How to Record Audio from YouTube – Best YouTube Audio Recorders

YouTube as one of the largest video sharing platforms, which not only offers a wide variety of videos but also provides a lot of audios for viewers. According to YouTube's official claim, more than 4 billion hours of sound are played per month. This statistic stands for more and more users are trending to enjoy hot music and songs on YouTube.

There is no doubt that you almost can find any sounds on YouTube. But if you'd like to listen to them on offline or play YouTube audios on other devices, can you extract audio from YouTube video? Here in this post, we will introduce the best two programs to help you to record YouTube to MP3 with keeping the original audio quality.

Part 1. Online Record YouTube Music for Free

In fact, there are many apps supports to record YouTube audios as MP3, such as VLC, iTunes, other third-party audio recorders. Online Video Converter is an outstanding tool among them, compared with others, this tool is totally free and doesn't need to install. In other words, with the assistance of this amazing tool, you will able to extract audio tracks from YouTube videos as MP3.
Moreover, this program is easy-control for new users. Just need to follow this tutorial to record YouTube audio to MP3.

Step 1. Launch the browser and navigate to YouTube official website, then search and find your favorite video. Simply copy the URL link of this YouTube video.

Step 2. Move to the Online Video Converter site on your browser. Paste the copied link in the search box on the online converter's main interface.

Step 3. Choose output format as MP3 and then click the Convert button.

Step 4. Once the conversion process is done, touch on the download button to save the captured audios on your computer.

Part 2. Extract Sound from YouTube Video with Desktop App

When it comes to talking about recording audios from YouTube, you can't miss this another powerful software – AudFree Audio Capture, it is an all-around audio record supports to extract audio from YouTube video losslessly. More conveniently, AudFree can batch convert YouTube music to MP3 automatically and this tool can preserve the YouTube song's ID 3 tags information so that you can manage the music library effortlessly.

Apart from recording YouTube songs as MP3, AudFree Audio Capture also can record other sounds playing on your computer like Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify, iTunes Movies, in-game sound, online radios, etc. Then you will able to playback them on offline even without internet connection. Please read on to learn how to record YouTube Music as MP3 easily.

Step 1. Launch AudFree Audio Capture desktop app on your computer and then add your browser program to AudFree. Simply drag & drop your browser icon from desktop to AudFree main interface, you will find the icon will appear on AudFree Audio Capture.

Tips: To extract audios from YouTube more stable, here you are suggested to use the 'Google Chrome' to record audio files. AudFree is perfectly compatible with Google Chrome.

Step 2. Before starting the recording, you can touch the audio icon at the right-bottom of AudFree, then you will enter the Format settings window, in which you are allowed to set the output format as MP3, WAV, AAC, FALC, M4A, and M4B. Also, you can customize the Codec, Sample Rate, Bit Rate settings according to your demands.

Step 3. After all the settings are done, hit on the Chrome icon on AudFree to open the browser. Then you need to go to YouTube site and play the videos you need to capture. After playing video on YouTube, you will see a new recording task starting on AudFree Audio Capture.

Step 4. If you stop to play videos on browser, AudFree Audio Capture will stop to record sound from YouTube. Then you just need to touch the 'Save' button to preserve all the recorded sound to your local folder. Then click the 'history' button to locate the recorded YouTube audio files.

Part 3. Final Verdict

Online Video Converter and AudFree Audio Capture are top two best tools to record music from YouTube. If you wouldn't like to install a program to your computer, this online program is suitable for you. But if you need to batch record a lot of YouTube songs, AudFree Audio Capture is more stable and includes many advanced features.