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You may have noticed that many YouTube videos are actually music with some kind of visual accompaniment added, such as still image slideshows, cover art, psychedelic effects, and a particular favorite, a video camera pointed at a spinning turntable. You can download and save tunes from YouTube with the greatest of ease with YouTube Music Downloader -- videos, too. This free tool makes it easy to grab and save YouTube files to play later, share with your friends, and do the other things you can do with freely available content. But YouTube Music Downloader lets you quickly choose your audio output quality from a drop-down menu, which saves tons of time in two important ways: it eliminates the need to convert the raw download to your chosen format and bit rate, and it makes the job quick and easy enough that you'll actually save that song instead of just thinking about it. By the time you've hemmed and hawed, you could be done with the download.
YouTube Music Downloader's interface is pretty basic, which goes with the territory: fields for Video URL and Save To (destination folder) as well as the previously mentioned drop-down menu, which changes its options between audio and video formats when you check either MP3/Music or Video. A Status bar tracks the job; a check box tells the program to delete videos after conversion. A Skin button has Hue and Saturation sliders that can produce any interface color you'd like. Clicking Update informed us that ours was the program's latest version. That's all there is to YouTube Music Downloader's controls, except a Help button that accesses basic Web resources.
We browsed to YouTube, searched for a familiar tune, and copied its link from the search results. We pasted the URL into YouTube Music Downloader, selected our format (which depends on availability), and pressed Download and Convert (actually, "Download and Convert!" but we kept our powder dry until the results were in). The job completed in a few seconds. YouTube Music Downloader not only grabbed the tune but the cover art as well. The results more than earned the exclamation mark!
YouTube Music Downloader-Download video and music from YouTube.-Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
From youtubemusicdownloader:
Free YouTube downloader. Both video and audio are supported. Optimized for speed. Support all available YouTube music quality and format: 44KHz Stereo H.264 AAC, 44KHz Stereo MP3, 44KHz Mono MP3, 22KHz Mono MP3, 22KHz Mono 3GP, 8KHz Stereo 3GP
Support all available YouTube Video quality and format: Full HD (1080P), HD, HQ, NQ, 3GP. Automatically try to find the available video/music with the highest quality. Get the video title and use it as the file name.
What's new in this version: Version 5.0 updated for recent YouTube layout change; improved youtube downloading speed with multiple threads; fixed several bugs in converters; optimized MP3/audio/video analysis.
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All versions:
3.4 starsout of 33 votes
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Current version:
3.0 starsout of 12 votes
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"Splitting audio from video /YouTube downloads"
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
Happy that I found this program (free) which allows me to split, record, and convert to mp3 the audio element from YouTube videos (reducing the file sizes
Cons
Take check marks off some offers of unwanted programs during installation
Summary
All in all a good product for my needs
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"Had Malware problems this time.."
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
Used this before, then after running SpyBot, and removing various spyware and malware, this Youtube downloader stopped working.. but at that time I had no idea why.. so I downloaded a fresh YouTubeMusicDownloader. I was very careful at install and un-clicked the extra ad-ware etc buttons, and installed it. Next thing the AVG antivirus spotted amalware item.. bang, still installed itself and added toolbars, changed registry files and more crap that I don't even know what.. so now I don't trust this anymore. will have to find something better than that.. thumbs down for greedy malware spreaders.
Cons
Too many to list, read above,
Summary
They started off good in the past, but now they are corrupt and greedy.. sad to see developers go that way.. stay away fro Music Youtube downloader, or risk having coupon companion, spying on your every move, and more crap you don't even know what they find out about YOU, yes, YOU, thats why they call it YOU tube ..get it, they get you into the TUBE
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"BEWARE! Comes with malware."
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
Never got to use it.
Cons
CNET download came with a ton of malware. It changed my browser and my home page. I've never had that happen with a CNET download before. I always thought CNET was the safest place to get open source software. Not this time.
Summary
Had a rough time getting the malware, toolbare and unwanted programs off my computer. Finally gave up and did a system restore. I was really lucky it worked. Really, beware of this. What a hassle!!
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"Pretty good downloader"
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
This free app does what it claims to do. I used this downloader from its version 1.0. The vendor update this software regularly to keep up with the changes of YouTube. Better than any other I have tried.
Cons
No bugs or errors were found yet.
Summary
Overall this is a great software for its FREE price. I downloaded 6 other YouTube downloading programs and nothing is as fast and easy as this one.
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"MALWARE INFESTED"
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
Not sure, took so long to get all the malware that it installed off my computer. I tried it, it works.
Cons
Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!! Malware!!!
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"I successfully downloaded many YouTube videos with it"
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
1) Just need the video URL, the software does the rest. Simple.
2) Auto convert video to music if required. Good.Cons
nothing to say.
Summary
Get free video, free music and free ringtone with this free software. :-)
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"Nice and work for me."
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
Incredibly fast downloading speed. It seems that the software uses multiple threads to download YouTube video.
Cons
No Cons found.
Summary
I use it for a few days.
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"Malware infested Changes Browser Home to "Face Smooch""
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
Does the tasks advertised - at the cost of your computer.
Cons
Malware infested
Summary
B E W A R E !
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"Works Perfect! THE BEST APP EVER"
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
I downloaded a lot of music videos with this application. Always worked perfectly for me. Great free YouTube downloader and video to mp3 converter.
Cons
None that I can see.
Summary
Download this YouTube Music Downloader software. Just be careful with the boxes when installing. There is no better free alternative out there.
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"This is the worst software I have ever downloaded."
Version: YouTube Music Downloader 5.0
Pros
It downloads ok BUT at what cost ??
Cons
It fills your PC with SPYWARE which is very hard to get rid of.
Very poor interface.Summary
Do Not Download this software. I surprised CNET has it on its list .. I am beginning to wonder if CNET is scanning their download list of software at all..
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