Mini youtube to mp3 howto.


1) First download from youtube using youtube-dl http://youtube-dl.org/

	$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/...

Or use clive http://clive.sourceforge.net/

	$ clive http://www.youtube.com/...

Or use cclive http://cclive.sourceforge.net/

	$ cclive http://www.youtube.com/...


2) Then convert from .flv to .wav format using FFmpeg http://www.ffmpeg.org/

	$ ffmpeg -i file.flv file.wav


3) And lastly convert to .mp3 using LAME http://lame.sourceforge.net/

	$ lame file.wav


To batch convert from mp3 to wav:

	$ for i in *.mp3; do mpg123 --rate 44100 --stereo --buffer 3072 --resync -w "`basename "$i" .mp3`".wav "$i"; done

To batch convert from flv to mp3:

	$ ls *.flv|xargs -I {}  ffmpeg -i {} -ar 44100 -ab 160k -ac 2 {}.mp3