good youtube to mp3 websites

[Super Suit 12]

https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/mp3-converter

this

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[Darth C3P0²]

https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com/mp3-converter

this
you add tags on the videos which is loving awesome

[warble]

i use http://www.saveclipbro.com/ you can save portions or whole videos and can choose other formats such as ogg to convert to as well there are a lot of advanced settings and ZERO ads

[NotBomberguy]

i use https://y2mate.com/

[Stick Man]

I personally use mp3fiber. Works with a wide variety of sites to boot.

[Khorde]

i just type "gen" infront of the youtube url and it gives me mp3 and even mp4 and more options to choose from

[SwiftHyena2593]

http://www.listentoyoutube.com/

this is my personal favorite.

[Brikichu]

This is a great one, honestly I do not see audio quality difference for whatever reason, all I see is huge changes in audio size.

Even better when I loop a 5 minute song in stereo ogg and its only like 1MB with the lowest quality and the sounds are still identical compared to the original 7MB

You just don't have the golden ears to hear the difference. :^)

[Ipquarx]

This is what I would do, youtube audio is already compressed but this way there's no chance of the converter further degrading the audio quality

except at the end you have to export it and if you export it in a compressed format then it does degrade it further

http://www.clipconverter.cc/ can allow you to directly download the audio stream that youtube gives your browser but will block you from getting it from certain videos that it recognizes as copyrighted content. Worth a shot anyway.
https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/ will give you a nice convenient GUI to interface with youtube-dl and also allows you to get the direct audio.

[Foxscotch]

oh
youtube-dl -f 140 [link]
youtube-dl -f 171 [link]
assuming it's youtube specifically. 140/171 is the format code. you can get a list of formats with youtube-dl -F [link], and for youtube itself the format code for the highest quality audio is 171, but idk wtf to do with .webm audio so I just use 140 for the .m4a
-F tends to have output like this

[info] Available formats for bA27shFII6g:
format code  extension  resolution note
249          webm       audio only DASH audio   50k , opus @ 50k, 1.02MiB
250          webm       audio only DASH audio   64k , opus @ 70k, 1.29MiB
251          webm       audio only DASH audio  125k , opus @160k, 2.57MiB
140          m4a        audio only DASH audio  128k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 2.73MiB
171          webm       audio only DASH audio  183k , vorbis@128k, 2.75MiB
278          webm       144x144    144p         35k , webm container, vp9, 13fps, video only, 510.44KiB
242          webm       240x240    240p         41k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 889.41KiB
243          webm       360x360    360p         75k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 1.44MiB
134          mp4        360x360    360p        106k , avc1.4d4015, 25fps, video only, 1.65MiB
160          mp4        144x144    144p        113k , avc1.42c00c, 13fps, video only, 1.86MiB
244          webm       480x480    480p        141k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 2.52MiB
133          mp4        240x240    240p        265k , avc1.4d400d, 25fps, video only, 3.99MiB
135          mp4        480x480    480p        333k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 4.48MiB
17           3gp        176x144    small            , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k
36           3gp        240x240    small            , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2
18           mp4        360x360    medium           , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k
43           webm       640x360    medium           , vp8.0, vorbis@128k (best)

[Mega-Bear]

except at the end you have to export it and if you export it in a compressed format then it does degrade it further

true, but why would anyone export it in an even more compressed format than what youtube offers? I don't do youtube rips so I don't speak from a place of experience.

[Ipquarx]

true, but why would anyone export it in an even more compressed format than what youtube offers? I don't do youtube rips so I don't speak from a place of experience.

okay, so, let me clarify how audio exporting works at the moment
you can choose 2 types of formats: Lossless, or Lossy.

If you choose Lossless (like FLAC or WAV) then you'll be left with the same quality that the YouTube video had, but at the cost of a huge filesize.
If you choose Lossy (like AAC or MP3) then, no matter what quality level you choose to export at, the audio quality will be degraded from that of the original, but you can minimize it to the point of not being able to hear it at the cost of a larger filesize.

But, if you just grab the audio stream directly then you get the "perfect" (equal to YouTube) quality at a pretty low filesize, since YouTube usually only uses 128kbps audio.

[Mega-Bear]

okay, so, let me clarify how audio exporting works at the moment
you can choose 2 types of formats: Lossless, or Lossy.

If you choose Lossless (like FLAC or WAV) then you'll be left with the same quality that the YouTube video had, but at the cost of a huge filesize.
If you choose Lossy (like AAC or MP3) then, no matter what quality level you choose to export at, the audio quality will be degraded from that of the original, but you can minimize it to the point of not being able to hear it at the cost of a larger filesize.

But, if you just grab the audio stream directly then you get the "perfect" (equal to YouTube) quality at a pretty low filesize, since YouTube usually only uses 128kbps audio.

now I see what you mean, I do a lot of stuff with audio so I guess I just misunderstood what you were saying at first.

[The Murderous Cop]

https://fy.3dyd.com/

you can also use this component/addon if you have foobar2k
once you have it installed it's basically the easiest loving thing
1. go here


2. paste any link here


3. convert it





4. done

[K3k0m@n]

https://fy.3dyd.com/

oh stuff this is really good, thanks a lot