

If you use Chrome, a good option is Video Downloader. I haven’t found a good audio-only downloader for non-YouTube videos (if you have, please share in the comments), but there are several general-purpose FLV ripper extensions that install into your browser and easily save streaming video as a file on your disk. If you want to grab audio from a source other than YouTube, your options are a little more limited.

This fixed the problem, and I had no issues with either Internet Explorer or Firefox. Note: I was having difficulty getting to correctly download files in Chrome until I temporarily disabled my extensions. Just click on one of the video links directly below the video window.

Incidentally, if you want to record a video, you can do that from the same interface. Normalize: Keeps the volume of the video in a consistent range, so it won’t sound out of the place with other audio files.Īnd that’s about it-click on the Record MP3 button to save the audio stream to your disk.

A lot of YouTube videos have a splash screen at the beginning or end that won’t come across well in an audio-only file, so it’s worth leaving this checked.
