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Extract audio from online video

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Using the youtube-dl command line application you can download videos and directly extract the audio of the video in various formats.

youtube-dl supports a large variety of online video hosts, including:

  • youtube.com
  • 9gag.com
  • crunchyroll.com
  • dailymotion.com
  • southparkstudios.com

Note: Please be sure that you are allowed to download a video before you do that, many of these hosts do not expect that you will be downloading their videos as they do not allow that.

The following command, will download a video, convert it to an mp3 and delete the original video:

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwI-n3sI8ec

If you want to keep the original video, you just add the parameter -k or --keep-video.

The --audio-format parameter accepts other types of audio format outputs, specifically it supports

youtube-dl is a very powerful tool, advice the documentation for some of the great features it supports.

 

Using .tgz files 1

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Create

To create a .tgz file, we used tar with the following parameters -czf:

  • -c or --create will create a new archive.
  • -z– or --gzip or --gunzip or --ungzip will filter the archive through gzip and compress it.
  • -f or --file=ARCHIVE will use archive file or device ARCHIVE. If this option is not given, tar will first examine the environment variable TAPE. If it is set, its value will be used as the archive name. Otherwise, tar will assume the compiled-in default.

Example:


tar -czf $ARCHIVE_FILE_NAME.tgz $PATH_TO_COMPRESS;

Please note that the order of the parameters will not change the result.

Extract

To extract a .tgz or .tar.gz file using tar we used the following parameters -xzf:

  • -x or --extract --get will extract the files from the archive. Arguments are optional. When given, they specify names of the archive members to be extracted.
  • -z– or --gzip or --gunzip or --ungzip will filter the archive through gzip and decompress it.
  • -f or --file=ARCHIVE will use archive file or device ARCHIVE. If this option is not given, tar will first examine the environment variable TAPE. If it is set, its value will be used as the archive name. Otherwise, tar will assume the compiled-in default.

Example:


tar -xzf $ARCHIVE_FILE_NAME.tgz;

ffmpeg: Extract audio from .MKV to .MP3 13

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The following command will find all mkv files that are in the current directory and in all sub-folders and extract the audio to mp3 format.

find . -type f -name "*.mkv" -exec bash -c 'FILE="$1"; ffmpeg -i "${FILE}" -vn -c:a libmp3lame -y "${FILE%.mkv}.mp3";' _ '{}' \;

The filename of the audio file will be the same as the mkv video with the correct extension. The mkv extension will be removed and replaced by the mp3 extension e.g hi.mkv will create a new file named hi.mp3

ffmpeg: Extract audio from .MP4 to .MP3

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The following command will find all mp4 files that are in the current directory and in all sub-folders and extract the audio to mp3 format.

find . -type f -iname "*.mp4" -exec bash -c 'FILE="$1"; ffmpeg -i "${FILE}" -vn -y "${FILE%.mp4}.mp3";' _ '{}' \;

The filename of the audio file will be the same as the mp4 video with the correct extension. The mp4 extension will be removed and replaced by the mp3 extension e.g hi.mp4 will become hi.mp3