Speichere YouTube-Audio als unkomprimierte WAV-Datei zum Bearbeiten, Samplen und Produzieren. Kostenlos, ohne Konto, nichts zu installieren.
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Copy the video address from YouTube in your browser, or use Share → Copy link in the YouTube app. Any public video, Short or YouTube Music track works, up to four hours long.
Paste the link into the box above. After about two seconds you will see the title, the duration and the list of audio formats, including WAV with its estimated size. A ten-minute video comes to about 100 MB.
Click Download next to WAV. The best available audio stream is decoded to 16-bit PCM with ffmpeg on our servers while a progress bar keeps you informed. Decoding is quick; the download itself takes longer than an MP3 because the file is larger.
Your browser saves a standard WAV named after the video. Drag it into Audacity, your video editor, your DAW or your DJ library, where it loads at once with no conversion step.
The output is standard 16-bit PCM WAV, the format every editor, DAW and DJ app reads natively. Nothing is normalized, trimmed or watermarked; you get the decoded audio and nothing else.
Cut, loop, time-stretch and layer without a decode step, and export without stacking a second lossy encode on top of YouTube's. Suited to samples, sound design, voice-over pulls and video soundtracks.
We say it plainly: WAV cannot improve on YouTube's lossy audio. What you get is a bit-exact decode of the best stream YouTube offers, which is exactly what editing software needs, no more and no less.
If WAV is too big, FLAC gives you the same lossless audio at about half the size. M4A saves the original AAC untouched, and MP3 at 320 or 128 kbps is there for everyday listening.
Nothing to install on Windows, Mac or Linux, and the same page works in Safari on iPhone and Chrome on Android. Long recordings are fine, up to four hours per video.
Converted files are deleted from our servers automatically after 30 minutes, and the links you paste are not kept beyond short-lived operational logs. No account is ever required.
Y-Download converts YouTube to WAV in your browser. Paste a link, pick WAV from the audio options, and shortly afterwards you have an uncompressed 16-bit PCM file that opens directly in Audacity, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Serato and rekordbox. There is no plugin to add, no desktop converter to install and no account to create. Regular videos, Shorts, YouTube Music tracks and public playlists are all supported, and the page works the same way on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android.
WAV is the format audio software understands best. Because the samples are stored without compression, an editor can cut, stretch, pitch-shift and mix them without decoding anything first, and there is no second lossy encode when you export your project. That is the real reason to choose WAV over MP3: not because it sounds better than the source, but because it stays exactly as good through every edit. The trade-off is size, roughly 10 MB per minute compared with about 2.4 MB per minute for a 320 kbps MP3.
A word of honesty that most converters skip: YouTube stores audio as lossy AAC or Opus at around 128–160 kbps, and a WAV made from it contains precisely that audio, decoded and written out uncompressed. It cannot recover detail YouTube already removed. If you only want to listen, the MP3 or M4A options give you a far smaller file with sound you will not be able to tell apart. If the audio is headed for a timeline, a sampler or a DJ deck, WAV is the right pick, and FLAC delivers the same lossless result in roughly half the space.
16-bit PCM audio with no compression at all. Universally supported by editing and DJ software, instant to open and ideal as a working copy. A three-minute song is about 30 MB; a one-hour recording is about 600 MB.
FLAC holds exactly the same decoded audio as WAV but compresses it without loss, typically to half or two thirds of the size. Choose it for archiving or when your software reads FLAC natively; converting it to WAV later loses nothing.
YouTube's own AAC audio saved as is. This is the truest copy of the source and the smallest file, but it is lossy, and some editors decode it on import. A good choice for listening or for keeping the exact original.
If the audio is only ever going to be played, MP3 at 320 kbps sounds the same as the WAV to the vast majority of listeners and takes a quarter of the space. It also arrives with title, artist and cover art embedded.
Yes. WAV conversion is free and unlimited, like every other format on Y-Download. There is no account, no queue and no paid tier that unlocks larger files; long videos simply take a little longer to prepare.
Not in any way you can hear. YouTube delivers audio as lossy AAC or Opus at around 128–160 kbps. A WAV made from it is a perfect decode of that stream, and a 320 kbps MP3 made from it is a near-perfect one. WAV only wins when you go on to edit or re-encode the audio, because it avoids adding a second generation of loss.
Yes. The file is a standard 16-bit PCM WAV, the native working format of practically every editor, DAW and DJ program, including Audacity, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Reaper, Serato and rekordbox. Drag it in and it loads without conversion.
About 10 MB per minute. A three-minute song is around 30 MB, a 20-minute interview around 200 MB and a one-hour set around 600 MB. The estimate shown next to the WAV button is calculated from the video's duration before you download. If that is too much, FLAC holds the same audio in roughly half the space.
Both are lossless and contain identical audio. Choose WAV when you want the simplest possible file for editing or DJ software; choose FLAC when you want to archive many tracks or send them over the internet, because it is smaller and the format supports tags. Converting FLAC to WAV later loses nothing.
Yes, up to four hours per video. Long conversions take longer, and the WAV grows quickly: a two-hour set is about 1.2 GB and a four-hour recording about 2.5 GB, so make sure you have the disk space and a stable connection. Live streams can be converted once they have finished and appear as a normal video.
Yes, in any modern browser. Keep in mind that WAV files are large, so on a phone with limited storage it can be smarter to download M4A or MP3 there and convert to WAV on the computer where you edit. On Android you can install Y-Download as an app and share videos to it from YouTube.
It is legal to download audio you created, audio released under a permissive license such as Creative Commons, or audio whose rights holder has given you permission, for example a sample pack a producer shared for remixing. Extracting copyrighted music without permission violates YouTube's terms and may violate copyright law. You are responsible for what you convert and how you use it.