Youtube jam tracks

[68Goldfish]

Hey guys and galls. Quick question on recording bass to pre recorded jam tracks. A little background....Lately I discovered the world of recording my bass in garage band to songs that I have stripped the bass out of. Essentially I put a song into the Moises app, strip it down to it's individual parts, isolate the bass to learn it and then import the bass-less song into garage band where I use my Focusrite to re record the bass parts. What a blast. I've been playing bass since the mid eighties and this has to be one of the coolest things I've ever done. My first question is what's the legality of sharing such a project with others. And what's the best way to do it? Another question I had is how do you go about downloading a jam track off of YouTube and putting it into garage band to play/record bass too. I know it has to be a mp3 to get it into garage band. I imagine you need some kind of conversion tool to download the track and convert it to an mp3. Or is there a place where you can buy jam tracks in mp3 form. I've somehow managed to figure out a lot of this stuff myself but sometimes it's easier to just ask the questions. Especially to my bass playing brothers and sisters.

 

[silky smoove]

Another question I had is how do you go about downloading a jam track off of YouTube and putting it into garage band to play/record bass too.

I've never seen a means of downloading directly from YouTube, but it may exist. You could always you something like Sound Flower to create a virtual I/O from your computer. You then route that output into your DAW, hit record in the DAW and then hit play in YouTube. The audio stream will then be recorded in real time into your DAW.

 

[DirkP]

You could use Audacity. It’s free, available for Windows and Mac OS, and it allows to directly record computer-audio and to convert audio into all sorts of formats, mp3, wave etc.

 

[68Goldfish]

Ok, thanks guys. I thought it was something that people did all the time. If I understand right it sounds like your both talking about essentially the same thing. I'll look into it.

 

[bholder]

Legality: likely not, sorry, unless the youtube video author explicitly permits copying. Most do not.

Technically: If you're on Windows, you can enable the "stereo mix" signal, which is everything you hear through the speakers. Then go into your DAW and "stereo mix" should appear in the list of mic sources. Just play the video, hope for no other incoming noise, and record away.

 

[DirtDog]

I've never seen a means of downloading directly from YouTube, but it may exist. You could always you something like Sound Flower to create a virtual I/O from your computer. You then route that output into your DAW, hit record in the DAW and then hit play in YouTube. The audio stream will then be recorded in real time into your DAW.

There used to be command line tools like YouTube-dl that was able to extract audio from YT vids, but that hasn’t worked in a year or so. There’s other tools out there but I havent been able to make them work either (eg Firefox extensions).

 

[JRA]

what's the legality of sharing such a project with others.

if you're making covers, and labeling as such, i think you're fine.

how do you go about downloading a jam track off of YouTube and putting it into garage band to play/record bass

@DirkP's suggestion to use audacity sounds like the easiest solution. even if you only used it for conversions.

one method:
i record stuff off of YT (internet in general) regularly and often (for all kinds of reasons), but i'm afraid you'd need an interface (e.g., for DAWS) and maybe even a separate recording device (i use an old zoom H2).

YT > interface via the computer > mixer (optional) > zoom. i record wav files, but the zoom also records MP3s/other. whatever i'm recording gets loaded into my DAW.

 

[Passinwind]

You could use Audacity. It’s free, available for Windows and Mac OS, and it allows to directly record computer-audio and to convert audio into all sorts of formats, mp3, wave etc.

Yep. I hadn't used it in years but just downloaded it and was able to get it working great for that in less than five minutes.

 

[68Goldfish]

if you're making covers, and labeling as such, i think you're fine.


@DirkP's suggestion to use audacity sounds like the easiest solution. even if you only used it for conversions.

one method:
i record stuff off of YT (internet in general) regularly and often (for all kinds of reasons), but i'm afraid you'd need an interface (e.g., for DAWS) and maybe even a separate recording device (i use an old zoom H2).

