YouTube MP3
Audio is all you need for a podcast, a sermon, a mix or a talk you want on repeat during a commute. Paste the address below and the MP3 is ready in a few seconds, with the picture left behind. Download YouTube MP3 free, save YouTube music as MP3 and convert YouTube to MP3 audio online.
Why people want the MP3 and not the video
A phone screen off and headphones in is how most long form YouTube is really consumed. The picture costs storage and battery for nothing.
An hour of audio sits comfortably under 70 MB, where the same hour of video can pass a gigabyte.
Where the MP3 plays
MP3 is the one audio format everything reads: car stereos, old iPods, cheap players, smart speakers through a USB stick, and every phone made in the last twenty years.
That universal support is the reason it is still the default choice even though newer formats compress a little better.
Building an offline listening library
Give each file a clear name as it saves, since the default name is usually the video title with punctuation stripped out.
Dropping the files into one folder lets your phone's music app treat them as an album, which makes a long series much easier to work through.
What you are allowed to keep
Your own uploads, open licence material, public domain recordings and anything the rights holder has cleared are all fair game.
Commercial music is not. If you want a song permanently, buy it from a store that licenses it to you.
Questions people ask
Is the YouTube MP3 free?
Yes, with no account and no daily cap on this page.
How long does a long video take?
Usually under a minute. Only the audio track is read, so a three hour recording is still a modest file.
Does it work on iPhone?
Yes. Safari saves the MP3 to Files and any music app on the phone can open it from there.
Do you store the audio?
No. It streams from the source to your device and nothing is written to our storage.