MP3 Universe

Looking for a nice easy way to collect MP3's of popular music?

Step 1. Find the video for the song you want on YouTube. They are often encoded quite nicely.

Step 2. IMPORTANT! Make sure that the video is listed as being LEGAL for you to download.

Step 3. Use the program found here: http://www.petur.eu/blog/?p=5
It's a nice easy "youtube2mp3" script, that does all of the tedious work for you.


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I don't find the encoding to be very good on youtube but it depends how serious you are. for casual listening its acceptable, it's certainly better than no song at all.. but poor in comparison to a well encoded high bitrate or vbr mp3 from other sources.

The couple of rips I've tried seemed to be 128 kbps. It's definitely not audiophile quality, but most people who just want to hear some tunes aren't really going to care.

I've been meaning to work out how to do that, how convienent that somebody has done it for me.

Heh. Now that I've got USB/MP3 in my car (well, I will after I install the new stereo that my wife bought me for my birthday) I've gotta shore up my MP3 collection.

I got an 8 gig sd card and I have yet to be able to fill it up. i love my bt110i110iii1i.

hi everybody I need help.
My friend for whom I fixed his computer posed an interesting question to me.
Apparently when you install itunes, it will let you copy stuff from your ipod to itunes if it originally came from itunes, but if you have mp3 that it doesn't know about you can't load them into itunes.
But obviously there is a way and I'm thinking you know what it is.
So.... suggestions?

You have to import it into your "library"

he says it doesn't do that. is this a new or old feature or something obvious we're missing

Dunno. I don't really spend any time in iTunes; this is just from what I remember. And I remember it's an obtuse pain in the ass to use.

I found this:
http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/copyoff/index.shtml

sounds like they've worked it all out, the explain (or at leat have an excuse) why you can't.

Researchers in Germany have developed a device for stripping HDCP from a digital video stream using an FPGA-based board that costs around 200 Euro (US$350) to build.

[ http://aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pm2011/pm00386.html.en ]

Great. Now our buddies at the MPAA are going to start lobbying to make FPGA programmers difficult to own or obtain legally, because they are now "implements of crime" or somesuch.

If that sounds ridiculous to you, remember how they did that exact same thing to Smart Card programmers when people figured out how to clone DirecTV cards.

I got a lovely email from amazon.com today telling me the good news: an album that I bought in 2005 has been added at no charge to my amazon.com download music library.

Gee, if I wanted those songs in MP3 format, dontcha think I would have ripped the CD by now?

It would be easy for me to rip CD tracks into MP3 as well, but the key is that Amazon doesn't know that. :P

What do you mean by "save space in the cloud" ? There is *infinite* space in the cloud. The cloud solves all problems and transcends all limitations.
Trust the Cloud. The Cloud is your friend. Not trusting the Cloud is treason, and treason is punishable by summary execution.

That's clouder talk!

Yeah. The hype is so intense at this point that it's actually devolved into personal attacks on people who still want to run things on their own hardware.
We're referred to as "server huggers"