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YouTube sound to MP3 on iMac

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:20 pm
by Steve Bliven
I have an older iMac running 10.5.8. I'd like to find an app to download the sound from YouTube videos to my computer as MP3 or MP4 so's I can run them through slow-down apps. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance and best wishes.

Steve

Re: YouTube sound to MP3 on iMac

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:18 pm
by Flexismart

Re: YouTube sound to MP3 on iMac

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:26 pm
by kkrell

Re: YouTube sound to MP3 on iMac

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:19 am
by colomon
If you're okay using the command line, my preferred solution is youtube-dl with the -x ("extract MP3") flag.

Re: YouTube sound to MP3 on iMac

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:46 pm
by Steve Bliven
Thanks very much folks. Much appreciated.

Best wishes.

Steve

Re: YouTube sound to MP3 on iMac

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:51 pm
by An Draighean
I use a plug-in for Firefox called "Wondershare".

Re: YouTube sound to MP3 on iMac

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 11:32 am
by Mr.Gumby
I use, also in Firefox, Video Download Helper in the past and was happy enough. Dpwnloaded it again a few days ago, it has a number of conversion options.

You do know Youtube has a 'speed' option? For the ones you don't want to download but still want to hear at half or quarter speed.