Anyone know a good YouTube audio downloader that works free on Mac?

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  1. grrarrrgh

    grrarrrgh Kapellmeister

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    Looking to find the tempo of a song that’s only in the YouTube video and figure out if it keeps subtly changing and be able to correct the timing so it can be locked to the actual tempo it’s supposed to be? I will accept if it comes from the “museum”, it’s just a one-off thing and it seems to have inspired me and is pulling me towards my physical modeling plugins again

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    grrarrrgh Kapellmeister

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    Will this require a paid subscription or is that only for the download services/file hosts?
     
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    you are downloading from yt, no need for anything like that, unless the yt video is age restricted, when you need to figure out how the yt login works with JD2
     
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    grrarrrgh Kapellmeister

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    No, this is the only thing… I think I already have an installer lying around so I’m practically almost set up. Just have to get back to my MacBook cause I left it with my love while I’m visiting her, I’ll be back tonight for sure so I will be able to get going… just need a tempo correction tool if there’s one within Logic, Bitwig, Reason or something
     
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    shinjiya Rock Star

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    I think Macs come with Python already, so just try opening the terminal and run pip install yt-dlp.

    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

    The command to get the audio only is yt-dlp link-to-video -f 140

    This will get you the best m4a available.
     
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    mr.personality Platinum Record

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    Maybe I'm not understanding what you want to do. There's lots of free online youtube downloaders to use. You can usually just get the audio alone. I also have an app, MediaHuman, when I want to download just the music from vids. Of course these will be whatever quality kbps it is, but adequate enough. Don't know how you can download the premium subscription high quality audio for free though. Maybe there is

    Regardless, like the above poster says, bring the audio into your daw and have it do what you're looking to do.
     
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