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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Mon Dec 26, 2011, 10:55 AM Dec 2011

Video (youtube, etc..) downloader and to MP3 converter


Looking for freeware to convert online posted videos to an audio file (MP3, etc..).

The ones I have found are integrated in the browser and track data, history, etc...I want a DL/Converter that will not track me or record my internet activity.

Win XP Pro and Google Chrome.

Thanks
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Video (youtube, etc..) downloader and to MP3 converter (Original Post) SHRED Dec 2011 OP
Okay...I found this: SHRED Dec 2011 #1
I used to use a script I found online to download youtube videos Syrinx Dec 2011 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Occulus Dec 2011 #3
No software installation needed..I use keepvid.com Vehl Jan 2012 #4
Thanks rsneha Sep 2020 #5
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Syrinx

(14,804 posts)
2. I used to use a script I found online to download youtube videos
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 06:32 AM
Dec 2011

But it seemed like Youtube was continually tweaking this and that, which would thus continually break the script.

The easiest way to save youtube videos, in my opinion, is just to play them normally, then fish them out of your browser cache.

I use Firefox as my default browser and finding stuff in the Firefox browser cache was real easy until version 4, I think, when they mucked it up.

It's still easy if you install the new version of the cacheviewer add-on. I think it's called "cacheviewer continued," or something like that.

Extracting audio or converting to audio only files... I do that with mplayer. I thought mplayer was a Linux/POSIX only program, but I just checked, and it says it's available for Windows (and even DOS!), too. It's been awhile since I did any conversions like that, but when I did them, it involved using the command line, though there are probably graphical front-ends that would make it easier.

Or maybe you could just play the video and run Windows Sound Recorder, or whatever it's called, at the same time.

Just spit-balling here... I haven't used Windows in a while.

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Vehl

(1,915 posts)
4. No software installation needed..I use keepvid.com
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:10 PM
Jan 2012
http://keepvid.com/


^^ just copy paste the url of the youtube video into the textbox in the website, and you are good to go. Not only will it will give you a link to download the video, but it will list multiple video options, multiple formats and multiple resolutions. Furthermore there is also an option to merely rip and download the MP3 audio from the video-link.

Imho this is way better than having to install software and/or toolbars.

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