Jul 30, 2019 Want to know how to record audio from YouTube on Mac (macOS Mojave, High Sierra included) or Windows PC with the best video recorder for YouTube to make your own music collection? Look no further! Here are the easiest way to record YouTube audio on Mac and Windows 10, or extract YouTube audio on iPhone or Android devices. Today I’m going to show you how to capture sound produced by your Mac for free. The first thing you need is a copy of Cycling 74’s Soundflower, which you can get from cycling74.com.
Watching music videos on YouTube is a great enjoyment for music lovers. But what if you just want to listen to the audio in these music videos? It seems impossible for you to capture audio from YouTube. But with the help of the third-party software, you will get the audio from YouTube with ease. In this post, we will present you two pieces of powerful audio capturing software to help you capture YouTube audio without efforts.
Part 1: How to Capture Audio from YouTube by Recording Audio
The first method is to make use of music recording software to record audio from YouTube. There are plenty of music recording tools for capturing audio from YouTube. Here I highly recommend one of the best music recording software, Leawo Music Recorder. It is designed for recording audio/music from computer audio and online music sources like YouTube, AOL Music, Last.fm, etc. and as well Mic or other built-in input audio stream like Realtek High Definition Audio, Realtek Digital Input, etc. With the assistance of task scheduler, it allows you to schedule music recording by setting the recording start time and duration. Powered by great online music database, Leawo Music Recorder could automatically download and add music tags like artist, album, album artwork, song name, etc. to recorded music files. As a smart music recording software app, it allows you to edit music tags manually, manage and play recordings in media library. In this post, we will show you how to capture audio from YouTube with Leawo Music Recorder.
1. After kicking it off, click the “Audio Source” icon on the main interface to set audio source firstly. To record online audio and record streaming audio, select “Record Computer Audio” option.
2. After setting audio source, open the “General” tab to set output directory to save recorded YouTube audio in the “Output” box. You could also set program language here.
3. Then, go to the “Format” tab to choose either MP3 or WAV as output format, and adjust audio parameters like bit rate and aspect ratio in the “Audio Setting” box. After that, click the yellow “OK” button.
4. To start recording, hit the big red “Start” button at the top left corner. And then click to play YouTube video. It should be noted that you first let this music recording software start recording and then play your source audio for recording completeness. Also you can set the timer to record audio. Click the second icon at the bottom left corner to enter the Recording Task Scheduler and set the timer.
4. For music fans, Leawo Music Recorder has a very useful feature. It could automatically search, download and add music tags to your recordings. You could view all these tags automatically added during the recording. But you are allowed to edit the music tags manually. In the “Media” section, you can check out all the recordings in the “Library“. And then you can right click a recording, choose “Edit Music Tags” and edit the music tag by yourself.
With Leawo Music Recorder, you could not only record audio from YouTube, but also record and download songs from Spotify, Last.fm, Napster, iTunes, etc. You could even record your voice to save in MP3 or WAV audio file.
Part 2: How to Capture Audio from YouTube by Downloading Audio
In addition to recording audio from YouTube, you could also capture YouTube audio by downloading audio from YouTube with YouTube downloading software. Among all kinds of YouTube video/audio downloading tools, Leawo YouTube Downloader is regarded as one of the best. Apart from downloading YouTube videos and audios from Facebook, and other video/music sharing sites like Dailymotion, AOL, iFilm, Myspace, Dailymotion, etc., it can also download online flash videos at high speed. Besides, this YouTube downloader includes an online video player, which would play back YouTube videos and other online videos smoothly and fluently. In addition, the IE browser allows users to browse online videos for downloading and playback, just like Chrome or IE browser.
The following guide will show you how to capture audio from YouTube by downloading audio from YouTube with YouTube downloader.
1. Download and install Leawo Video Downloader on Leawo’s official site, open it and you would find that it’s included in a software package named Prof. Media. Run Prof. Media and click Video Downloader tab to open Leawo Video Downloader.
