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YouTube hosts thousands of free songs in all genres, many posted with video montages, slideshows, and sometimes shots of a spinning turntable. While the quality is hardly the best, the quantity is staggering; YouTube is often the fastest and easiest way to hear a song. That's where DVDVideoSoft's Free YouTube to MP3 Converter steps in. Fast, simple, and free, it quickly downloads, converts, and saves audio tracks from YouTube videos as MP3s of several quality levels. It extracts audio from any YouTube video, not just songs, of course. You can save clips and play them on your audio player; and don't get us started on the funny noises! The point is that Free YouTube to MP3 Converter makes the job so fast and easy that you'll actually grab that audio instead of just thinking about it.
Free YouTube to MP3 Converter has what we like to see in tools of its type: a plain and simple interface, nothing fancy, all business. The main window told us to paste a YouTube URL inside it, so we did, after first browsing to YouTube and selecting a song posting. Each URL we pasted into the program appeared in the main window's list view. An interesting Paste button let us automatically queue and download items. We could edit Tags, when available, and select an Auto option. Drop-down lists let us select Format and Quality. Free YouTube to MP3 Converter supports AAC, FLAC, WAV, OGG, and other formats, with many more options available on the Preset Editor, including the ability to add new ones.
Free YouTube to MP3 made quick work of downloading, converting, and saving our tunes. You can only do so much with YouTube audio, of course, but these sounded fine -- hardly CD-quality, but good enough for MP3s (or free MP3s, at any rate). You get to hear lots of tunes, and why would you buy the CD (or the download) if you haven't heard the band?
Save the soundtrack from YouTube movies:Publisher's Description
From DVDVideoSoft:
Free YouTube to MP3 Converter downloads mp3 from all possible YouTube videos. This YouTube mp3 converter extracts audio from single YouTube videos as well as whole collections such as complete playlists and show lists, users' channels, all videos from personal playlists (History, Liked, Favourites, Watch later), artist's playlists, videos from Movies Category, videos from Music Category, videos from YouTube charts, and video responses.
Free YouTube to MP3 Converter combines simplicity of usage as well as advanced downloading features which you can set as you like save original (non-converted) YouTube files enjoy multistream downloading, customize output name easily, save and load links from external text files, save download history, import videos to iTunes automatically, download videos which require YouTube authorization via Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, enable compatibility with screen reading software.More Products to Consider
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"Works very well!"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
Reliable! Hasn't let me down yet!
Cons
May slow down as you download multiple items.
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"Great, I don't need more"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
Easy to use
Cons
Haven't find them yet
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"Great product but with at least one limitation"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
Fast and easy
Cons
Can not download sound from a selected limited part of a Utube URL [unless I don't know how to]
Summary
Would appreciate a response from DVDvideosoft
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"Full of spyware"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
The software itself does work perfectly. Downloads from YouTube in a variety of formats and even downloads video too. It can also work with playlists.
Cons
As good as the software is, to all the people wondering why this is free it's because it is full of spyware. Even if you say no to everything during the install process, Firefox warned me that a program was installing an Add-on without my permission. It also installs a Log Report tool that sends all kinds of system info, including browsers you use back to the company that creates it.
Summary
As I said, good software but beware because it is not free by a long shot. It is supported by advertising and user profiling. Better use one of the online video converters.
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"Works Great & Easy To Use"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
Could not be easier to use!
Cons
When loading this free version be careful as you can easily load many additional things if you are not careful!
Summary
Simple and easy to use.
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"Works Perfect !!!"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
I'm professional DJ. Using this program already 9 months.
Always worked perfectly for me. Easy interface, good quality of converted videos into mp3, many options - impressive, and it's free.Cons
I'm trying all the time to be up to the latest version (important for this kind of programs)
The only thing that bugs my mind, is how DVDvideoSoft is able to provide us this mother-of-conversion-program without any sort of payment. :-)Summary
Highly Recommended !!!
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"Works great!"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
This program has always worked perfectly for me. Easy interface, mostly user friendly, and it's free.
Cons
Unless you're careful, it will add an ever-increasing amount of bloatware along with the download. There is an option to uncheck the extra stuff, but you must be vigilant.
Summary
Great program, as long as you're careful.
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"Pretty darn good software"
Version: Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.11.36.1201
Pros
I use this program to get the audio from lectures on youtube. It took a 213 Mb video file and turned it into a 93Mb mp3 (Lame Standard Quality mp3, VBR, 48kHz, Joint Stereo - one of many output options). Not bad. The first mp3 I made favored the left side (probably a result of how the lecture was recorded), so I used mono settings for a second conversion, and it worked much better (32 Kbits/s, 44.1 kHz) - down to 19.5 Mb.
The various online converters either didn't work or timed out before I could download the audio (the conversion took 15-20 minutes - maybe more).
I was also able to enter the video's URL, which was perfect for my purposes. A different free program that I had installed before this one allowed me to search by artist name or song title, but not by URL, so it wasn't what I needed.
I'm still exploring this program's many options - impressive.Cons
It doesn't take as long as the websites I tried to use, but it still takes quite a while. Also, I didn't find an option for volume leveling.
But those aren't big issues.Summary
It's quite a good program - I recommend it.
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