Free online converter for online file formats - UNAVAILABLE NOW

 APPARENTLY GOOGLE HAS BEEN AFTER THESE FOLKS AND THEIR SITE IS CURRENTLY NOT WORKING.

This sophisticated free online clip converter lets you put in the url of the clip you are interested in and convert it to mp3. It works with YouTube and quite a few other kinds of sites.  It lets you make a lot of choices including where to start and end the conversion from a longer video, what meta-data you'd like to put in id3 tag - you can even choose your mp3 bitrate - for most radio station purposes, choose 192kbps. http://www.clipconverter.cc/

File conversion and other functions for free

 Free "Studio Manager" software

 http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm#.UmrJyBAs18E

With this free software you can:
- convert video and audio files between different formats as well as iPod, PSP, iPhone, BlackBerry and all other popular mobile phones and devices;
- burn and rip DVDs and audio CDs;
- upload and download YouTube videos and music to your computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone or BlackBerry;
- perform basic editing of audio and video files;
- record videos and make snapshots;
- create 3D videos and images.

Thanx to Marko for finding this.

Getting Audio from YouTube - New Info

 http://www.vidtomp3.com/
Thanks to Marko for sharing this web page for ripping audio from YouTube (by permission only, of course). This is good to know because the Download Helper plug-in for Firefox that I used to recommend has been disabled. - Frieda