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Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 11:28am
by Crossroads Inc.
Ok, so right off the bat, if attempting to do this is violating something, or going against copyrights or something, let me know.. Because I don't want to download videos here from youtube...all I want is the AUDIO. someone told me there was a program that would actually do this, but Ive yet to find it... Anyone have any ideas.?

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 12:06pm
by General Zod

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 12:44pm
by Crossroads Inc.
Need one for the mac os, though i think i found anther version, I downloaded "RecordPad sound recorder... now I just have to see if it can record off youtube.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 01:12pm
by andrewgpaul
Almost certain it's still a copyright violation, even if you're simply taking the audio from an audio/video file.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 01:13pm
by Feil
If you can't be bothered with new software: Get or make a male-to-male stereo audio cable. String it from your speaker jack to your microphone jack. Open the sound recording software of your choice and record. Trim the ends of the recording, save in a format your player can use and at an appropriate resolution, and name the file.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 01:13pm
by General Zod
Crossroads Inc. wrote:Need one for the mac os, though i think i found anther version, I downloaded "RecordPad sound recorder... now I just have to see if it can record off youtube.
See. . .it generally helps to specify what OS you want these programs for if you're asking these kind of things first. http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 01:14pm
by General Zod
andrewgpaul wrote:Almost certain it's still a copyright violation, even if you're simply taking the audio from an audio/video file.
No more than recording audio from a radio broadcast would be.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 01:19pm
by Feil
andrewgpaul wrote:Almost certain it's still a copyright violation, even if you're simply taking the audio from an audio/video file.
Why would it be? If it is on Youtube legally, people are already downloading it as many times as they want.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 02:35pm
by Qwerty 42
Feil wrote:
andrewgpaul wrote:Almost certain it's still a copyright violation, even if you're simply taking the audio from an audio/video file.
Why would it be? If it is on Youtube legally, people are already downloading it as many times as they want.
Like all filesharing, there's going to be some copyright violations. But if you're just downloading the audio of, say, some kids jumping off a roof for whatever reason, that would probably be legal.

When I get youtube audio, I go with http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w ... JpTzHr45Iw.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 02:46pm
by General Zod
Qwerty 42 wrote: Like all filesharing, there's going to be some copyright violations. But if you're just downloading the audio of, say, some kids jumping off a roof for whatever reason, that would probably be legal.
What file-sharing? If all you're doing is ripping a stream to your hard drive it's no different than recording a TV show through VHS. The idea that there's infringements from recording audio off Youtube is absurd.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 03:06pm
by Qwerty 42
General Zod wrote:
Qwerty 42 wrote: Like all filesharing, there's going to be some copyright violations. But if you're just downloading the audio of, say, some kids jumping off a roof for whatever reason, that would probably be legal.
What file-sharing? If all you're doing is ripping a stream to your hard drive it's no different than recording a TV show through VHS. The idea that there's infringements from recording audio off Youtube is absurd.
There would be infringement if it were copyrighted audio: this is why WMG has locked a number of Yes songs, for instance.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 03:12pm
by General Zod
Qwerty 42 wrote: There would be infringement if it were copyrighted audio: this is why WMG has locked a number of Yes songs, for instance.
There's numerous copyrighted songs on youtube. The only reason the audio would be locked out is if the creators hadn't given permission to have them uploaded, so there's still no more infringement than if someone had recorded it off a radio or TV.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 06:16pm
by Qwerty 42
How is the law presently written? I had been under the impression that even the inadvertent download of material the originator had not been authorized to broadcast was illegal. That's the RIAA's stance, at least, although that doesn't mean much, necessarily, in terms of legality.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 07:20pm
by General Zod
Qwerty 42 wrote:How is the law presently written? I had been under the impression that even the inadvertent download of material the originator had not been authorized to broadcast was illegal. That's the RIAA's stance, at least, although that doesn't mean much, necessarily, in terms of legality.
Does it really matter anyway? Crossroads didn't say dick about what he wanted to record. Idiots just jumped the gun and assumed it must be illegal. As long as the creator gave permission to upload it onto sites like youtube then I don't see why the law would treat this any differently from recording off a VCR.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 08:32pm
by Qwerty 42
General Zod wrote:
Qwerty 42 wrote:How is the law presently written? I had been under the impression that even the inadvertent download of material the originator had not been authorized to broadcast was illegal. That's the RIAA's stance, at least, although that doesn't mean much, necessarily, in terms of legality.
Does it really matter anyway? Crossroads didn't say dick about what he wanted to record. Idiots just jumped the gun and assumed it must be illegal. As long as the creator gave permission to upload it onto sites like youtube then I don't see why the law would treat this any differently from recording off a VCR.
I never assumed it was illegal, I cautioned him to be careful about which content to download, in case some of it was.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 08:44pm
by YT300000
Feil wrote:If you can't be bothered with new software: Get or make a male-to-male stereo audio cable. String it from your speaker jack to your microphone jack. Open the sound recording software of your choice and record. Trim the ends of the recording, save in a format your player can use and at an appropriate resolution, and name the file.
You don't even have to bother with the cable - just open up the volume mixer in your computer, and set the recording mode to Stereo Mix. At that point, the software will track whatever your sound card outputs.