2. Click the settings button in the wheel icon at the top-right corner and then move to the “Settings > Downloader” tab to set a directory to download and save YouTube audio in the “Save videos to” box.
3. After clicking Video Downloader tab and setting download directory, the built-in web browser in the video downloader would take you to YouTube by default (Can be changed to any website you want in Settings). To go to other website just click the address bar at the top and input the new address.
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4. Open the link with the video you want to download and the video downloader would detect the downloadable video source automatically. When it finishes detecting and analyzing, all downloadable video sources would be shown on the sidebar on the right. If the sidebar didn’t come up when you open the video link, just click the green button in the middle of the scroll bar with a leftwards triangle on it to call it out. On the sidebar you could see all the downloadable video source with detailed information like the format, resolution and size of the video. Click the Download button on the video you want to download to start downloading the video. Because you want to download audio only, you need to choose the “audio only” format to download.
5. Check out the downloading audio in the Downloading tab next to the address bar. When the video finishes downloading, check it out under Downloaded tab. You could freely play back downloaded YouTube videos now. If you want to extract audio off downloaded videos, you could right click the target downloaded YouTube video and then choose “Add to Convert” option to convert downloaded YouTube videos to audio file.
Part 3: How to Capture Audio from YouTube via Online YouTube Audio Downloader
Some people may prefer free tools to download and capture audio from YouTube videos since they might only need the audio of YouTube videos as background music or other uses. There are quite a few wonderful and free YouTube audio downloader tools available in the market. Here in this guide we would like to recommend you free online YouTube audio downloader tools. There are quite a few advantages of free online YouTube audio downloaders: free, free of download and installation, fast and convenient.
The below steps would take youtubemp3.today as an example to show you how to download and capture audio from YouTube video via free online YouTube audio downloader tools. Check the detailed guide below:
1. Directly open the webpage at https://youtubemp3.today/.
2. Copy and paste the YouTube video URL into the browser bar on this free online YouTube audio downloader. Or, you could directly search target YouTube video here.
3. The YouTube video title will now show up as well as multiple MP3 download buttons in different bit rates. Choose the Button(s) you like.
4. Now click the download button(s) to start to download desired YouTube audios from target videos. You could try to click multiple download buttons to include all target audios you want.
5. After you click corresponding download buttons, this free online YouTube audio downloader would start to downloading YouTube audio and converting to MP3 files online. You then will be guided to set download directory and name the file on a pop-up “Save As” window. Just follow the on-screen instructions to move on.
The downloaded YouTube audios will be saved in MP3 format. After downloading, you could play back downloaded MP3 audio files to check if they are exactly what you want.
Part 4: How to Capture Audio from YouTube using Chrome extension
For Chrome browser users, you could try Audio Capture for Chrome for capturing audio from YouTube. As a Chrome extension, Audio Capture enables you to capture any audio playing on Chrome browser. It could capture audio from multiple browser tabs at the same time to save audio into either .mp3 or .wav format. If you only want to capture audio from one single tab, you could mute other tabs.
The below steps would show you how to capture audio from YouTube on Chrome browser via Audio Capture for Chrome:
1. Install Audio Capture to your Chrome from the Chrome Web Store.
2. Click the Audio Capture extension icon on your Chrome and then choose “Options” button to do settings including: mute other tabs, remove capture time limit, set output format from mp3 and wav, and set MP3 audio quality (if you choose MP3 as recording format). After that, click “Save Settings” button.
3. Open the YouTube page that contains the audio you want to capture, play back the song and then click the red icon on the extension panel to start recording YouTube audio.
4. Click the red icon again and then choose “Stop recording” option.
5. On the download recording panel, set download path and download recordings to your computer.
Audio Capture for Chrome could help you easily capture audio from YouTube and other online audio pages into MP3 or WAV audio file.