YT > interface via the computer > mixer (optional) > zoom. i record wav files, but the zoom also records MP3s/other. whatever i'm recording gets loaded into my DAW.

Thanks for the responses guys. I'm checking out the audacity thing now. It's all just for fun. Such a good way to practice.

 

[68Goldfish]

Well it seems that the easiest way is to go to band camp and just buy baseless backing tracks that you can download as an mp3. Then they can be imported right into garage band. I didn’t know that was a thing. That way everybody is happy!

 

[DirtDog]

There used to be command line tools like YouTube-dl that was able to extract audio from YT vids, but that hasn’t worked in a year or so. There’s other tools out there but I havent been able to make them work either (eg Firefox extensions).

To add to this, given that YouTube-dl doesn’t work anymore, I started looking at other solutions that would work on a Mac. I landed on Loopback from Rogue Amoeba. Basically works like a virtual patchbay where you can route audio from any application to any other (eg from Safari/Chrome to Logic). Took a bit of finagling to install various sub components but once up and running it’s super easy to setup and use as you need.

 

[themickster]

Hey guys and galls. Quick question on recording bass to pre recorded jam tracks. A little background....Lately I discovered the world of recording my bass in garage band to songs that I have stripped the bass out of. Essentially I put a song into the Moises app, strip it down to it's individual parts, isolate the bass to learn it and then import the bass-less song into garage band where I use my Focusrite to re record the bass parts. What a blast. I've been playing bass since the mid eighties and this has to be one of the coolest things I've ever done. My first question is what's the legality of sharing such a project with others. And what's the best way to do it? Another question I had is how do you go about downloading a jam track off of YouTube and putting it into garage band to play/record bass too. I know it has to be a mp3 to get it into garage band. I imagine you need some kind of conversion tool to download the track and convert it to an mp3. Or is there a place where you can buy jam tracks in mp3 form. I've somehow managed to figure out a lot of this stuff myself but sometimes it's easier to just ask the questions. Especially to my bass playing brothers and sisters.

YouTube is protected from downloading. Maybe you can ask the channel for an MP3

 

[DECOSTAJ]

Not my words (below), generated from asking Bing, How to download...
I doubt it's legal, but there you have it.

To download audio from YouTube, you can use a variety of tools. One such tool is YoutubeMP3Free.com. It is a trusted online service that allows you to convert videos from YouTube to MP3. You only need to input the video URL, and it will download and convert it to MP3 for you. All conversions are performed in high-quality mode with a bitrate of at least 128 kBit/s. The service is totally free, and an approximate time for each video is 4-5 minutes (depending on video size) 1.

Another option is to use YouTube Music. If you have a YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium subscription, you can download music from YouTube. In the YouTube Music app, tap the three-dot icon on any song, album, or playlist, and hit “Download” 2.

You can also use apps like 4K Video Downloader or Youtube-dl to download audio. If you don’t want to install an app, you can use a download website like Dirpy or Motionbox 3.

 

[DirtDog]

To add to this, given that YouTube-dl doesn’t work anymore, I started looking at other solutions that would work on a Mac. I landed on Loopback from Rogue Amoeba. Basically works like a virtual patchbay where you can route audio from any application to any other (eg from Safari/Chrome to Logic). Took a bit of finagling to install various sub components but once up and running it’s super easy to setup and use as you need.

After doing this, I don’t recommend it. It worked fine but required bypassing security settings to run something called ACE (driver of some sort). This botched my audio settings for pretty much everything else, so much that I thought my interface was broken. Long story short, uninstalled Loopback, cleaned the folder where ACE was installed, reinstated the original security setting, reinstalled OS, reinstalled Logic, tried all my other interfaces and updated my interface firmware before getting things working normally again.

The way ACE seemed to work: it took precedence over any other audio device setting, seemingly running in the background. To be clear, my system wasn’t corrupted by malware, but the Loopback architecture became a problem everywhere else in my system.

I would avoid this if you want your audio environment to be stable. YMMV of course.