The act of transferring video or audio content material from the YouTube platform to Apple’s iTunes (now Apple Music on macOS Catalina and later) ecosystem includes extracting the audio portion of a YouTube video and saving it in a format appropriate with iTunes. This course of generally ends in an MP3 or AAC file that may then be imported and managed throughout the Apple utility. For instance, a person would possibly select to amass a music solely out there on YouTube for offline listening by iTunes.
The worth in enabling the switch described above lies in offering customers with higher management over their audio content material. It permits for offline entry to audio that may in any other case solely be out there by YouTube’s streaming service, circumventing potential knowledge limitations or unreliable web connections. Traditionally, this performance crammed a spot in available digital music catalogs, providing an alternate route to acquire desired tracks or spoken-word content material.