How to Rip YouTube Audio and Save to Local Disk

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How to Rip YouTube Audio and Save to Local Disk

6 July 2021 Ashley S. Miller Specialist of Customer Service Dept.

Last update by William Davis at 8 November 2026

Summary
Being one of the popular video sharing social media, YouTube has become an important role in our daily life. Many users prefer to watch music videos and movie on YouTube. However, we may not have so many time to enjoy the whole video. Here, we can rip the YouTube audio and save it to local disk which can be listened at any time. Or you want to make the audio to be the background of your video. Follow us to get the audio out of the YouTube video.

CONTENTS

Part 1: How to Rip YouTube Audio from YouTube

1. With Renee Audio Tools
2. With MP3 Convert
3. Ontiva

Part 2: Summary

Part 1: How to Rip YouTube Audio from YouTube

1. With Renee Audio Tools

Renee Audio Tools is the audio software that can record computer sounds, edit audio files and convert formats. The software can collect sounds from the computer and the microphone. The editing functions include cutting audios, setting fade-in/out effects, adjusting the playback speed and volume, and changing voice effects. What’s more, users can use the application to merge audio files into one, add the ID3 tags, transfer music to iTunes, and burn music to CD/DVD.

After editing the audio, you can convert the audio to any format you want like MP3, MP2, M4A, WMA, AAC, AC3, FLAC, WAV, AMR, OGG, APE, MKA, etc..

Professional Audio Editor – Renee Audio Tools

CutterArbitrarily cut and clip audios in MP3, ACC, FLAC and APE formats. Many effects, such as fade in/out, speed adjustment, music mixing and volume adjustment, are available.

ConverterConvert music files between all audio formats, including MP3, M4A, ACC, OGG, AAC, FLAC and the others. It can also convert the video format into MP3.

RecorderRecord computer sounds from streaming media and microphone at the same time and output into multiple audio formats.

JoinerMerge music files into one regardless the original file formats. The output format and quality can be set, too.

CD BurnerBurn multiple music files into CD, DVD and also make APE or BIN image file.

Compatible with: Windows 11 / 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP (32bit/64bit)

CutterArbitrarily cut and clip audios in diffrent formats. Many effects, such as fade in/out, speed adjustment, music mixing, are available.

ConverterConvert music files between all audio formats, including MP3, M4A, ACC, OGG, AAC, FLAC and the others. It can also convert the video format into MP3.

RecorderRecord computer sounds from streaming media and microphone at the same time and output into multiple audio formats.

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How to use Renee Audio Tools to rip audio from YouTube video?

Here are detailed steps:

Step 1: Download and install Renee Audio Tools. Launch Renee Audio Tools and click [Recorder] function.

Functions of Renee Audio Tools:

Recorder: Collect sounds from computer and microphone.

Cutter: Shorten the time length, adjust the playback speed, voice and volume.

Merger: Combine several files into one.

Converter: Convert between audio formats. Also, adjust the playback speed, change voice and mix sounds.

Video to MP3: Convert video to MP3, WAV, AAC and M4A.

ID3 editor: Fill in the information of the audio file, such as artiest, song name, album name, publish year and music genres.

Transfer to iTunes: Place audio files into iTunes.

CD ripper: Separate music from CD and save as audio files in the computer.

CD burner: Copy audio files in the computer and save in CD.

Step 2: Select [Computer sounds] and then please set the output format and saving location for the recorded file. Then please open the target video in YouTube. Please click [Record] before you play the video in YouTube.

use renee audio tools to record computer sounds

Step 3: After the video is finished, please click [Stop] button and the recorded audio will be saved in the set position.

stop recording sounds in renee audio tools

2. With MP3 Convert

MP3 CONVERT, a free online YouTube to local audio converter, can free users from downloading the software and extract the audio from YouTube directly. However, it just supports saving audios from YouTube video within 2 hours.

Extracting audio from YouTube video with MP3 Convert is convenience. Here we go:

Go to https://mp3-convert.org/ and then paste the link of the YouTube video to the related search box. Then click [Convert] to process the audio convert. The video quality, file size and network status will affect the consuming time.

3. Ontiva

Ontiva, a free and overall online converter, supports to convert YouTube video to MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, etc. Following will introduce how to save audios in YouTube to local disk:

Go to https://ontiva.com/en/youtube-to-mp3-converter and then paste the link of the YouTube video to the search bar of the tool. Then click [Start Now] on the right side to process the conversion. Then click [Download] to save the converted audio to local disk.

Part 2: Summary

The above parts have introduce 3 different methods to rip audios from YouTube video to local disk. Different from Renee Audio Tools, MP3 Convert and Ontiva are online tools. Users ripping music from YouTube video with them is easy but could get failed because of the poor network status or other reasons. Also, parts of these online service will get some limitations on the conversion.

Ripping audio from YouTube will be stable and free from any limitation on file size. Besides, it also provides many other audio edit tools which can help you edit the audio and convert the audio to other formats after ripping and saving audio from YouTube.