It's ok as GAOTD but honestly can't see any reason to pay 30 bucks for a product like this, taking into account that most people out there are interested in watching a Youtube video rather than extract audio or convert it to MP3.

MP3 music files can be found and downloaded in a different FREE smarter way...

http://www.music2pc.com
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Audio/music2pc-Portable.shtml

And besides that you can also use freeware apps designed to do the same as this GAOTD or even more for FREE...

http://www.4kdownload.com/products/product-youtubetomp3
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/FSS-YouTube-Mp3-Downloader.shtml
http://atube-catcher.dsnetwb.com/video
http://www.pazera-software.com/products/audio-extractor

Then how about quickly optimize your MP3 files to an insane sound quality (320 Kbit/s, 48 kHz, Stereo) or just change their bitrate and size in batch, keeping the same level of audio quality and all ID3 tags intact for FREE?

http://www.dvdavitools.com/free-mp3-quality-optimizer
http://www.inspire-soft.net/software/mp3-quality-modifier

My 2 cents for today's giveaway....

Giovanni Mr FREE (Nothing is free?? Where?? L  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+144)

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I have tried this piece of software and you can see what you get here : http://www.aj3000.org/demo/index.html

I think that for 30 dollars it is too little.

Moreover, when I changed the output location, I wrote the name of the folder wrongly (download instead of downloads) and the file got never saved. But the programme never warned me that there might be a problem.

The whole process was quite quick and the UI is clear.

Not a bad piece but too expensive

Zdenek Rotrekl  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+37)

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A much better FREE option is available called aTube Catcher that you do not have to insert url which makes it so simple to do a search from your desktop and convert it right away to any format you want - long list of formats to choose from. It also has an audio stream catcher, screen recorder, video converter to a long list of formats, DVD/Blu Ray/CD Burner and an audio recorder. Did I mention that it is FREE?

CNET Rating 5/5, User Rating 3.5/5

Download From CNet Download.com HERE

Joey  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+33)

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This isn't the first time that software from PDFZilla.com has featured on GOTD so it's surprising that criticisms of this particular developer's laziness / sloppiness continue to be ignored.

Today's download and registration is thankfully fuss-free and kudos to PDFZilla for not bundling in unwanted extras, but dumping the installation on C:\ rather than the usual default of C:\Program Files\ is laziness personified.

That same cavalier disregard of an average user's expectations is evident in the program's Settings Menu, where the developer can't even be bothered to incorporate an option to choose, and fix, the destination folder of YouTube downloads -- so if you're not careful, you'll wind up with stuff yet again being dumped on C:\, this time in PDFZilla's c:\download.

Help is forthcoming for an average user who may not have realised that the program installation / destination folder defaults need revising, but that Help is pretty much an embarrassing admission anyway of the developer's incompetence: there'd have been no need of it if the Settings menu had beenm properly constructed.

Novice computer users are in any event going to be bemused by a Help document that says "first select Output format" and then "the last step is choosing the output folder, when the downloading finished the file will be saved to the folder you chose", because the Help terminology is a daft mismatch of the program's own Download Format and Download Path.

All the foregoing speaks yet again of inadequacies / inconsistencies that ought to have been mopped in the most rudimentary of beta stages before punting out to market at $30 a time.

As to the actual performance of the program, I've found it hit-and-miss as a downloader as well as irritating because perhaps predictably, the promise doesn't match the delivery: my Download Format of MP3 Format (*.mp3) - High Quality (320Kbps) MP3 Audio hasn't actually resulted in any audio file with that 320Kbps bit rate at all, and as for AAC, I've nothing to show for that, either.

The ill-advisability of giving the impression that everything downloaded by this program will be "High Quality 320Kbps" regardless of the source material's bit rate provides yet further reinforcement of the feeling that this is a rushed-to-market product that, though free today, isn't worth anything like the $cost of a re-installation -- and is in any event trounced in terms of useability and performance by existing software out there.

Thanks GOTD, and PDFZilla, but no thanks. Uninstalled. This developer really does need to get to grips with its much too casual approach to software engineering.

MikeR  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+19)

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I use this service online:

http://www.youtube-mp3.org

It is free, it is fast, it works well, it doesn't require an installation, but I have an open mind and am waiting for an argument that would make me think it would be worth to give this giveaway a try.

ouialaraison  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+18)

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