
- #HOW TO CONVERT A YOUTUBE VIDEO INTO AN AUDIO FILE 320KBPS#
- #HOW TO CONVERT A YOUTUBE VIDEO INTO AN AUDIO FILE 1080P#
- #HOW TO CONVERT A YOUTUBE VIDEO INTO AN AUDIO FILE INSTALL#
Just make sure you pick the right one.įor example, if you have a 64bit version of Windows, you’ll want the 64bit LAME codec.

Incidentally, on the LAME download site you’ll see several options. We need to download the LAME bundle and then point foobar2000 to the lame.exe file so we can finish converting our RadioHead Youtube rip. It’s an open source MP3 codec that lets you encode audio into the popular MP3 format. LAME is a recursive acronym for “LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder”. We’ll that’s the second part of the process here. When you click save foobar2000 will ask you to locate lame.exe. That’s unfortunate however, the audio degradation is minuscule and only noticeable to people with extremely discerning ears.Īfter this foobar2000 will prompt you for a location to save your mp3. Basically, foobar2000 is informing us that we’re going to lose audio quality because we’re re-encoding a previously encoded file.

Now when you choose the Convert button in the bottom right corner of the screen, you may see a scary transcode warning about audio quality.
#HOW TO CONVERT A YOUTUBE VIDEO INTO AN AUDIO FILE 320KBPS#
Now slide the quality slider all the to the right of the screen to 320kbps this will give you the best mp3 audio quality from your mp4 rip.Ĭlick OK to return to the Quick Convert screen.

On the Quick Convert screen double click MP3(LAME) in the codec list If it doesn’t play for you then your mp4 file might be corrupt however, if it plays, right click it and choose Convert and pick Quick Convert from the fly-out menu. The point is that it needs to play here before you can convert it. I’m testing a lossless audio rip for this demonstration but you use anything you like. We can always change this later ( Ctrl + p opens preferences to change it) so don’t get stressed.ĭrag and drop the Mp4 file into the foobar2000 workspace then press the play button to make sure you can hear the music.
#HOW TO CONVERT A YOUTUBE VIDEO INTO AN AUDIO FILE INSTALL#
This is important because it’ll enable the Converter option which we’ll need later.Īfter clicking the Install button, the installation wizard will whiz by and kick open the Quick Appearance Setup box. In the drop down box above the component list, make sure you set the type of install to Full So on the Choose Install Type screen keep it set to Standard installation and click Next.

When clicking through the foobar2000 installation wizard keep most of the defaults. Head on over to and download the latest stable version. It can play almost any music format, especially DVD-As and Super Audio CDs and for for audiophiles like me – that’s bliss. On the contrary, foobar2000 is categorically the best music player I’ve ever used and in my opinion, it rivals iTunes and even the illustrious Winamp. Get FUBAR’dįirst we need to download the free and nimble open-sourced music player called foobar2000.įUBAR is a military acronym for Fucked up beyond all recognition but the foobar2000 player is actually a misnomer because nothing about it is “ fucked up“. There are a few steps involved but once you get going it’s cake. Is there an easy way to download just the audio part so you can listen to it on your portable music player? In other words, you want to convert the video file into a traditional mp3 file but don’t want to trash the audio quality during the conversion.
#HOW TO CONVERT A YOUTUBE VIDEO INTO AN AUDIO FILE 1080P#
Let’s say you’re surfing Youtube one day and you come across a sparkling 1080p music video from RadioHead that sounds great.
