How to Cut Audio from a YouTube Video with Ease

Sometimes after watching a wonderful cover music video on YouTube, you may think about saving a part of the audio track for personal use, such as use it as the background music of your new vlog or your presentations. Knowing how to cut audio from a YouTube video directly online and offline will release you from endless troubles. If you are looking for tutorials, then you’ve come to the right place. The following content will focus on how to do that easily and effectively using two handy and lightweight YouTube cutters.

Part 1. Joyoshare Media Cutter

Part 2. HashCut

Part 1. How to Cut Audio from YouTube Video – Joyoshare Media Cutter

Joyoshare Media Cutter for Windows and Mac is recognized as one of the most powerful video and audio cutting tools. Professional as it is, it is very easy-to-use. With its beautiful and beginner-friendly user interface, you will be able to trim, cut, and split your large files without damaging any quality at 60X faster speed than any other competitors. It supports various formats, including MP3, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WMA, MKV, FLV, MOV, and more.

This desktop program also offers additional features to you so that you can edit and customize your videos and audios, such as by inserting an image watermark, adding subtitles, applying special effects, cropping and rotating video, etc. Joyoshare Media Cutter provides you four available ways in total to cut the audio from your YouTube video precisely and accurately. You can rest assured that you will get a perfect audio clip easily and quickly.

Key features:

Extract and cut audio from a video

Extra advanced features to personalize videos

Support over 150 audio and video formats

Merge multiple clips from the same source into one file

Cut videos and audios losslessly at 60X super-fast speed

Step 1: Add a YouTube Video to the Program

After downloading Joyoshare Media Cutter, you are able to install and launch it on your computer. After that, press the “Open” button below the time handle to browse and add your YouTube video to the program, or alternatively, drag and drop it to the load area directly.

Step 2: Select a Mode to Cut and the Output Format

Once your YouTube video has been detected successfully by the program, you can press the “Format” button on the right side of the screen to choose a specific cutting mode and your wanted output format. The high-speed mode enables you to cut videos and audios losslessly, and the encoding mode will allow you to customize your files and help you save the changes you make.

Step 3: Begin to Cut Audio from YouTube Video

You are able to set the start/end time, drag the trim markers or use “Set Segment Start Time/Set Segment End Time” to define your cutting segment. A number of editing features are available as well by pressing the “Edit” icon. And finally, you are capable of pressing the “Start” button to export your YouTube audio easily and quickly.

Part 2. Cut Audio from YouTube Video Online – YouTube Cutter

Many online YouTube cutters allow you to cut a YouTube video and then export as an audio file. Most importantly, they support URL, which release you from downloading a YouTube video before cutting its audio. The YouTube Cutter we are going to introduce is one of them. It will bring you great convenience to cut audio from your favorite YouTube video.

Step 1: Open the online YouTube cutter and paste the URL of your wanted YouTube video into the box, and then press the “Start Cutter” button to move to the next step;

Step 2: Utilize the trim markers to set a duration by using the “Start time” and “End time” button, or alternatively, you can directly enter the specific time into the temporal interval;

Step 3: Choose an audio format from the dropdown list of “Filetype” and finally press the “Cut Video” to output your audio.