How to convert Videos from YouTube to MP3 for free?

Do you love listening to YouTube the songs of your favorite artists? You are not the only one! Although there are specialized music streaming platforms, the truth is that millions of users continue to opt for YouTube to enjoy their favorite music. Even if that implies keeping the mobile screen on for hours!

However, there is no reason to sacrifice the battery of your phone. And no, we are not here to sell any subscription to Spotify. There is a very simple solution that simply consists of converting YouTube video to MP3 to listen to music without connection, on any device ... and, yes, with the mobile screen off.

Did you know that a video can be converted to MP3 on YouTube?

Maybe the news caught you by surprise ... or maybe you are too young to be familiar with the MP3 format. Before the explosion of streaming platforms, most people listened to music in this format with portable MP3 players. They were not the most convenient devices in the world, but now that your mobile cannot be missing in your pocket you have it very easy to listen to your music without connection thanks to this format.

Techniques for MP3 video into YouTube

Now, YouTube videos are not in MP3 format by default. If you want to save YouTube music on your device to listen to it without connection, you will need a Premium YouTube account - which you surely don't want to pay - or a video converter to MP3 that allows you to save your videos in this popular sound format.

Pay for YouTube Premium

We will start with the first option: to pay for YouTube Premium. On paper, it is the simplest: you take the credit card, you subscribe, and voila. For only € 13.99 you can save your favorite songs in the YouTube app to listen to them without connection, but there are several inconveniences if you opt for this.

-They are € 167.88 a year. Have you done the calculations? An individual Youtube Premium account costs you more than € 150 annually, more or less what you would pay for Spotify. Very few people are worth doing this disbursement.

-Not all videos can be downloaded. YouTube does not allow you to download all the videos indistinctly. Creators can choose to leave their videos outside the YouTube Premium download option.

-The music downloaded does not work outside the app. What if you feel like listening to YouTube in a music team or a portable MP3 player? With YouTube Premium you can't do that, so you must settle for having the open YouTube app.

Use Wondershare Uniconverter

Luckily, there are alternatives that are much better and that are within your reach for less than you think. With a file converter like Wondershare Uniconverter you can simply convert the YouTube videos to the MP3 format to download the music you like the most - or the audiobooks, the podcasts ... - directly to your device.

-You can download any video. The Wondershare Uniconverter MP3 conversion option is applied to any YouTube video, regardless of its availability for download on the platform itself.

-You allows you to choose the sound quality. In addition to saving your favorite videos in MP3 format, Uniconverter allows you to choose parameters such as 'bitrate' to determine the quality of the final file.

-The MP3 can be heard anywhere. Rare is the device that does not allow you to listen to MP3 files, so you can take the music where you want to listen to it without connection and your way.

What is the conversion of YouTube videos to MP3?

When you see all the uses that can be given to this format, you will understand why it is so convenient to convert video to MP3. So far we have focused especially on one: the possibility of listening to music without connection. But there are many others that should be considered, especially if you want to be a professional influencer.

Listen to music without connection

Okay, listening to the music without connection is great! Your songs are not interrupted with annoying ads or sound errors due to excessive traffic or network problems. In addition, YouTube does not have equalizer, but virtually any MP3 player will allow you to adjust the sound values ​​so that your music sounds just as you like.

Listen to audiobooks

The same can be said of the audiobooks, which allow us to relax listening to the stories that we like the most, but that on YouTube they usually spoil with very annoying ads in the most inopportune moments. Simply download them in MP3 format and forget about interruptions.

Listen podcasts

Ah, and the podcasts! Listening to the conversations of your most popular influencers is a delight, but it is even more if you do when you go on a trip. A long flight from the hand of your favorite podcasters becomes much more bearable, so you will download a few episodes in MP3 before getting on the plane.

Edit videos

Finally, the conversion of videos to MP3 is an almost routine task for all types of multimedia professionals that continually need to incorporate certain songs or sound effects into their professional projects. Always within the legal framework, of course, for example by downloading rights free of rights or making critical use of the content.

The advantages of the MP3 format to convert YouTube videos

The choice of MP3 format for all these uses is not accidental. This is one of the ideal file types to listen to music thanks to its compression capacity maintaining sound quality. Leave the WAV for film editors, and embrace all the advantages that MP3 has for you:

-Extraordinary compression capacity. A high quality song in MP3 format can occupy between 5 MB and 10 MB on your device. If you are not familiar with these units, it is very little space! You will be able to save thousands of MP3 in virtually any mobile and computer worth its salt.

-Excellent sound quality. Okay, there are formats with higher quality such as Flac, but they simply occupy too much space. MP3 are popular because they allow the quality of almost intact music to preserve, reducing the size of the file to its minimum expression.

-Universal compatibility. It will be very difficult for you to find a mobile or a computer that cannot play an MP3 file. It is one of the most universal file formats in the multimedia field, and, together with the MP4, is part of a very select group of practically universal formats.

How to save YouTube sound with YouTube Premium?

Ok, now you are an expert in the MP3 format at an encyclopedic level. But how does all this apply to save the sound of YouTube videos? Well, as we said above, you essentially have two ways to do this: paying for YouTube Premium, or using an external converter. Let's show you first how to do it from YouTube:

1.-ABRE YOUTUBE, and make sure you have an active premium account.

2.-Go to the video you want to save on your device.

3.-If it is available, press the 'download' button that you will see in the video.

And nothing else! With this you will have downloaded the video to listen to it later from the YouTube app itself, but remember that you will not only have downloaded the sound, but also the image. And, of course, you can only reproduce it from the YouTube itself.

How to convert a YouTube video to MP3 with Uniconverter?

And the other option? This is the favorite of the 'pros'. Simply go by converting the video to MP3 using software like Wondershare Uniconverter. To do this you will have to have the application installed on your computer and, when it is already installed, it will be enough for you to follow these simple steps:

1.-ABRE WONDERSHARE UNICONVERTER.

2.-Pulsa on the 'downloader' option in the menu on the left.

3.-Page the URL address of the YouTube video you want to download.

4.-Ellige MP3 as the output format, and press the 'Download' button.

Nothing easier! With this you will have saved the sound of the YouTube video in MP3 format, and it is best that you can now reproduce it with any other application or copy it to any other device.

Equipate with a first level file converter

Depending in excess of an Internet connection is not the best idea, especially if you love to enjoy your music or your favorite audiobooks, whatever happens. With a multimedia file converter like Wondershare Uniconverter you will easily convert the YouTube videos to the MP3 format to save the sound and listen to it wherever you go, even if you don't have an Internet connection with you.

All you have to do is copy the video of the video you want to download, paste it into the 'downloader' of Uniconverter, choose the MP3 output format. In this way you can create a real collection of music, audiobooks or podcasts that will accompany you everywhere or that you can use in your multimedia projects as you need it. With Uniconverter, convert Videos from YouTube to MP3 is easier than ever!