December 12, 2022

Download mp3 audio track only (no video) from YouTube with youtube-dl

Edit 2023: Youtube-dl is broken as of early 2023.

Run:

$ youtube-dl -x --audio-format "mp3" <URL>

For more details, run:

$ man youtube-dl

To download youtube-dl on GNU/Linux, run:

$ sudo apt install youtube-dl

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