Downloading a youtube video and extracting only the audio

[Richard Mancusi]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Chris Lemire <good_bye300 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I succesfully downloaded a youtube video in .flv
>  format after lots of googling. However following
>  directions to extract the audio has not worked
>  for me with no obvious reasons to me why. I checked
>  the video I download with VLC. It does have
>  audio.

Make sure you have installed ffmpeg and then read the man page.
Depending on your requirements, the command will look
something like this:
ffmpeg -i filename.flv -ab 192 -ar 44100 filename.mp3

-rich