how do I download music from youtube to burn on a CD?

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DB731

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Looking for the best* way to download music from youtube to burn to a CD (presumably .wav format?).

(* cheapest, easiest, simplest, quickest would be my considerations)
 
I use this link to convert YouTube to an MP3 file, that I normally would add to my iTunes music library to play on my iPod... you should be able to convert to WAV if you want using other software, or even the iTunes software, which can be used to create CD's, normally WAV files from what I remember... don't burn too many CD's anymore.

I often will use the free Audacity software to sometimes edit the file, then export it, and it can be exported in other formats besides the MP3 format.

http://www.video2mp3.net/
 
Download, burn, free = piracy. I agree with chevyscott, find a place you like and pay for it.
 
dr_fosg8 said:
Download, burn, free = piracy. I agree with chevyscott, find a place you like and pay for it.
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Tried that too. The closest store that may have had what I was looking for was in Chicago. I live 432 miles from Chicago.
 
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This method used to work when I was in High School. Just hold it close to the speakers and you're on your way.
 
I had a program that would collect the sound only from a you-tube video and save as an MP3, which is readable from a CD on most modern home and car audio systems. I don't seem to have the program installed any more and can't think of the name, but if you can't find an alternative let me know and I'll spend a few minutes and attempt to look it up.
 
dr_fosg8 said:
Download, burn, free = piracy. I agree with chevyscott, find a place you like and pay for it.
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DB731 said:
Tried that too. The closest store that may have had what I was looking for was in Chicago. I live 432 miles from Chicago.
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Chicago is disaster city for record stores. I've collected music for a long time and there were always problems: in the 1950s, record stores in white neighborhoods mostly didn't stock "race records" and wouldn't order them. Today you can't even call them stores, I call them record holes. Since Tower Records closed, we have nothing but Jazz Record Mart: they aren't cheap but they know jazz and blues, and they know how to order what they don't keep in stock. Yes, we have a few other stores. I have checked them and IMO you can do better online.

We used to have pirate record stores. The one I shopped at had a window full of children's clothing. They had two kinds of records, stolen and pirated, $1.50 each or five for $5. Pirated records were pressed on crappy recycled vinyl and they wore out really fast. I soon learned that cut-outs were a much better deal. If you don't know about cut-outs, read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-out_%28recording_industry%29

I bought cut-out LPs at Rose Records, Jazz Record Mart, and Mister T's. Mister T sold jazz only: he had an audiophile sound system, and he played the latest merchandize he liked really loud. Jazz Record Mart is still in business and they have a web store. Berkshire Record Outlet is the best cut-out music store I've found online. They had 19,865 cut-out CDs and DVDs in stock this morning. They carry 90% classical, 9% jazz, and 1% everything else. If you buy classical there, you need to know classical music very well or get advice from someone who does.

Don't get hung up on piracy. We have a huge legacy of recorded music in which the performers, composers, lyric writers, recording engineers and producers are long dead, and the original recording labels are out of business. The copyrights, master tapes, and sometimes the session tapes and metal masters are owned by multinational corporations, and our Congress has extended their copyrights to 99 years. These corporations want $16.99 and up for a CD, and if you won't pay, they say you are a pirate and destroying the art of music. If you believe that, welcome to the fantasy. IMO they are destroying the art of music. My advice is to stay out of trouble and listen to as much music as you can. If it is good music, it will improve your mind and make your life happier and more rewarding.
 
Piso, a Ferrari would make my life more enjoyable, does that give me the right to take one for free? I'm not exactly understanding your reasoning there.
 
Maybe I should have specified that the stuff I was interested in on youtube is not copyrighted?
 
Can you find it at any of the online stores that sell MP3 music, like Amazon? I'm guessing that'll be better quality than something streamed and captured from Youtube.
 
Naw, it's not piracy, so long as you save money. I bought my wife's wedding ring this way. Jail wasn't so bad....
 
00ChevyScott said:
Piso, a Ferrari would make my life more enjoyable, does that give me the right to take one for free? I'm not exactly understanding your reasoning there.
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You probably don't remember tape recorders. In 1955, if you added an FM tuner and a tape deck to your music system, you could record broadcasted music and your recordings were indistinguishable from the LPs the radio stations played. Sure there was sound degradation, but no one had equipment good enough to hear it.

Of course there was no Digital Rights Management because there was no digital music. But no one thought of Analog Rights Management. The record companies knew we were taping and they were fine with that. To them it was free advertising. They knew we would learn to love their catalog and their house variety of recorded sound, and then we would want a hard copy, i.e. an LP. Because magnetic tape stretches and breaks, and every time you cut and splice it you lose a chunk of music.

We taped LPs from the public library, and we taped our own LP collections too. LPs degrade a little bit every time they are played, so we taped our LPs and listened to the tapes. No one thought of making LPs that couldn't be taped. I don't think you could have published that as a science fiction story, it would have sounded too ridiculous.

Why can't music publishers use MP3s as advertising? They are degraded copies of musical recordings. Paying for degraded recordings does not appeal to me. I've bought well-worn LPs when I couldn't get the music another way, but I've never paid more than 50¢ for an album with 14 or 15 tracks.

Do you know how fast music is pulled from YouTube when publishers don't want it there? It is a legal industry. And here is DB731, who wants to download some degraded public domain music from YouTube, with people telling him he's an auto thief or a jewelry thief if he can't find someone to pay. I just don't get it.

Who ever heard of 99 year copyrights? Twenty years is enough for creators and producers to be fairly compensated. It is good to be concrete, so here is a concrete example of how our copyright law works and whose interests it serves.

In 1955, violinist David Oistrakh visited the United States. On December 24 he was in Philadelphia, and he recorded Mendelssohn's violin concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra for Columbia Records. It is a marvelous recording, but Columbia never reissued it on CD because it is monaural. CBS sold Columbia and its catalog to Sony. Sony will not reissue the recording, and they will not license it to anyone who wants to reissue it. They feel it is worth more as a financial asset if it is withheld from the public. Naxos Records hired Mark Obert-Thorn to produce a reissue in the UK, where this recording is in the public domain. He used unplayed collector vinyl and he did a terrific job: Sony's session tapes might sound a little better, but then again they might not. Unfortunately the CD cannot be sold in the USA until 2054. I broke the law when I bought it, and an EU music dealer broke the law selling it to me. Maybe he can get me a price on a Ferrari.
 
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