Ways to download music from YouTube
Unfortunately, you cannot download a video for your local video library directly from the YouTube website: it is unprofitable for Google, the owner of a video hosting company, to provide web functionality for downloading videos because it is necessary that as many users as possible are online watching ads.
However, demand creates supply. Many third-party software tools have been developed to download YouTube videos. Let’s have a look at some of them.
Special browser extensions
Extensions for browsers include plugins and add-ons are an additional mini-functionality built into the browser for a specific purpose. With the help of extensions, the functionality of the browser can be supplemented, including by installing a YouTube file downloader into it.
The browser extensions considered below and most of their counterparts add an additional “Download” button to the YouTube video hosting interface next to each video. This is very convenient since the download can be carried out instantly, without interrupting the web surfing on YouTube. Let’s consider the most popular of these extensions.
- YouTube Downloader is an extension for the Opera browser that allows you to download videos from YouTube with a choice of format and quality.
- YouTube tool is a similar extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- But with the Google Chrome browser, things are a little more complicated. Since Google is interested in increasing advertising revenue through online visitors to its resource, it is unprofitable for it to promote extensions that copy video content to users’ local drives. So, in the official Google Chrome store for YouTube, you can easily find extensions that improve the functionality or interface of online video hosting but do not provide for the video download function. So extensions have to be installed bypassing the Google Chrome store. Chrome YouTube Downloader is one such plug-in for the Chrome browser.
The only plus of browser extensions is that you do not need to install any additional programs and delve into their settings. And this is the only plus, since browser extensions tend to work unstable, their functionality is usually limited.
If you download YouTube videos often enough, it is better to take a closer look at one of the desktop programs below.
Desktop programs for video downloading
GetVideo
It’s quite a good service that makes it possible to download videos easily. It is enough to insert the link to the content you wish to be downloaded, click the button responsible for it, and just below there will be 3 links for downloading videos in different qualities – maximum, HD (1280×720) and the lowest (640×360).
Freemake Video Downloader program
Freemake Video Downloader is a free program for a personal computer and, according to the assurances of the developers, it is possible to get files from more than ten thousand different Internet resources, including YouTube and more.
Pros of Freemake Video Downloader are simplicity, intuitive interface, lightness, built-in converter with the ability to convert video to audio files, the ability to download video collections in whole or selectively from the entire YouTube channel.
Free YouTube Download
This program is a free one. It is quite similar to the previous one, with slightly advanced functionality and slightly more settings, but it is possible to download content from YouTube exclusively. It’s impossible to utilize this tool with any other services.
If you want to download content with the help of this too, stick to the following sequence of actions. First of all, you need to copy a link to a video you are interested in. After this, go to the program and insert the link into a corresponding field. You will also be asked to select the format and quality you need. And, finally, you can choose either you want to download it only or to additionally convert it to another format. As you can see, it is pretty simple and does not require additional knowledge.
Conclusion
Nowadays, many people have an active lifestyle, so they want to have everything they like easily accessible. This applies to favorite music too. With the help of a good YouTube playlist downloader, it is really easy to get all the songs downloaded quickly and easily. Moreover, some services make it possible to convert videos to MP3, which is also a great idea if you need only audio.