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@leah.menon
YouTube Oct 16, 2026

Getting wav audio out of my own youtube uploads on pc

I've lost the original audio files for a few videos I uploaded to my own channel years ago, and I need them as wav for a re-edit. What's the cleanest way to get the audio back out at decent quality?
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kritikap Oct 20, 2026
leah.menon
Since they're your own uploads, use YouTube Studio: Content, hover the video, the three dots menu, Download. That gives you an mp4 straight from YouTube without any third party sites. Then pull the audio out with VLC (Media > Convert/Save) or open the mp4 in Audacity and export as WAV. Be aware what you get back is YouTube's compressed version, not your original. Fine for a re-edit, but saving it as WAV won't bring back what the compression took out.
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