btlancaster24 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 What's the best way to download music from YouTube to iTunes? Is this possible? For Mac. ROON w/ TIDAL > iMac (21.5", Late 2013) 3.1 GHz Intel Quad Core i7 - 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 > macOS Catalina 10.15.7 > 250 Apple Flash Storage / SSD > Apple Airport Extreme > Bluesound Node 2i > Audioquest Cinnamon Digital Coax > Peachtree Audio Nova 150 > Monster HTS 1600 > Blue Jeans Speaker Cables > Vintage Klipsch Kg2 Speakers Link to comment
wgscott Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 It is possible. HTML5. The legality is questionable at best. Link to comment
ajoe Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 https://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/ Link to comment
edtsui Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 What's the best way to download music from YouTube to iTunes? Is this possible? For Mac. If you use Firefox as a browser, there are many plugins that you can install to download either video or audio from YouTube to your computer. Most of these plugins are free. Just google it. Link to comment
starmike Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 What's the best way to download music from YouTube to iTunes? Is this possible? For Mac. Grab 4K Video Downloader. You can download video or audio only. Link to comment
wgscott Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 It is possible. HTML5. Using the Click to Flash Safari plugin, HTML5 video is displayed and you can just download the from the contextual display menu (control-click or right-click). No additional software required. If you want just the audio portion, open the video in quicktime and go to export, and export the audio. Link to comment
CatManDo Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 I use jdownloader, which does many other great things. JDownloader.org - Official Homepage Guide: How To Easily Download Any YouTube Video Using JDownloader Claude Link to comment
tmtomh Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 As folks noted, there are tons of options, but be aware that virtually all YouTube audio is going to be AAC lossy compressed - and in my experience a lot of it is 128, or even sometimes 96kbps quality. 128 is arguably passable, but 256 is preferable, and 96 just sounds awful. Also, it is not always easy to to tell what the bitrate is (96, 128 or 256), and if you're not careful you can accidentally re-encode the audio when you extract it from the video, resulting in a lossy AAC conversion of an already lossless AAC file. Link to comment
new_media Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I usually rip the MP4 file with audio and video intact, and then use Quicktime Pro to export the audio to avoid re-encoding. The majority seem to be 160 or 192 kbps, though I have run across a few that were 256. Link to comment
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