How to Record YouTube Audio

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How to Record YouTube Audio

13 July 2021 Jennifer Thatcher Technology Manager of Test Dept.

Last update by James Smith at 8 November 2026

Summary
If you find a well-played music on YouTube, want to save it to local disk for listening at anytime? Here we can accomplish this by recording the YouTube music and save as audio file. Following will show you some methods about how to record YouTube audio.

CONTENTS

Part 1: Free Record With Renee Audio Tools

1. What is Renee Audio Tools?
2. How to Record YouTube with Renee Audio Tools

Part 2: With Voice Recorder in Windows

Part 3: Record with Easy Sound Recorder

Part 4: Summary

Part 1: Free Record With Renee Audio Tools

1. What is 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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2. How to Record YouTube with Renee Audio Tools

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

Part 2: With Voice Recorder in Windows

Windows built-in audio recorder – Windows Voice Recorder could help you as well. This app could help users record sounds from microphone or computer. If you want to record YouTube music, please set the sound source to be computer.

① Search and open Voice Recorder in Windows.

② Click to record sounds while the YouTube video is being played.

how to record music from youtube with windows voice recorder

③After that, edit the record, such as [Trim], [Rename]. Also, you can check the file location.

Part 3: Record with Easy Sound Recorder

Easy Sound Recorder, an small and user friendly audio record tools, can record sounds on Android devices as well as PC. After recording the audio with this tool, we can select the output format from MP3, M3A, WAM and other audio formats to local disk even send to the specific email address.

Users just need to click [Start recording] and [Stop recording] to process the YouTube audio record.

Part 4: Summary

The above parts have introduce 3 simple and popular audio recording tools. Comparing with Windows Voice Reocrder and Easy Sound Recorder, Renee Audio Tools provides more powerful audio recording function as well as many audio editing tools like cutting, merging, format conversion, etc., which can fulfill users’ different needs on audio editing.

Windows Voice Recorder and Easy Sound Recorder provide concise main interface and only provide audio recording function with limited output format. If you want to edit the recorded audio files, Renee Audio Tools would be a better choice.