YouTube to mp3 help needed...

[southpaw723]

The market for buying music is dead, this isn't the 70's. I'll buy cd's for better quality sometimes but I also use MP3 converters.

 

[LowActionHero]

Finally, I have tons of my own music available online for free. I'm not taking anything I'm not willing to give.
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There, everyone that clicked on that owes Joe 20 cents..

Or 99 cents..

Or something...

 

[Joe Nerve]

Finally, I have tons of my own music available online for free. I'm not taking anything I'm not willing to give.
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There, everyone that clicked on that owes Joe 20 cents..

Or 99 cents..

Or something...

Here's 3 full albums worth. You can download them for free, or drop some money in my paypal account . Which would you choose to do?

 

[ahc]

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[Joe Nerve]

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Yes. Thats been going on for at least a week. Hence, this thread .

 

[stringthrough]

YTD Video Downloader. 30 bucks per year subscription to open up all its features. Works like a charm. Worth 10 times the price.

Downloads youtube videos and optionally rips and converts the audio content to mp3. Even strips out any commercials.

YTD Video Downloader

 

[ahc]

Yes. Thats been going on for at least a week. Hence, this thread .

Ahhh. I get it. I haven't used it in a while hence my post.

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

I agree with others, if the song is available from iTunes, Spotify, or similar please help the artists get paid. Youtube is the worst when it comes artists being compensated.

Well, the good news is that the audio quality on youtube is often terrible.... but useful for learning a tune.

And frankly, I don't want Miley Cirus, Taylor Swift of Karty P to get a nickle of my money!

 

[Joe Nerve]

I agree with others, if the song is available from iTunes, Spotify, or similar please help the artists get paid. Youtube is the worst when it comes artists being compensated.

The artists from most of the tunes I download are dead anyway . And their families are getting money from ASCAP or BMI when I play those songs in a club anyhow. Maybe those artists should pay me for learning their songs and promoting or keeping their music alive. How bout them there apples .

 

[AaronVonRock]

I'm using this site at work right now with no issues at all. It's giving me some decent sounding mp3s. Not great, but decent. Better than nothing.

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[Joe Nerve]

This is the song I needed that started all this



Is it even available on itunes?

 

[BAG]

Buy the songs from iTunes and support the artists. I mean, you expect people to pay money to see you play, right?

Alternatively, support a company that pays a little more fairly and shell out $10 a month for Spotify, then build playlists of what you need.

YouTube has cut some seriously shady deals so that they don't have to pay even half of what Spotify does, which is a percentage of a penny per stream.

I agree with others, if the song is available from iTunes, Spotify, or similar please help the artists get paid. Youtube is the worst when it comes artists being compensated.

All well and good if you want the original version of the song however our trio consists of two acoustic guitars, cajon and bass. Very often i'll find an acoustic cover version of the song that someone has uploaded to YouTube which has a similar vibe to what we do and i'll use that to practice.

If I want a song to listen too, i'll buy it. If it's available on actual CD then that is what i'll buy.

As for Spotify, they also rip off artists the way they pay a fraction of a penny for each song streamed.
Invalid Link Removed Over a million streams of their songs and they got a grand total of $4,955.90 at an average per-stream payout of $0.004891

 

[J Posega]

All well and good if you want the original version of the song however our trio consists of two acoustic guitars, cajon and bass. Very often i'll find an acoustic cover version of the song that someone has uploaded to YouTube which has a similar vibe to what we do and i'll use that to practice.

If I want a song to listen too, i'll buy it. If it's available on actual CD then that is what i'll buy.

As for Spotify, they also rip off artists the way they pay a fraction of a penny for each song streamed.
Invalid Link Removed Over a million streams of their songs and they got a grand total of $4,955.90 at an average per-stream payout of $0.004891

I know how bad Spotify is, but YouTube is significantly worse.

 

[mmbongo]

A number of years ago I bought 'ReplayMusic' for about $20.
It will take anything you can play through the computer and record it.
I've gotten quite a bit of mileage out of it.

Audacity does this as well and is free! It will also save whatever you capture as an MP3.

 

[mmbongo]

I do a lot of my song learning in my car. Can't do that with the videos . I love my new car's usb. It's brand new technology to me.

Sure you can. Connect your phone to your car stereo via bluetooth, play anything you want.

 

[Joe Nerve]

Sure you can. Connect your phone to your car stereo via bluetooth, play anything you want.

Pretty dangerous flipping through YouTube videos while on the highway. Much easier to switch songs using the control on the steering wheel. And safer.

 

[mmbongo]

First, having grown up in the years before there was any such thing as mp3s, free music, or the internet, I'm quite certain I've paid for more music than half the current population. Second, there's nothing illegal about converting the YouTube links to mp3s. Third, all I'm doing is making it much more convenient for me to learn songs (there's no difference between the YouTube audio and mp3 audio). And finally, I'm learning crazy amounts of material and never listen to any of the songs I convert once I learned them. It would become a costly habit for me.

Finally, I have tons of my own music available online for free. I'm not taking anything I'm not willing to give. I feel beyond justified converting YouTube videos into mp3s.

And finally, FINALY... I still buy complete albums and cds when available from the bands I like.

I could actually come up with a bunch of other reasons why I am fine with doing this but I'm typing this out on my phone, and I hate writing on my phone.

Every time somebody comes to me bible thumping about 'you should support the artist and buy the song' I pull out my Dark Side of The Moon or Moving Pictures collection, each of which I've bought at least 12 times on various formats over the years

Between cassette, vinyl, cd, remasters, remasters of remasters, MoFi, laserdisc, SACD, DVD, and Blu Ray, I'll bet I've bought every Rush album 5 times now.

 

[mmbongo]

Pretty dangerous flipping through YouTube videos while on the highway. Much easier to switch songs using the control on the steering wheel. And safer.

True dat! But you can just make a YouTube playlist and let it fly. Just for future knowledge

 

[mmbongo]

I've been using Transcribe! from www.seventhstring.com for the last several months to learn songs. At $39 it's worth every penny. It will work with any format I've thrown at it, which includes videos. There is a 30 day free trial period for you to try it out before you buy it.

This program is fantastic as well. It's invaluable if you need to learn a song in a different key. Just change it to the key you want and save the new file. BAM, you now have the song in a different key so you can learn it.

 

[Bass'd on a true story]

If you want an alternative to tools and sites that might give you a virus, you can always just use a daw or streaming software (like obs) and just set the recording source to your computer.