Making an mp3 from a Youtube video

March 8, 2009 6:05 PM

I'm trying to make a high quality mp3 of the first 3:41 of this yt video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz-x7YMVCk

I have bass-increasing headphones and in them the song sounds great. But the mp3 I made is missing all of that. I tried to use audacity and acid to make mp3s of this video that sound good - capture the bass and the song in general. I can't do it without it sounding 'quiet' or alternatively, clipping. Can someone get me a high quality mp3 of this video of Red doing his live beatboxing?

My email's in my profile.

posted by cashman to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Best answer: Here's the AAC audio that I extracted directly from the high quality version on YouTube. Convert it to MP3 if you require, but each successive encoding generation will result in quality loss.
posted by zsazsa at 6:24 PM on March 8, 2009

Best answer: I've had good results using Audio Hijack Pro to record streaming music.
posted by spockette at 6:26 PM on March 8, 2009 [1 favorite]

Well shit zsazsa, that was just a downright nice thing to do.
posted by baphomet at 6:32 PM on March 8, 2009

Response by poster: Thank you both!! I'll try it out soon.
posted by cashman at 6:56 PM on March 8, 2009

FWIW, there's this too.
posted by jluce50 at 8:01 AM on March 9, 2009