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How to download Videos from YouTube and turn them into Mp3s--For Free

on Thursday, 05 June 2008. Posted in Tech Tips Hits 4345

This post is the first in a new weekly series entitle "tech tips" which will be available in the "Blog" section of Joeprah under the "Tech Tips" menu item. I will post anything that I find that helps me hack through common tech issues that I encounter as a blogger and a user of technology in the 21st century. I will label each post based on its ease of use for the average internet surfer. What we have today is a free way to get music from YouTube videos. Even if you are tech-tarded you can get this done as long as you follow the following steps below.

Level of Tech Difficulty: 2 (You Need to Be Able to Read this Post, Navigate the Internet and Your Computer and Click on Things)

Downloading Music for free From YouTube

Getting the Video :

Turn on Computer & Internet
Find YouTube video that contains a song you want
Copy the link here: http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/
Once prompted begin download of youtube video
Find the YouTube video in your computers download section or folder you use to DL files and rename the video to the name of the song with the .flv ending

Converting the .flv Video into an Mp3 still free:

To Convert .flv file into a Mp3 use Freez FLV to Mp3 Converter (It is free)
Link to the download for the free file converter is here: http://www.smallvideosoft.com/downloads/freez_flv2mp3.exe
Find the .flv file in your computer and add it to the converter
Click Start Converting
The video is quickly converted into an Mp3 file and stored in a folder of your liking (the default folder is Mp3 Output)
You are done

You now have a free music file that may or may not be of the highest quality, but it is the cheapest price around. Recognize. The better the quality of sound you hear when you watch the video initially at YouTube will give you an indicator of the quality of the forthcoming Mp3. Why use this format instead of "Limewire" and the others? Two reasons:

I don't see how this can be traced in anyway at all by media mogule fat cats
Some Songs on YouTube I have found there and NOWHERE ELSE, right Melisa?

Another great file converter to look into is Tunebite, but that one costs $30. There are a ton of reasons to get that converter if you mess around with files of many different formats and want to convert them back and forth. Best thing I have found so far. But, free is always better, right?

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