It is always a pleasure to listen to your favourite sound track on YouTube. Be it a recent release or a retro music, YouTube provides wonderful opportunity to people access their favourite music anytime, anywhere. But for that, you must need to have active internet connection. But what if you don’t have? The best way to avoid such situation is to download the music from YouTube. Let’s see how you can do this on your Android device.
Please note that it is illegal to download copyrighted content from YouTube so it is extremely necessary to abide by the YouTube’s Terms of Service.
Web-Based Options
- FLVTO
This is a great way to download music from YouTube without exposing your Android device to potentially hazardous malware APK files. You just need to visit the website without having any kind of Adblocker installed.
Just, copy the he YouTube link which you would wish to download as Mp3 file and paste it into the given field. Tap on “Convert to” without setting other options available. Depending on the internet speed and server load, it may take some time to download. Click on “Download” to begin downloading.
- Online Video Converter
Another popular and risk-free way to download YouTube music is using Online Video Converter. Here you can choose to take control more of the conversion from video to music.
OnlineVideoConverter allows users manually tweak the Audio quality for conversion (such as 192 kbps, 256 kbps etc). Users can choose from various audio formats to convert the video such as .aac, .ogg, .wma, .wav, .m4a, .flac.
Moreover, users can choose to set the duration for the required music files to be converted from YouTube.
Simply, type in the YouTube URL and click on “Start”. Once the conversion is done, click on “Download” or scan the QR Code to start downloading the music file.
Android Apps
- TubeMate
As Google doesn’t allow content to be downloaded from YouTube, you won’t get TubeMate on Play Store. But the truth is that it is one of the most widely used YouTube downloader available for download. Let’s see how you can use it on your Android device.
Step #1: Once you finish downloading the APK file, you need to activate installation from unknown sources. For that simply go through – Settings->Security->Unknown Sources and then check the option to allow the installation of the APK file you had downloaded.
Step #2: Install the app from the APK file and then open the application.
Step #3: Agree to the terms to begin.
Step #4: Search the particular YouTube video and then click on the green arrow button to get the download options.
Step #5: From the available options, click on either “Audio (Mp3)” or “Audio (M41, AAC)” to start downloading the music file.
- Videoder
Another popular Android app for YouTube downloading is Videoder. It is high on reliability as users can get the APK file from its official website or APKMirror.
Step #1: Before installing the app from the APK file, make sure to enable installation from unknown sources by navigating through the settings.
Step #2: Open the app and search for the desired video. Choose the desired video.
Step #3: Contrary to YouTube, the video won’t start playing automatically. But, it would get several download links for that particular video. Scroll down to see “Audio Download Links”
Step #4: Select the desired file and then choose the download location. In addition, you can also fast-track the download by manually setting the number of threads. Now, click on “Start Download” to get started.
