How to extract audio with youtube-dl on Windows

Question

I want to extract audio from a video downloaded with youtube-dl on Windows. I got youtube-dl working, but am unable to extract the audio. This problem is caused due to not h

Answer 1

A quick fix for Windows users:

1. Download the ffmpeg package from http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/, unzip it, copy ALL the contents of the Bin directory to the directory where youtube-dl.exe is located.

2. Using DOS navigate to the directory where youtube-dl is located and run using the command:

   youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3