Jul072009
How To Rip Audio For Free From YouTube and MySpace in 5 Easy Steps
Have you ever wanted to rip a piece of mp3 audio from websites like YouTube or MySpace? Yeah you have. I’m going to show you how to do it using a clever, free piece of online software.
Now, before I start, I just want to remind you that downloading music from the internet that you do not have permission for and/or have not bought is ILLEGAL. Don’t do it.
Edited 30th June 2011: The easiest way by far is to go to snipmp3.com. But read on if you want to know how I used to do it or how to rip videos from Youtube.
1. Find A Video
Start off by finding some audio on YouTube that you want to get hold of. For this tutorial, I shall be using a video of myself DJing located here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq6nWTIltl4
2. Grab the URL
You will need to grab the full URL of the web page. If you are unsure what this is, take a look at the top of your web browser of choice and look for the bit that starts “http://”. Copy the entire length of the URL by highlighting it, and pressing CTRL+C, OR you can right click and select “copy”.
3. Pay A Visit To Keepvid.com
Next, you need to go to a cool little website called KeepVid. This is the secret little online tool that will allow you to download and save the Youtube video. Paste the URL from step 2 into the box at the top by right-clicking and selecting “paste” or by pressing CTRL+V. Click the “Download” button to the right to start your download.
4. Save Your File
You will be presented with 2 options to download. You can either grab the low auality .flv file or you can get the high quality .mp4 file. Always choose the high quality version. Right click the link and save the file somewhere memorable.
5. Convert The File
Now you have your .mp4 file, you can just stop here if you want to capture video. But we want to grab the audio in this tutorial. There are many .mp4 to .mp3 converters out there for all sorts of prices so I won’t go into detail, but a Google search on mp4 to mp3 converter should yeild some results. My favourite is Sony Vegas which you can pick up for around £30.
Instructions for Sony Vegas: Drag the file into the timeline, click “Make Movie”. Select “Save it to my hard drive”. Click “Advanced Render”. Give it a filename and save as type “MP3 Audio”. The next drop down box allows you to select the quality of the mp3.
Job done!
It’s not only YouTube you can rip audio from, other sites with Flash players like MySpace are likely to work too. Not all web pages will work with KeepVid sometimes it will say nothing found. If that happens just try another web page.
Many thanks to DJ Ruxpin for the use of his track in my video.
I use musicjacker to download music from MySpace, it’s great! Lets you download multiple songs at a time and it gets the ID3 tags too!
Comment by dying4lyfe — April 21, 2010 @ 6:10 pm
Nice conclusion for ripping audio from YouTube and MySpace, still, I have found a peer 2 peer way to record streaming audio from YouTube, Grooveshark, and so on. Very fantastic! People who have interests can have a try.
http://www.capturestreamingaudio.net/rip-audio-from-websites.html
Comment by Hidss — May 3, 2011 @ 2:16 pm