How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3

YouTube has become one of the best media sharing platforms on the internet. While there are other video sharing sites on the internet, YouTube is still on top due to some very legitimate reasons. First of all, YouTube is a part of Google’s services and they have the best video distribution platform. You can easily watch videos on the platform and those videos will play just fine even on slow internet.

Secondly, it is a publishing platform where you can publish videos and earn money from Google AdSense by showing ads on your videos. YouTube is also a big platform for artists and labels to post their music. You will find a big number of professional and indie music artists posting their work on YouTube. This lets them have a big platform to share their creations on and it has a lot of potential too.

It is good for a person like me who listens to music while working and I can just have a YouTube tab open and work in a different tab altogether. But what if you want to carry this music with you?

Surprisingly, you can convert the YouTube videos into another file format you want and take them with you anywhere on your smartphone or music play to listen to them anywhere. I personally do it for downloading music from indie artists and to listen to podcasts on the go. Let us learn how to convert YouTube videos to MP3 in this post.

Convert YouTube Videos to MP3

The step to convert these YouTube videos to MP3 is very easy and you don’t need to download any sort of software in order to convert these. You have online services that let you convert these videos to MP3 online.

1. Convert2mp3.net: YouTube to mp3 Converter

This is an online website that specifically converts YouTube videos to mp3, mp4, avi, wav and other popular audio and video formats. All you need here is the link of the video to convert it. Just follow the steps below:

• Head over to http://convert2mp3.net.
• Copy the link from YouTube’s video (or the link from other services) and switch to the tab where you have opened the website that we will use to download the mp3.
• Paste the link into the input box on the converter page and click the convert button.
• Add the tags or skip that step. On the next page, click on the Download button and the converted MP3 will start downloading.

2. Airy

If you need a desktop-level app to download YouTube videos and convert them to MP3, Airy is a great choice indeed. Airy is technically a YouTube video downloader. You will be able to download almost every YouTube video, right from your Mac or PC. However, the app also has a dedicated option for MP3 downloads. Using the app is also great, and the UI is pretty intuitive.

To use Airy, you have to download and install the program on your device. Once you are done, you can paste the URL of the YouTube video that you want to convert. After you do that, choose MP3 from the drop-down menu you see below the search bar. Hit the Download button and Airy would automatically download the video, convert it and present you an MP3 file.

Pretty great, huh? It’s priced pretty reasonably too, and you can download/convert 5 videos free of cost.

3. Y2Mate.com

Another great online YouTube converter is https://y2mate.com/youtube-to-mp3/. This converter works similarly to the one that we already mentioned above.

This is all you need to do in order to convert YouTube videos to MP3 and the process, as you saw, is very simple and easy to use. You can use this method to download music from indie artists, podcasts and more. This process makes it very easy for you to take the music you like with you.