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I download them from YouTube. I don’t think that’s illegal (The YouTube video has to be downloaded to my computer in order for my browser to play it. I just go

I download them from YouTube. I don’t think that’s illegal (The YouTube video has to be downloaded to my computer in order for my browser to play it. I just go one step ahead and extract the audio as mp3)

mirceal 4y ago
hmm... i'm not sure that's how it works. if i watch a movie in a cinema I will see it, right? I just take one more step and record my movie in the cinema so i can see it later. also, just because you can see/hear/taste/etc something in a given set of conditions does not mean that you have the right to re-experience it in perpetuity for free.
- randomluck040 4y ago
  I think the comparison is not accurate. According to you, the person you are answering to would only have to listen to the song somewhere. In reality, the movie you are mentioning isn’t being shown to him in the cinema (when watching something on YouTube) but instead he is given a CD (or USB stick, …) to put into a CD-drive (or port) in the cinema to start the movie. After the movie is finished, the person watching the movie leaves and the movie stays at the cinema but OP has „infinite“ access to it unless the cinema decides not to show it anymore. However, that’s still not how it works because I’m sure YouTube has some licensing going on.
  - mirceal 4y ago
    I think it's more like you have access to the cinema 24/7 and you pay by watching ads between movies.
cercatrova 4y ago
If you're going that far, just torrent FLACs or MP3s, you'll get better sound quality.
- Yaa101 4y ago
  Don't underestimate the quality of audio tracks in modern video containers.
Yaa101 4y ago
A video container (file) is essentially a collection of video, audio and subtitle tracks and a register where to find what in the container, so that one can extract any of them. You can download a youtube video with youtube-dl and one of the GUI projects that use it, once it's on your drive then you can use Audacity with the ffmpeg plugin to open that video and automatically get only the audio track(s) from it. In Audacity you can label gaps and after that multi export each song as a batch from that track. In audacity one can resample, edit, export as many different audio containers (mp2, mp3, flac, ogg, etc...)
- voussoir 4y ago
  If you're using youtube-dl, you can tell it to download only the audio track in the first place. Try `youtube-dl -F video_id` to learn what formats are available, then `youtube-dl -f format_number video_id`.

mirceal 4y ago

hmm... i'm not sure that's how it works. if i watch a movie in a cinema I will see it, right? I just take one more step and record my movie in the cinema so i can see it later. also, just because you can see/hear/taste/etc something in a given set of conditions does not mean that you have the right to re-experience it in perpetuity for free.

randomluck040 4y ago
I think the comparison is not accurate. According to you, the person you are answering to would only have to listen to the song somewhere. In reality, the movie you are mentioning isn’t being shown to him in the cinema (when watching something on YouTube) but instead he is given a CD (or USB stick, …) to put into a CD-drive (or port) in the cinema to start the movie. After the movie is finished, the person watching the movie leaves and the movie stays at the cinema but OP has „infinite“ access to it unless the cinema decides not to show it anymore. However, that’s still not how it works because I’m sure YouTube has some licensing going on.
- mirceal 4y ago
  I think it's more like you have access to the cinema 24/7 and you pay by watching ads between movies.

cercatrova 4y ago

If you're going that far, just torrent FLACs or MP3s, you'll get better sound quality.

Yaa101 4y ago
Don't underestimate the quality of audio tracks in modern video containers.

Yaa101 4y ago

A video container (file) is essentially a collection of video, audio and subtitle tracks and a register where to find what in the container, so that one can extract any of them. You can download a youtube video with youtube-dl and one of the GUI projects that use it, once it's on your drive then you can use Audacity with the ffmpeg plugin to open that video and automatically get only the audio track(s) from it. In Audacity you can label gaps and after that multi export each song as a batch from that track. In audacity one can resample, edit, export as many different audio containers (mp2, mp3, flac, ogg, etc...)

voussoir 4y ago
If you're using youtube-dl, you can tell it to download only the audio track in the first place. Try `youtube-dl -F video_id` to learn what formats are available, then `youtube-dl -f format_number video_id`.