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How do I extract audio from a youtube video i.e. how do I convert downloaded youtube video (.flv) to a .mp3 file?

Now that you have the youtube video downloaded into your system, you might want to extract the audio from it. If you don't know how to download a youtube video, check my previous post on 'how to download youtube videos'. Assuming you have downloaded the video, here are the steps to extract the audio from it.

1. Go to Free Studio Manager website. Choose any of the listed softwares to download. Yes, for now, download any of them as marked on the snapshot below.
2. On the next page, click the 'Download now' button.
3. Save the file and install it.
4. Once installed, open the Free Studio Manager from your start menu. Start-> All Programs -> DVDVideoSoft -> Free Studio Manager
5. It opens the studio manager with which you can use several softwares. For today's purpose, click on the 'YouTube' tab as shown in the red circle below. Then in the list, click on 'Extract audio from YouTube video' as in the blue circle.
6. The softwares which you don't have are in regular text whereas those you have are in bold. If you don't have the software installed already, it will ask for download and install. Go ahead and install the software.
7. Once installed, the name will appear in bold. Click it again. Choose 'continue' to run the software. It opens a dialouge box where you specify your youtube .flv file as input and the .mp3 file as output. You can choose the quality of the output file also. The default value of 'optimal quality' works pretty good.

... So there you have your mp3 file extracted from the youtube video.

Notes -
1> As you have noticed already, the free studio manager has a bunch of different softwares which you might wanna use.
2> For the mp3 extraction, you can also specify the url of the youtube video. However it might be slow and sometimes there are problems with the conversion.