YouTube, which is designed especially for sharing videos, has become more and more popular in the world since its founded date – Feb 14th, 2005. Nearly any type of videos you would like to watch can be found on this website because it hosts a wide variety of contents. While watching videos, if you just come across audio playing in the videos you want to put on your iPhone, iPad, burn to CD, save to computer, etc, how do you achieve that? As we all know, there is no any workable button like “record audio” on YouTube. Don’t worry. We can use some third-party tools to record YouTube audio directly.
I. Free online solution
How To Capture Audio From Youtube
II. Easy-to-use software
How to record audio from YouTube on Windows/Mac
Tips: The tools we are going to share with you below are compatible with Windows 10, 7, 8, Vista, XP and Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion and all other versions.
1. Free Online Audio Recorder
Free Online Audio Recorder is a web-based application developed by Apowersoft Company. No registration or any subscription required, you can start to record audio from system sound, microphone or both of them very conveniently and simply. Based upon “what you hear is what you record” theory, there is no quality loss for the output audio. This free YouTube audio recorder has been well received by millions of users since its publication.
Highlighted features of it:
- Support recording audio from streaming video, internet stations, webcam, media players, etc.
- Provide elegant ID3 tags editor for users to add cover, title, artist, year, and so on.
- Save recorded file to computer hard disk as MP3 format.
- Allow you to playback the audio after recording via loop, single and shuffle modes.
- Support one-click to locate the recorded files exactly.
How to record audio from YouTube via it:
- Open Free Online Audio Recorder on your browser. Install the launcher at first if you haven’t used it before on your computer.
- Select audio source input as system sound and go to play YouTube video online. Click the red “Start” button to begin recording when you hear the sound you want to save. To skip any portion of audio you don’t like to save, just tap “Pause” button and “Resume” to keep on recording. Click “Stop” button when you finish recording.
- Tap “Recording list” button and then you are guided to another window. Here you can play files, edit ID3 tags or choose to record sound from YouTube once again.
2. Streaming Audio Recorder
Streaming Audio Recorder is a full-featured audio recording program which lets you record sound in no time, listen to 36 genres of online radios, search any songs for downloading, and manage recording library. Plus, it comes with many excellent tools including audio converter, audio editor, video to mp3 converter, CD burner, CD ripper, ID3 tag identifier, ID3 tag editor and so on. It is not merely a YouTube sound recorder, but also a multi-functional audio application. If you are curious or fascinated by its powerful functions, just download and try it right now!
Outstanding functions of it:
- Record HD quality audio playing on your computer system sound card or words speaking through microphone on PC.
- Save files in various formats such as MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, OGG and FLAC.
- Endow you the ability to automatically skip silence, split track in specialized period, etc.
- Transfer audio files to iTunes for syncing to your iPhone, iPad or iPod.
- Provide built-in scheduler to schedule recording tasks at certain dates and times.
- Top 10 songs or 10 artists are available for you to download or listen to online for personal usage.
To record YouTube audio, just follow this guide:
- Download it and double click it for installing. The whole process will just take you a very short time.
- Hit the Gear icon and scroll to Settings button, click it. Select General settings tab, you can set the keyboard shortcuts for starting, pausing and stopping audio recording. Select the Record settings, you are able to set the audio source, quality, format, output directory and do other advanced audio settings. Click “OK” to save what you have done.
- Play YouTube video now and hit “Record” button whenever you want to record sound from YouTube. You have the ability to control recording by clicking “Pause”, “Resume” and “Stop” buttons.
Bottom line
Obviously, both of the above tools we talk about are very easy to operate and can record audio with perfect quality. Free Online Audio Recorder can only record audio through the mouse control and save it to MP3 format. Comparing to this, Streaming Audio Recorder will bring you a lot of benefits because of its versatility. However, Streaming Audio Recorder is not a free program which has some limitations like 3 minute recording, trial reminder, identifying 3 tracks only. Anyway, you may choose either YouTube audio recorder to accomplish your task according to your requirements.