Today, let’s see how to download music from youtube to computer.
Youtube is one of the most popular social media platforms whose main feature is to let its users share and watch videos online. Millions of people visit Youtube regularly for various purposes like uploading videos on their channel, watching others work to pass the time, or something useful.
Youtube is also a place where people can make millions just by uploading good quality personal youtube videos on their channel so that others can benefit something from it. Youtube is filled with videos, shorts, music, and live streams.
They started concentrating on developing their other services like Youtube Kids, which is an American video app solely for kids with curated selections of content, and parental control features.
Youtube Premium, which offers you ad-free access to content across the services, and other premium facilities that allows you to download videos and background playback of videos, Youtube music which has free access only when online and requires you to subscribe for downloading and listen to lyrical music from youtube music premium.
Even though there are many other music streaming apps and sites where you can download good quality songs, people prefer to listen to youtube music or watch music on youtube because most of the time, music or favorite audio gets released on Youtube first. The problem arises when you have to listen to songs offline, and you prefer only youtube videos.
How to download music from youtube to computer:
Yes, that’s the main focus of this article, that is, what are different ways to download music from youtube?
One of the simplest yet the lamest way to download music from youtube or any platform is to record music in any quiet place you can find and then easily listen to it or save it anywhere.
#Youtube music premium account
If you are rich enough to spend some money to access the premium facilities of the Youtube music app, then please go ahead. This is one of the easiest and most ethical ways to listen to music from youtube, even without downloading music.
With a youtube music premium membership, you can enjoy ad-free music, background play, audio-only mode, and download and listen to songs offline.
You need not sign in to use Youtube music if you are happy to use the web version where you can listen to the ad-supported version of the service. If you want the song to play in the background but don’t want to pay for premium services, there is a slightly different way for android and IOS devices.
#Android
- In your internet browser, navigate to music.youtube.com
- Select “Desktop mode” in the “Setting” section.
- After you press the play on the music you want to listen to, turn off the display.
- If the music stops playing, on the standby screen of the android, look for media controls, and it plays.
#IOS device
- Navigate to youtube.com in your safari browser and search for your favorite music video that you want to listen to.
- Tap the “Aa” button in the search bar and choose “request desktop site” from the drop-down menu.
- Hit Play on your videoThe video stops playing when you go back o your home screen or lock your screen. How to continue playing without going to the browser again?
- Dropdown Control Center and find the music playback widget, which should have a song track labeled. Just hit the play button.
Amount of people who listen to songs daily has increased enormously after the tragic covid waves hit us. Because listening to music would keep them alive and going in the dull, tasteless online routine.
Henceforth the need for good music streaming apps was also increasing. But most of them preferred to listen to music offline and free of cost. But anyway, this method is helpless if you want to listen to a playlist or your queue as you have to navigate the site every time.
Additionally, youtube ads are also waiting to disturb you. Hence, downloading other free software is better for listening to music and ad-free offline enjoyment.
#Y2mate
Y2mate is a converter and downloader tool that can deal with videos on various social media platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Dailymotion, to mp3 and mp4 in HD. This online converter also supports downloading videos into different output formats.
Y2mate is one of many websites that converts youtube to mp3 as quickly as possible. Easy, fast, and small, Y2mate YouTube Downloader is one of the best tools to download music files, and it’s also compatible with all the browsers.
Let’s go through how to download music from youtube to a computer online using Y2mate.com.
Step1: Copy the full youtube video link of your favorite youtube video from youtube.
Step 2: Navigate to y2mate.com in your internet browser and paste the URL you just copied from Youtube in the address bar.
Step 3: If you want to download youtube videos, navigate to “Video” and decide your preferred output format and file size.OR
Step 4: If you want to convert a youtube music video or a standard video to an audio file, navigate to “mp3” or “audio” and decide your preferred output format and file size.
Step 5: Just click on the “Download” button to proceed. Click on it once again when a warning pops up.
Step 6: If you want to rename your audio file, you can save it on your device.
Pop-up ads are regular on these websites that provide services to download youtube songs. This website has many ads and notifications, which leads to another potentially harmful webpage when clicked. Hence being an excellent youtube music downloader, it might not be safe because of y2mate’s virus.
Yet there is a way to control the pop-up ads. Simply by adding an Adblock extension to your google extensions if you are using chrome.
There is another faster way to download youtube music from youtube. Insert “pp” after the word “youtube” in the link in the top left corner and ENTER. Using this shortcut, we can avoid the first and second steps.
One drawback is that it doesn’t support downloading multiple videos but one song at a time.
#VLC player
The VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable media player software and a media server developed by the VideoLAN project. It can play audio files or any multimedia files directly from the PC. Its also a hassle-free, easy-to-use, robust and feature-packed software that helps play a wide range of audio, image, and video files.
If you don’t have access to the VLC media player, download it and install it from videolan.org and click the download button.
The method that we will demonstrate here would work for most youtube videos. It may display an error message saying, “Your input can’t be opened.” This is because YouTube restricts the location of the video on the web if it contains copyrighted videos.
Let’s go through how to download music from youtube to a computer online using the VLC media player…
Step 1: Open YouTube, go to the youtube video you want to download and copy the youtube URL of that video.
Step 2: Open the VLC player and click on “new network stream” by clicking on “media” in the top left corner.MAC users: Click “File” followed by “Open Network.”
Step 3: Paste the copied URL from the youtube app into the field. If you cannot play any YouTube audio or video, update to the latest version of VLC and try again. If the problem persists, copy this text and paste it into a new Notepad or editor file. Save the file as “youtube.lua”
Windows: navigate to “C:\Program Files (x86) or Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist” in file explorer.
Mac: Right-click on “VLC.app” in “Applications” and click “Show Contents“. Then navigate to “/MacOS/share/lua/playlist“.
Step 4: Delete the “youtube.luac” file and replace it with the “youtube.lua” file you saved.
Step 5: Check the youtube video’s codec information located differently in Windows and MAC.Windows: “Tools” -> “Codec Information”MAC: “Window” -> “Media Information”
Step 6: Copy and paste the URL that is displayed as “Location” to the search bar of your internet browser.
Step 7: Click on the three vertical dots, download the video to your computer, and enjoy your offline listening.
#DMFY
DMFY (Download Music From Youtube) is an online converter that efficiently converts youtube videos into other audio formats like mp3. It provides one of the simplest and quickest processes to download songs. Let’s go through how to download music from youtube to a computer online using DMFY…
Step1: Open youtube and select the youtube video to be converted to an audio file.
Step2: Navigate to downloadmusicfromyoutube.site. Now paste the URL copied to the given field and double click “go.”
Step3: Enjoy your downloaded music.
We’ve provided you with the best tools to download YouTube audio. Apart from these efficient ways, there is enormous software capable of converting youtube music videos to audio with good audio quality.
Be careful and watch out for copyrighted and non-copyrighted videos due to permission issues, especially for commercial purposes.
Last Updated on April 12, 2022 by Ms.Hazarika