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not as easy as I'd have thought
Aug. 11th, 2015 12:43 pmWhat I thought computers should be capable of doing is capturing or downloading audio feed that the computer is playing. What I'm interested in is the sound portion of musical YouTube files.
But apparently this is very difficult to do.
1. I already have a program on my computer called Free Sound Recorder, which comes from here. You click a record button to start it. I clicked the button, started playing the YouTube file, and unclicked the button when it was done; I got a blank and soundless file. I checked the help files under "Recording Internet broadcasts (streaming audio)." It said, "Start the Sound Recorder and select the appropriate sound source." This is where I got stuck, because I could find no command for selecting the sound source. I need a help file for the help file.
2. The same company has another program called Audio Extractor. Perhaps that's what I want. I downloaded it, brushed away all the queries asking me to also load various malware, and got stuck at the registration stage, which refused to complete.
3. I tried a program called Streaming Audio Recorder, which comes from here. This was a bear to download, as the download kept shunting off into subsidiary downloads, one of which was called Microsoft .NET, and which got stuck several times, so I had to cancel and start over. But eventually it loaded, and the program works. You enter the URL and it siphons up a 20-minute sound file in about 2 minutes and deposits it as an MP3 on your computer. Terrific. Of course, I had to use my computer's Search for Files function to find where on my computer it had deposited it.
But then I discovered that, if I try to play one of the files, it merely crashes my computer's MP3 player. Other MP3 files, that I've ripped from CDs using a different program, do not crash the MP3 player.
Is there, like, a way you can actually do this simple task?
But apparently this is very difficult to do.
1. I already have a program on my computer called Free Sound Recorder, which comes from here. You click a record button to start it. I clicked the button, started playing the YouTube file, and unclicked the button when it was done; I got a blank and soundless file. I checked the help files under "Recording Internet broadcasts (streaming audio)." It said, "Start the Sound Recorder and select the appropriate sound source." This is where I got stuck, because I could find no command for selecting the sound source. I need a help file for the help file.
2. The same company has another program called Audio Extractor. Perhaps that's what I want. I downloaded it, brushed away all the queries asking me to also load various malware, and got stuck at the registration stage, which refused to complete.
3. I tried a program called Streaming Audio Recorder, which comes from here. This was a bear to download, as the download kept shunting off into subsidiary downloads, one of which was called Microsoft .NET, and which got stuck several times, so I had to cancel and start over. But eventually it loaded, and the program works. You enter the URL and it siphons up a 20-minute sound file in about 2 minutes and deposits it as an MP3 on your computer. Terrific. Of course, I had to use my computer's Search for Files function to find where on my computer it had deposited it.
But then I discovered that, if I try to play one of the files, it merely crashes my computer's MP3 player. Other MP3 files, that I've ripped from CDs using a different program, do not crash the MP3 player.
Is there, like, a way you can actually do this simple task?
