YouTube Audio Downloader
Keep just the sound of any YouTube video: the original M4A track or an MP3, to listen to offline.
Paste a YouTube link, open the Audio tab and choose M4A, YouTube's own audio track saved unchanged, or MP3 at 128 or 320 kbps. Audio files are a fraction of the video's size: an hour of talk is about 55 MB. That makes them ideal for podcasts, lectures, audiobooks and music you want to hear offline.
YouTube's own audio, unchanged
M4A is the AAC audio track YouTube streams (about 128 kbps), saved as it is, with no conversion.
Made for long listening
Podcasts, lectures, sermons and audiobooks of several hours download in full. There is no length limit.
MP3 when you need it
Choose MP3 for car stereos, older players and apps that don't open M4A: 128 kbps for speech, 320 kbps for music.
Hear it first
Press Play Audio to listen in your browser, so you save the right recording.
Saves data and space
An hour of M4A is about 55 MB, around a twentieth of the same hour as 1080p video.
Plays on your phone
M4A plays in the iPhone Files app and in Android music players; MP3 plays everywhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
Paste the video's link at the top of this page and press the download button. Open the Audio tab, choose M4A or MP3 and press Download; when the file is ready, save it with the green Download button.
M4A is YouTube's own audio track, saved without conversion, so it is the most faithful copy and smaller than a 320 kbps MP3. Choose MP3 only when a device or app does not play M4A, such as some car stereos and older players.
Yes. It is the same AAC track (about 128 kbps) that YouTube streams, copied without re-encoding.
Yes. There is no length limit: a 2-hour recording is about 110 MB as M4A. Long recordings just take a little longer to prepare.
On iPhone, the file is saved in the Files app, where it plays. Android music players and file apps open M4A too, and so do the built-in players on Windows and Mac.
Yes. Press Play Audio on the download page to hear the track in your browser first.
Yes. Paste a music.youtube.com link the same way; the song is offered as M4A or MP3.
Private, members-only and age-restricted videos can't be downloaded, and live streams only after they end. After several downloads in a row, wait a few minutes before the next one.
