Debian, Ubuntu et al.

This guide will show you how to easily convert YouTube Videos to MP3 on Ubuntu or Debian. youtube-dl   is a Linux command-line tool for downloading/converting videos. The tool supports YouTube and many other websites such as BBC. For Ubuntu systems (or systems that are based on it such as Linux Mint) sudo apt-get install youtube-dl For Debian sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2014.03.25.1/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl Also, make sure ffmpeg is installed sudo apt-get install ffmpeg Before you do anything, update to the latest version of youtube-dl sudo youtube-dl -U Once it is installed use the following command to convert YouTube videos to mp3 youtube-dl --extract-audio  --audio-format mp3  <youtube-link> If you want  an overview of all the different options youtube-dl --help Supported sites as of March, 2014 1up.com 220.ro 3sat 4tube 56.com 5min 8tracks 9gag AcademicEarth:Course AddAnime Af