The act of transferring video or audio content material from the YouTube platform to Apple’s iTunes (now Apple Music on macOS Catalina and later) ecosystem includes extracting the audio portion of a YouTube video and saving it in a format suitable with iTunes. This course of generally ends in an MP3 or AAC file that may then be imported and managed inside the Apple utility. For instance, a consumer would possibly select to amass a tune solely out there on YouTube for offline listening by way of iTunes.
The worth in enabling the switch described above lies in offering customers with higher management over their audio content material. It permits for offline entry to audio that may in any other case solely be out there by way of YouTube’s streaming service, circumventing potential knowledge limitations or unreliable web connections. Traditionally, this performance crammed a niche in available digital music catalogs, providing another route to acquire desired tracks or spoken-word content material.
