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Import from YouTube (local yt-dlp)

Paste a link you have the right to use. yt-dlp runs locally. The MP3 opens in the editor.

File → Import from YouTube. The download is not our server — it is your machine, your folder, your responsibility for the URL.

After the MP3 lands, trim intros, match LUFS, convert to M4A, or split on silence. That is the point of a workstation instead of a one-shot website converter.

This feature page is the menu map: File → Import from YouTube runs local yt-dlp. The illustrated 1-2-3 lives on How to make a YouTube MP3 on this PC. Rights still apply. This is not a pirate converter.

How to do it in WaveSmith

1. File → Import from YouTube…

   

2. Paste a URL you are allowed to download.

   

3. When the MP3 opens, trim and Convert/Export if you need another format.

   

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