How Can I Rip Music off YouTube Videos?

Dear friends, how do you usually download music from YouTube? Do you use an online YouTube downloader to do that? Today I'll show you another way to rip music off YouTube videos. That is to say, I'll grab the YouTube video as well as audio to my computer folder.

We need a tool to do the this. Introducing Flash to Video converter, a free download program that enables to convert swf files to popular video formats, such as mp4, mov, mpeg, etc. The software can also convert flash to mp3 format as well. That's what we need today.

Here's the process:

Step 1: Visit YouTube and come to the video page that you want to rip an audio off. For example, I want to get audio of the famous video Gangnam Style, so I visit its page. Below the video, click Share tab and choose Embed. Remember to tick the Use old embed code box. Find the "src=", copy a part of URL as the selected part.

Step 2: Download, install and launch Flash to Video converter. On the user interface, click Browse... button to show the drop-down menu. Choose From Url option.Then Paste the Url address and hit OK.

Step 3: Now the video is input into the program. You can preview the video and take a snapshot. Click 2 Export to continue.

Step 4: In the Export tab, remember to check the box before Rip Audio. You also need to click the folder icon to choose a path to store the converted music. For other options, you can leave them as default. Click 3 Convert to continue.

Step 5: Click Play and Capture to start the conversion. Depends on file size, usually it takes a couple of minutes to do the conversion. When it's finished,open your folder to find the music file.

That's off. This is how I rip a song off YouTube. How about you?


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