How to Convert YouTube Videos into Songs for iTunes
By Alexander Poirier
YouTube is a video uploading and streaming website that lets you upload your videos and view videos uploaded by other users. A number of websites allow you to capture the audio from a YouTube video and save the audio onto the computer's hard drive. After this audio is saved, you can then add the audio to your iTunes library. If you want to convert a YouTube video into an iTunes song, you can do so in a few simple steps.
Open the computer's Web browser and navigate to the YouTube page for the video whose audio you want to download. Highlight the YouTube video's URL, right-click on the highlighted URL and click "Copy" from the context menu that appears.
Open a new Web browser window and navigate to a website that allows you to download the audio from YouTube videos. ListenToYouTube, VidToMP3 and Get Audio From Video.com are a few of the websites that provide this service.
Right-click on the URL entry field and click "Paste" from the context menu. Click the "Download" button to download the YouTube video's audio track onto the computer's hard drive.
Double-click the iTunes application icon to launch the application. Click the "File" tab and select the "Add to Library" option from the "File" menu.
Locate the audio file you downloaded in Step 3, highlight it and click the "Choose" button to add the audio file to your iTunes library. The YouTube audio file can now be played in iTunes like a normal song file.
Warnings
- Do not use this process to downloaded copyrighted material from YouTube.
Writer Bio
Alexander Poirier began writing professionally in 2005. He worked as the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "Calliope," garnering the magazine two APEX Awards for excellence in publication. Poirer graduated from the University of the Pacific with a Bachelor of Arts in English.