Video (youtube, etc..) downloader and to MP3 converter

[Syrinx]

2. I used to use a script I found online to download youtube videos

But it seemed like Youtube was continually tweaking this and that, which would thus continually break the script.

The easiest way to save youtube videos, in my opinion, is just to play them normally, then fish them out of your browser cache.

I use Firefox as my default browser and finding stuff in the Firefox browser cache was real easy until version 4, I think, when they mucked it up.

It's still easy if you install the new version of the cacheviewer add-on. I think it's called "cacheviewer continued," or something like that.

Extracting audio or converting to audio only files... I do that with mplayer. I thought mplayer was a Linux/POSIX only program, but I just checked, and it says it's available for Windows (and even DOS!), too. It's been awhile since I did any conversions like that, but when I did them, it involved using the command line, though there are probably graphical front-ends that would make it easier.

Or maybe you could just play the video and run Windows Sound Recorder, or whatever it's called, at the same time.

Just spit-balling here... I haven't used Windows in a while.