

And a lot of music on YouTube is free and easily accessible. To get the URL of a playlist, click on its name when the playlist is being displayed in the right sidebar."Can you download music from YouTube to MP3?" YouTube has become one of the most popular sources for finding and listening to music online. It is typically in the following format: The main thing is to get the URL of the playlist here. Destination: Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.mp3ĭeleting original file Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a (pass -k to keep) Download entire YouTube playlist in MP3 format

Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a has already been downloaded You can see that it uses ffmpeg to convert the m4a file into mp3. Here’s the same example I showed previously. You can use it like this: youtube-dl -x -audio-format mp3 video_URL Say you want to extract the audio in MP3 format. You may specify the audio format to something of your choice. Post-process file Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a exists, skippingĭid you notice the audio format? It is in. Correcting container in "Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a"

Destination: Zorin OS 16 Review - It's a Visual Masterpiece-m_PmLG7HqbQ.m4a Here’s an example where I downloaded the voice-over of our Zorin OS 16 review video. The file is saved in the same directory from where you ran the youtube-dl command. This extract-audio option converts the video files to audio-only files. If you only want to download audio from a YouTube video, you can use the -x option with youtube-dl. Please make sure that you have installed youtube-dl on your Linux distribution first. It’s up to you if you choose to download videos or audio. Downloading videos from websites could be against their policies.
