Latest Youtube to WAV High Quality Audio Latest Tutorials for September 2024

​1. Utilize an online conversion tool (one of the most recommended ways):

YoutubeToWAV：

Open your browser and visit/The official website of the
Find the video you want to convert on the YouTube website and copy the link to that video.
Go back to the web page and paste the copied YouTube video link into the specified input box. Click Convert
Default format for audio tags now Click on the WAV format Download button.
You can download the converted WAV audio files. It's very convenient, no need to install any software and no ads!
2. Use specialized software tools:
4K Video Downloader：

Download and install the 4K Video Downloader software.

Open the YouTube website, find the video you want to convert and copy its video link.
Open 4K Video Downloader software, find the "Paste Link" button in the software interface and click it to paste the copied YouTube video link into it.
In the pop-up download option, select the audio format as WAV (if the software supports this format directly, if not, you can first select other high-quality audio formats such as FLAC, and then convert), and set the save path.
Click the "Download" button, the software will start to download the audio part of the YouTube video and convert it to the format you specified. Wait for the download to finish and you can find the converted WAV audio file in the specified save path.

3. Use of command-line tools (requires some technical foundation)

 

Install FFmpeg: FFmpeg is a powerful multimedia processing tool for audio and video conversion, editing and other operations. You need to download and install FFmpeg first. depending on your operating system, get the installation package from the official FFmpeg website or other reliable download channels and follow the installation wizard. After the installation is complete, add the installation path of FFmpeg to the environment variable of your system, so that you can invoke FFmpeg commands directly from the command line.
Conversion operation: Open a command line window (in Windows you can press Win + R and type "cmd" and enter; in Mac or Linux you can open Terminal). Enter the following command to convert YouTube video to WAV audio, replacing "/watch?v=YourVideoID" with the actual link of the YouTube video you want to convert:
ffmpeg -i "/watch?v=YourVideoID" -vn -acodec pcm_s16le
In this command, the "-i" parameter is followed by the input video link, "-vn" means extract audio only, "-acodec pcm_s16le" specifies the audio encoding format is PCM (which is a common encoding format for WAV audio), and "" is the name and path of the output WAV audio file, you can modify it as needed.