I cannot even count the number of times I have searched for a song on youtube before buying or just browsed and found an interesting arrangement of a favorite song. Recently I was assisting an italian teacher with some songs she was teaching h
er grade school students. They were italian songs, some popular ones that I had heard before and some which I did not have any previous knowledge of. I found myself browsing youtube so I could hear the songs she wanted to work on before we met for the first time (there was no sheet music) and was shocked when I discovered Karaoke versions of even the most obscure of the songs. I had downloaded some karaoke versions of the songs on itunes as she also would be needing an accompaniment cd for the kids to sing with at their concert. She was still learning some of the music herself however and wanted to be comfortable teaching the kids. I pulled up one of the youtube karaoke versions so that she could follow along but get used to performing without the original singers, and no surprise... She loved it! Before I knew it she was requesting the karaoke version of the other songs too so that her kids could work with those as well. Closer to the concert we realized she preferred some of the youtube versions of the accompaniment over the itunes ones I had found earlier and I was faced with a problem. How could I get these youtube versions into an mp3 form so that I could edit the music down and put it on the accompaniment cd with the rest of the songs. 
I was browsing software websites when I discovered one of my absolute favorite must haves, the free youtube to mp3 software.
This is one of the most user friendly pieces of software I have ever worked with. You simply find the youtube video you want to convert and copy the url. You paste it into the program and press the button to download it. Voila! Your favorite youtube videos are now audio files which can go directly into your itunes or which you can edit in a seperate software, such as audicity.
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