A good piece of software to use would be Audacity, it's clean and of very good quality.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 08:54pm
by General Zod
Qwerty 42 wrote:
General Zod wrote:
Qwerty 42 wrote:How is the law presently written? I had been under the impression that even the inadvertent download of material the originator had not been authorized to broadcast was illegal. That's the RIAA's stance, at least, although that doesn't mean much, necessarily, in terms of legality.
Does it really matter anyway? Crossroads didn't say dick about what he wanted to record. Idiots just jumped the gun and assumed it must be illegal. As long as the creator gave permission to upload it onto sites like youtube then I don't see why the law would treat this any differently from recording off a VCR.
I never assumed it was illegal, I cautioned him to be careful about which content to download, in case some of it was.
After incorrectly identifying Youtube as a file-sharing site; which, you know, it isn't. The onus of any copyrighted content would be on youtube and the uploader, not the person who watched the stream.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-25 10:52pm
by Qwerty 42
After incorrectly identifying Youtube as a file-sharing site; which, you know, it isn't.
I used the incorrect word, for which i apologize.
The onus of any copyrighted content would be on youtube and the uploader, not the person who watched the stream.
Which was my question, thank you.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-26 04:35am
by TheLostVikings
Crossroads Inc. wrote:Ok, so right off the bat, if attempting to do this is violating something, or going against copyrights or something, let me know.. Because I don't want to download videos here from youtube...all I want is the AUDIO. someone told me there was a program that would actually do this, but Ive yet to find it... Anyone have any ideas.?
Simply go to the youtube video you want to rip the audio from, and then insert "listento" between the "www." and "youtube" and then press enter. Or alternatively go to http://listentoyoutube.com/ and paste the url of the video you want.

No need to install anything, so it's pretty much as simple as it can get.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-26 02:41pm
by Memnon
There's an online converter that can do this too, at this site.
It's not exactly 100% reliable, but it comes in handy every once in a while.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-28 05:13am
by DesertFly
It's funny; PCWorld actually had this exact topic covered recently. Video2Mp3 is precisely what you're looking for. And it's nice because you don't have to sign up or anything, just toss it a YouTube addy and it will spit out an Mp3 to download.

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-06-29 12:57am
by Vertigo1
Type in "kick" in-between the www. and youtube.com. Have fun. :)

Re: Pulling sound files from youtube.

Posted: 2009-07-02 01:24pm
by Ar-Adunakhor
Maybe I'm a little late, but I have to second the reccomendation for Audacity. It's a very nice program that lets you snag soundstreams from many sources and do all kinds of neat things to them. Combine it with SoundForge and you should have all the audio tools the average person needs.