Convert YouTube to MP3
Extract the audio from a YouTube video and save it as MP3. Paste the link, choose a bitrate and download. Respect copyright.
Files are processed temporarily and deleted automatically. We keep no permanent copies.
How it works
- Paste a link.
- Choose the format and quality.
- Convert and download the result.
Built for the listening use cases
YouTube hosts an enormous amount of content whose picture adds nothing: recorded lectures and courses, interviews, podcasts published as video, talks, guided meditations, your own uploaded practice sessions. This page exists for exactly those - it skips the video stream entirely and gives you a clean MP3 that plays in any music or podcast app, responds to headphone controls, and keeps playing with the screen off.
The size difference is dramatic: an hour of video can be a gigabyte, while the same hour as speech-quality MP3 fits in tens of megabytes. If you're saving a lecture series for a commute, that's the difference between one episode and the whole course on your phone.
Bitrate: match it to what you're extracting
The bitrate choice follows the content. Music deserves the highest setting - it keeps the low end and the space in a mix, and the extra megabytes are worth it for something you'll replay. Voice needs far less: talks, lectures and interviews remain perfectly clear at lower bitrates, and the savings compound fast across a playlist of hour-long episodes.
A ceiling worth knowing about: YouTube itself serves compressed audio, so extraction preserves what YouTube has - it can't exceed it. That's also why the honest advice for music you love is to buy it or stream it from the artist's channel: the MP3 here is for content you have the right to keep, at the quality the platform actually carries.
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FAQ
What bitrate should I choose?
Highest for music, lower for voice. Talks and lectures stay perfectly intelligible at low bitrates and produce much smaller files; music keeps noticeably more detail at the top setting.
Can I convert a whole playlist at once?
No - the tool takes one video link at a time. For several videos, run each link separately; there's no cost and no daily cap, so a short queue only takes a few minutes.
Is the MP3 as good as the audio on YouTube?
At a high bitrate, effectively yes - in normal listening the extracted MP3 is indistinguishable from playing the video. It can't be better than YouTube's own stream, though: extraction preserves the source, it doesn't upgrade it.
Can I download music this way?
Only music you have the right to keep: your own tracks, releases the artist offers freely, Creative Commons material. Commercial music belongs to its rights holders - buy it or stream it; this tool doesn't change what you're licensed to do.
Where does the MP3 end up on my phone?
In Files under Downloads on an iPhone, and in the Downloads folder on Android - from there you can add it to any music or podcast app. Download promptly: files are deleted from our servers automatically and links expire.