Hi all.

I'm looking for an easy solution to extract the audio from FLV files so that I can use them in iTunes or edit sounds for use in my own compositions.

I've tried http://flv2mp3.com/ , but when I import the files into iTunes, it says they are much longer than they actually are. One example is this file http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnZ6qhWZats (a Prodigy vs White Stripes mashup). Even though the file is under 5 minutes long, iTunes insists it's nearly 40 minutes long. The really weird thing is that the file (a) plays for it's designated time and (b) when I play it in Quicktime player it is showing the actual song length of about 4 min 40 sec.

I even tried downloading the FLV file using a free online convertor, but the MP3 file that the site spits out still is 'pretending' to be longer than it is in iTunes.

VisualHub is great, but it only converts to video formats. I tried a program called Seatubes (which purportedly creates AAC & MP3 files) but I can't get it to actually do anything.

GRRRRR! Surely someone here needs just the audio from youtube files...any help would be great (even if it's just in making iTunes display the correct file length).

Thanks in advance.

It's probably a bit long winded, but I'd use ffmpeg, with the -vn switch to export to audio only.

If you've got ffmpeg installed, use this syntax to create an MP3: -i /path/to/file.flv -vn -acodec mp3 -ab 96k /path/to/output.mp3

That will strip the video away, and encode the audio to a 96kb/sec MP3.

Or just use the GUI: http://www.ffmpegX.com/