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VLC, of course.

  1. Copy the URL of your video
  2. Fire up VLC
  3. Drop down menu: Media -> Open Network Stream
  4. Paste the link including the http:// prefix and all
  5. Press play
  6. Drop down menu: Video -> Video track -> Disable


Just tested it (to be fair, on Windows, but I'm fairly sure that it works on any platform VLC runs on)

If you don't want to go through the whole copypasting process, there's always command line VLC.

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This is exactly the answer I was looking for. I'm just a bit ashamed I didn't think of it myself (been using VLC for as long as I can remember). –  Alvar Aug 2 '14 at 22:38


#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import gobject
import pygst
import gst

mainloop = gobject.MainLoop()
player = gst.element_factory_make("playbin2", "player")
fakesink = gst.element_factory_make("fakesink", "fakesink")
player.set_property("video-sink", fakesink)
player.set_property("uri", sys.argv[1])


python ""
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mplayer -vo none KABUQxllGbk.webm



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I notice you are using a specific YouTube URL in your answer, which is just two lines of terminal commands with no description of how it works. Can you please elaborate on what exactly your answer does? –  Christopher Kyle Horton Nov 13 '11 at 3:30

Musictube Install Musictube is a YouTube music player.

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Worth noting from the link that this appears to be available in the Ubuntu Software Center, and it is also cross-platform. –  Christopher Kyle Horton Nov 13 '11 at 2:13

I personally install adblock and block the video section - for example if someone posts a video here, I block the video first to vet the title, about and sound.

How to:

Click AdBlock and "Block and ad on this page"

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Click the video

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Slide it to the last one that will not hide anything else:

Blocked element:
class=" watch-medium " >

Go to the end of the slider and 3 back.

Then click looks good.

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Finally click Block it.

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As you can see, sound is still playing.

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This is pretty clever, but it's not an audio player and it requires me to have my browser open. Sure not a big deal for most but not the solution I was looking for. –  Alvar Aug 2 '14 at 22:52


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