If you are a music fan, or just like listening to songs at home, gym, or in the car, you will want to learn about a YouTube converter to MP3 that allows you to save videos to hard disk as MP3 files, so that you can upload them to iPhone, iPod, MP3 player, or car stereo. RealPlayer lets you do exactly this thing.

RealPlayer is a YouTube downloader with a set of powerful features. It lets you download and trim streaming video, and then save it to all popular video formats using presets for different devices. What's more, you can burn that video to DVD disks and post to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace to share fun with your friends and followers. But what makes RealPlayer stand out is the fact that you can use it as a YouTube converter to MP3.

Downloading and converting video to MP3 is very easy. As you are watching a clip on YouTube, you simply click the "Download This Video" button if you see something you want to save as MP3 for offline playback. The button appears on top of the content window when you move the mouse pointer over the video.

With RealPlayer, you will never again have to come back to your favorite online videos every time you want to watch them. Just download audio to your hard disk as MP3 files and enjoy them offline, or take them with you on a cell phone, iPhone, iPod, or MP3 player whenever you go.

You can download a YouTube video in a few simple steps. Of course, you need to download and install RealPlayer prior to these steps. You can find the YouTube converter to MP3 at http://www.realplayer.com

Ready? Okay. Let's imagine, for example, you want to download "Learn Japanese" by Tofugu. Step one is to find the video on YouTube, and then click the "Download This Video" button.

This starts the download. You can control the process in the downloader window. The window shows the size of downloaded content in megabytes and time remaining until the end of the download.

You can pause and resume the download, as well as cancel the process.

When the download is over, place the mouse pointer on the title of the video and you'll see these options: Trim, Convert, Copy. There are also buttons to social services that let you share your download on Facebook or Twitter.

Let's say, there are some undesirable scenes in the beginning and the end of the video, and we want to cut them out. For this, click the Trim button. This opens the trimmer window like the one below.

Using the "Set Start" and "Set End" buttons, you can make a selection and trim the video. To save the trimmed video, click the "Save Trim" button. Now go to the converter window again.

On this window, you can see the list of presets for saving video and the path to the output. Open the "Convert to" menu and select "Audio Formats > MP3" from the drop-down list.

Click OK, and then click "Start" on the converter window. This starts the automatic conversion. When it's over, you can find the audio file in the output folder and can upload it to your mobile device. Enjoy!

While there are some other tools out there that let you extract streaming video from YouTube and save it to MP3, YouTube converter to MP3 from RealPlayer is one of the only programs to offer this powerful set of options.

You can download and install the free version of the software from http://www.realplayer.com