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Youtube Question
« on: March 23, 2010, 03:25:17 pm »
Guys, I want to get the audio off a Youtube video.  Don't care about the video.  Anyway to record or download the audio?   I know that there are some bits of software out there that will download youtube, but the sites look a little flaky.  Are there any mainstream ways to do this that don't upset anyone?

This is what I want to record, as this guy has a most excellent bardic pronunciation (what the Poms would call 'BBC English')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdZaPeJjAo

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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2010, 03:39:40 pm »
Realplayer can capture videos in flv (*correction*) format and there is an addon or version "SP" that will allow you to convert things into other media.  I used it to convert WMV files (cbts) into MP3s so I can listen to the instructor drone on in my car or on my recent $43 splurge on an MP3 player.

Only caveat I know of is that it requires XP or higher.

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« Last Edit: March 27, 2010, 02:24:41 am by DarkHumour »

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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2010, 03:40:46 pm »
I use a product called Replay Music to capture audio streams at https://applian.securesites.com/order_catalog.php?page_tag=&referral= and it is $19.95 US.  I use it to record audio streamed music to MP3's.

If you want something free Google for "capture audio stream freeware" and you should get quite a few alternatives.

Here is a link to a list of programs.  Note that the free ones are marked as "free" under price.
http://all-streaming-media.com/record-audio-stream/all-streaming-audio-recording-software.htm .   I just noticed that there is a link at the top of the page for downloading YouTube videos

Most of these types of products trap anything which passes through your sound card/MB so you can save it while streaming.
« Last Edit: March 23, 2010, 03:54:26 pm by pxsant »

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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2010, 07:09:23 pm »
Use Audacity, select "Wave" for the input and record away while it's playing. It's just that easy.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/



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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2010, 11:00:42 pm »
Yup. Audacity is free. Works great for lots of things. I have been using it for a few years, and they keep updating it.

And did I mention, it's free? :)

Great program.

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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2010, 01:28:19 pm »
Thanks for the reccomendations, guys.  Been trying them out, they work great!

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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2010, 03:53:00 pm »
Richardk is right, Audacity + Wave input is a very flexible combination. Otherwise, I used to use keepvid.com, but a range of choices is probably a good idea.

Now I've got a Mac, I know where to find the cached file so I just save that. Windows probably caches it too but I don't know where to find it.

While I listened to it, I saved it anyway, in flv and mp4 formats, if you should still want a copy.

And thanks for the goose-bump moments, it's a fine rendition. I should say for the benefit of the rest of the guys here that this song is a very moving anthem common to all the Brythonic Celtic nations - that's Cornwall, Wales, and Brittany, in contrast to the other half of the Celts, Ireland, Scotland, and Isle of Man. I personally know it best as the Welsh "Land of My Fathers". The usual place to hear it was at a rugby match between Wales and my native Scotland, so I tend to think of it as the prelude to my lot getting a good thrashing on the rugby pitch.

Have you heard the version by Breton folk-rock singer Alain Stivell on his album Brian Boru? He sings it in Breton, backed by the sound of the Welsh singing it at their then national rugby stadium, Cardiff Arms Park. It is just great (and is definitely my favourite of all songs sung simultaneously in two languages neither of which I understand).

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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2010, 08:51:37 am »
I can sing Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.....a Welshman once described it as 'recognisable'.  ::) .  The most difficult sound to master in the Welsh 'double LL' sound, which I'm given to understand occurs nowhere else in the world.  You position your mouth as if you going to make an L sound, and then instead of that, you basically hiss.

While my surname is Cornish, my Mum's grandfather was Welsh (and he had the temper to go with it too.)  The only Welsh phrase to be handed down was "Cardig geg <expletive deleted>", which basically means "Shut up",

The All-Blacks of course do the haka before a rugby match.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMpeSEgsO6M&playnext_from=TL&videos=xKHrn26QhRw&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rev-rn-4r-7-HM 

It's not just the Rugby team that does it either.  Here's the New Zealand police force doing it.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivsN18ijjM&feature=related

Australia once asked the question, what would be an appropriate Aussie response to this.  Given Australia's convict origins, the consensus of opinion was Akka-Dakka's "Jailbreak".  Imagine a stadium of Australia rugby fans roaring this out at a New Zealand team.


Jailbreak, jailbreak
I got to break out
Out of here

Heartbeats they were racin'
Freedom he was chasin'
Spotlights, sirens, rifles firing
But he made it out
With a bullet in his back

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Re: Youtube Question
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2010, 07:38:29 pm »
"common to all the Brythonic Celtic nations - that's Cornwall, Wales, and Brittany, in contrast to the other half of the Celts, Ireland, Scotland, and Isle of Man"

"Scholars distinguish between P-Celtic and Q-Celtic, putting most the Gaulish and Brythonic languages in the former group and the Goidelic and Celtiberian languages in the latter.  The difference between P and Q languages is the treatment of Proto-Celtic *kw, which became *p in the P-Celtic languages but *k in Goidelic. For example the word for head is pen in Brythonic languages but ceann in Goidelic; the word for son is mab (earlier map) in Brythonic but mac in Goidelic – maqq on the Primitive Irish Ogham inscriptions."

Hence, the bit about minding your P's & Q's.


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