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Post by minorkey on Aug 27, 2014 13:40:24 GMT -5
I've come across a lot of full albums on youtube, many old and out of print and I was wondering if there's a way of downloading the music within as mp3s.
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Post by Pistol Pete on Aug 27, 2014 15:59:05 GMT -5
If you google "youtube to mp3" there's a plethora of options. Mostly you just have to paste the address of the youtube video into a website and it gives you the audio as an mp3 download.
Although these sites aren't strictly legal, I don't personally have a problem with using them for live takes and the like that aren't available commercially, although it's a bit of a grey area. I'd say there's a moral imperative to pay for things where you reasonably can.
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Post by earleg on Aug 28, 2014 23:10:31 GMT -5
I use this one and it works very well. FreeStudio 3.6 Just remember to choose the Audio Only (MP3) download option after you paste the line to the LP or songs into the download table.
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Post by jmuscara on Aug 30, 2014 8:38:27 GMT -5
Do you steal all forms of "electronic data" or just music? Do you support musicians (and others involved in recording) in other ways?
Those medieval bands and other musicians who predate the "abnormal level of control" era were supported somehow, otherwise they would not have been able to do what they did. Surely you don't expect musicians today to just do this for free, do you?
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Post by jmuscara on Aug 30, 2014 8:43:35 GMT -5
BTW, I might be okay with the idea of not 'owning' music (e.g. online streaming services instead of buying CDs or downloads), but if the creators aren't fairly compensated for their work, it will cease to exist.
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Post by jmuscara on Sept 13, 2014 8:45:35 GMT -5
I have made cassettes of CDs and even vinyl records in the past. But I never said it wasn't stealing, except when it was my own album and I was copying it for my own use. But copying from someone else is stealing.
Perhaps stealing isn't a great word to use here. Whatever you want to call it, it's a violation of a person's copyright. The purpose of copyright is to protect the creator and to encourage creators to create works so that they will continue to do so. Simply put, if there's no money to be made in making records, no one will make records.
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Post by earleg on Sept 13, 2014 12:19:30 GMT -5
I had 2 options last time I downloaded LPs. Take my notebook PC down to the basement, hook up to sound system to listen via Youtube or just download put onto a CD then take CD to basement and use on my normal system player. I downloaded 3 early Steely Dan LPs because I could only find 3 of my 6 CDs and also have several on vinyl but would have to find a place to put/hookup turn table.
It would not be fair otherwise if just constantly using ones I don't own. I downloaded a few that wondered if I like enough to get the CD and in most cases listened once or twice and that was it. Usually the manufactured CD itself sounds better than MP3. I wouldn't mind paying if it was reasonable and I felt would get more use than a listen or two.
Wonder how rights to these recordings are handled now?
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