While my prefered way to enjoy Youtube videos is to have them downloaded as mp3 format, Have you ever been so annoyed with not being able to play YouTube in the background on your smartphone, whether Android or iOS? Of course, I know the obvious answer, YES! It is actually irritating when you want to only listen to the music of the video so that you can do multiple tasks instead of just sticking to the video. But since you are not among the YouTube Red subscribers, you deal with it like it’s an obligation. Well, only unless you know how to cheat.

You may find it absurd but yes, you can play YouTube in the background on your Android or iOS and do other things on your phone. And the trick is to use a browser instead of the YouTube app to play the video that you only want to listen to.

Watching music videos or simply listening to music is a sensational soul relieving act. A proper motivation is when the music or videos are of high quality. This art is also a mood booster for starting and ending a day. They’re plenty of websites that let you stream music and watch their videos, the most known site is YouTube, their one problem is; no download option. Since not all the time we are connected to the internet, it’s of essence to download the music videos and watch them at later times. To achieve this, download utilities are used, some are good and some are “not good at all”. The comparison below will enable you make the decision of the utility to use.

1. Easy YouTube Video Downloader

This add-on is your best option when downloading music videos, especially music videos from YouTube. This online multi-platform hassle free add-on will enable you to download videos in most formats and in a high definition quality. You can also download them in an audio format such as MP3 and that’s why it’s the best. It is compatible with all browsers that support add-ons and no other third party software’s are required.

Unlike other download utilities, there’s no copy-pasting of links, once you have installed the add-on, you are equipped with a clean elegant button which has a drop-down menu for selecting the formats. The best part, it’s of a small interface with no advertisement and other third-party pop-ups. It only features what’s needed and does away with unnecessary configuration options. Also, you don’t have to leave the video site in order to download the video, it's instant.

This add-on also assures speed. There are no lags and dropdowns unless you have a smaller bandwidth. With good speeds from the YouTube servers, your downloads will be done in a matter of seconds and you can access the downloaded file offline at your pleasure.

Pros
- Supports almost all video formats such as MP4, 3GP, FLV
- High-quality video downloads; Full HD 720 and 1080
- High-quality audio downloads; bit rates of 128 and 256Kbps
- Superfast instant download
- Advertisement free and without any malware, trusted with four-years of service having 1024 reviews averaging 4* at Mozilla Store (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-download/reviews/)
- No cluttered interface.

Cons
- Not yet available.

While downloading videos from Youtube is easy with addons like Easy Youtube Video Downloader even in full-hd and high-quality mp3 with ease, the same is not possible for DRM copy-protected videos on paid services like Netflix.

Two researchers, David Livshits and Alexandra Mikityuk, identified Google of a potential bug in the Chrome browser. The users can copy and download movies from online streaming sites such as Netflix. These are the movies that are encrypted and are copy-protected. The researchers notified of the potential bug on May 24, but Google still has to respond to the problem.

The Bug: What It Can Do

When Google Chrome users stream media through the browser, they can create a copy of the movie easily. The problem looks simple but in reality, not everyone can download the movie when streaming via Chrome.

The issue is with the Widevine, which is the digital management system owned by the Google. Widevine is responsible for decrypting the encrypted videos from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other online streaming sites. These sites have strict content protection systems in place to keep the content secure. The idea is to only allow the viewers to see the video on the browser. Downloading the videos is not allowed in any case.

Google announced a slew of new features at this year's VidCon. After giving the treat for high-quality 4K Ulta-HD video streaming to users, Youtube is all prepped-up to make available streaming support for high-frame rate (HFR) videos at 48 and 60 FPS. With all the new clarity and loss of "cinematic look" on higher frame rates, this would be a feature best suited for video game footage and trailers. Apart for this, Youtube will also enable fans to contribute money to channels and support them, allow uploads of fan contributed video subtitles, better Annotations in form of new interactive information cards which uploaders can program to work across desktop, phones and tablets and more ways to create and generate playlists.

Youtube team has also made available a playlist of these high-frame rate videos as shared below, make sure you watch them in HD quality to load the HFR version.

2013 is coming to an end, and Youtube team is out with a compilation of year's most viral videos for you to enjoy at a single place. Do watch and share the most popular Youtube videos of this year.

While 4K Ultra HD displays are still very expensive, there adaptation rate is picking up slowly and steadily as more and more vendors are coming up with new models making the technology affordable. To enjoy the best quality results on these high resolution 4K UHD and Full-HD screen's, we need high-resolutions videos to match there native resolution. There are quite a few "PAID" commercial utilities which allow users to download these videos from Youtube, but today we will be sharing a much easier, faster and best of all "FREE" cross-platform, cross-browser solution to grab these high-quality videos without paying anything.

Easy Youtube Video Downloader is a free, simple, fast and clean solution which allows users to instantly download Youtube videos in 4K Ultra HD, 1080p Full-HD, 720p HD, 480/360p MP4, FLV, 3GP and High-quality 192kbps MP3 formats right from Youtube video pages without loading any external software or hassle of copy-pasting URL's. The web-browser addon works on your favorite web-browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Apple Safari) on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

BlazeVideo YouTube Downloader is a free utility for Windows allowing users to download Youtube videos with ease. A user just need to add the URL of the video and click the start button, once downloaded user can also convert the video to the format of their choice which is compatible with various devices.

The Youtube geographical video viewing restrictions were easily bypassed using a simply URL trick shared earlier, however the hack is no longer working so here we have a new working solution to view videos without the regional/geographic block anywhere in world.

One of the most convenient and fastest way to download videos from Youtube website in various formats has been "Easy Youtube Video Downloader" which is already available as a free web-browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, the popular free browser addon is now ported to work with Apple Safari browser and is available for public download. Easy Youtube Video Downloader For Safari allows users to download Youtube videos to their computers for offline viewing in MP3, FLV, 3GP, MP4, 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities.

Popular free Youtube video downloader plugin for Firefox "Easy Youtube Video Downloader" is now available on Google Chrome platform, the free extension allows Google Chrome Web-browser user's to download Youtube videos in MP3, MP4, FLV, 3GP, 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD video qualities with a single-click at fastest download speeds directly from Youtube servers.

Sadly, because of copyright issues official Google Chrome Extension Gallery denied accepting the extension but the addon is now available for download at Yourvideofile.com website where you can find all Google Chrome Extensions not available at the official source.