new update:
Are you a video lover or a music lover? Are there video files that you want
only the sound of for your mp3 player?
Here is how to do that:
-If you are not running Linux you will need to install virtualbox onto your
machine allocating 1 gb of memory to the Linux virtual machine.
-Download http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php
-Install it into your virtualmachine
-Start Linux mint annd after it starts press "<alt><cntrl>-T".
This opens what is called a "Shell" and in it type

youtube-dl -o <filename>.flv --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 "youtube
url" (with quotes) <return>

The 'o' option names the file.
The "--extract-audio" option does what it says.
The "--audio-format=..." can be best, aac, mp3
If you just want to download the entire video leave out the
"--extract-audio" and "--audio-format..." options.
For more information type "man youtube-dl".

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you a video lover or a music lover? Are there video files that you
> want only the sound of for your mp3 player?
> Here is how to do that:
>
> youtube-dl -o <filename>.flv --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 "youtube
> url" (with quotes)
>
> The 'o' option names the file.
> The "--extract-audio" option does what it says.
> The "--audio-format=..." can be best, aac, mp3
> If you just want to download the entire video leave out the
> "--extract-audio" and "--audio-format..." options.
> For more information see the man page for youtube-dl.
>
>
> Okay PLUG,how do you download it as an mp4 or what other video files can I
> download it as? I think you would do  "-o <filename>.<filetype>" but the
> man page doesn't say anything.
>
> Hmmmm...... You know I think we should perhaps do a tutorial on installing
> linux into a virtual box so that widows users can avail themselves of these
> linux how-to's.
>
> Does anyone have a how-to for installing a virtualbox for Linux or do I
> need to write one up?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>