The act of extracting the sound component from a video hosted on YouTube is a common practice. This involves separating the auditory track from the visual content, resulting in an independent audio file. An example would be obtaining only the music from a YouTube music video, discarding the visuals.
This process offers several advantages. It allows for offline listening to content originally presented as a video, saving data consumption. It facilitates remixing, sampling, and editing the audio for creative projects. Historically, individuals used various methods, often involving dedicated software or online conversion tools, to achieve this separation.