Podcasts · 5 min
Turning Video Podcasts into Audio Archives
Most podcasts publish full video versions on YouTube. Here's how to keep them as clean audio.
April 10, 2026
Podcasts increasingly launch on YouTube first, sometimes exclusively. If your listening happens on a commute or a run, the video is dead weight.
Convert the whole feed to MP3 in a single batch. Use the show's playlist rather than pulling episodes one by one — it preserves order and picks up new episodes if you re-run.
For talk-heavy content, 96–128 kbps mono is plenty. Cut your file size in half without a perceptual loss.
Rename with episode number prefixes so your podcast player queues them correctly.