How to download YouTube videos as MP3

YouTube is the biggest video sharing platform where users upload and share videos. It’s one of the biggest video resources and it is kind of impossible to tell how many videos are on YouTube.

If you enjoyed much time on YouTube, then you must come across some fantastic audio while watching youtube videos. At that moment, you are probably eager to download and trim the certain music&audio off YouTube. But how? That's where this tutorial comes in: if you would like to download video from YouTube to MP3 to play it offline on a portable MP3 player like iPod, Sony Walkman, MP3 player, etc., this step-by-step guide will show you how to convert YouTube to MP3. It includes three parts.

How to download YouTube video

YouTube Grabber
YouTube Grabber downloads files from YouTube in .FLV format. Copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, press "grab", and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.

How to convert YouTube video to MP3

What you need
There are many downloadable application tools in the internet that offers Youtube conversion service. Some may have more bells and whistles than others; you just need the correct software. Here, I would introduce iSkysoft Video Converter that allows you to convert the audio from none-copyrighted video clips on video sites! It supports all of your favorites, both High-Definition videos and Standard-Definition videos via network like Myspace, YouTube, Google, Hulu and more. More then that, it can convert any none-copyrighted videos&audio, add subtitle, trim&merge, etc. Below are a few steps and you will be on your way to start the conversion process.

1. Download iSkysoft Video Converter, install and run it.

2. Click "ADD" to load your video.

3. Output settings
After you add video files, you can select an output format for each video file and find the destination folder on your computer for saving the output files;

Click the "Profile" drop-down menu to select the output format you need to convert;
Click the "Output" button to find the destination folder for saving output file;

4. Hit "start" to begin the conversion.

How to trim certain audio or merge multiple audio files together

Trim certain audio

If you have listened to something on YouTube that you really enjoyed, but the whole audio file is too large for you, or only certain audio that you need, then you may want to trim some part off. There are options on iSkysoft Video Converter to capture a certain clip. Go to "Edit", click trim, by dragging the Start Time slider to set the start timeand dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time you can get the ideal audio duration.

Merge multiple audio files

There is only one click for you to merge multiple files. On the main panel, select the files, and then check the "merge into one file" before converting.