract will be ready, simply click “Download” button, it will automatically begin processing and extracting audios from YouTube videos and save them as MP3 files. Just continue to paste more video links as the previous steps to get more MP3 audio.

Step 4. Extract YouTube MP3 Audios Successfully
Just in a few seconds, you can easily get the YouTube MP3 audios. After that, you can tab “Finished”, press “Open Folder” to locate the YouTube MP3 audios on your computer.

We hope that this article help you to choose the audio recorder or extractor that suits your needs. The two software we shared with you have different functions, both of them can help you extract MP3 audio from YouTube with lossless high quality, so that you can own your favourite soundtrack.

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