How-to guide
How to extract audio from a YouTube video
YouTube is the world's largest video library and one of the most common reasons people need a video-to-audio converter. VideoSplit does not fetch from YouTube directly — you get the file yourself, then we turn it into audio without uploading it anywhere.
Downloading copyrighted YouTube content beyond personal use can violate YouTube's Terms of Service and copyright law in your jurisdiction. Use this workflow for personal study, accessibility, offline listening of content you own, or Creative Commons videos.
Step-by-step
- Download the YouTube video. Use a yt-dlp-based tool (yt-dlp on the command line, or a GUI wrapper). Save as MP4 or WEBM — either works.
- Open VideoSplit.io. No signup, nothing to install.
- Drop the downloaded video onto the page. Drag and drop. Because everything runs in your browser, the file never leaves your machine.
- Pick WAV for editing or MP3 for listening. WAV keeps the source at its native 48 kHz. MP3 at 320 kbps is a small, portable file.
- Download. Saves to your Downloads folder with the YouTube video's title.
Tips for better results
- yt-dlp has a --extract-audio flag that can do the audio extraction server-side — but using VideoSplit keeps the original video in hand in case you need it later.
- YouTube's native Opus-in-WebM is already very efficient; a WAV export from a 128 kbps Opus source will not sound better than the source, just less compressed.
- For music creators, DO NOT republish extracted audio without clearing the underlying copyright.
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