Any Way to Record Audio from You Tube Into Mixcraft?

GaryR55 · Post by **GaryR55** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:03 am

I'd like to record a portion of the audio from a You Tube video as its playing. Is there a way to set up Mixcraft 4 so this can be achieved? My attempts, so far have resulted in nothing being recorded at all. Before you suggest an alternative like Freecorder, let me assure you I've tried that, too, with the same results.

Gary

YouTube · Post by **Acoustica Greg** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:06 pm

Hi,

It depends on your sound card. If your sound card has an option like "What U Hear," "Digital Wave," "Stereo Mix" or something similar, you can record any audio that is coming out of your computer speakers. Of course, you'd also be recording any other Windows sounds that are being played.

The problem is that a lot of the new integrated sound cards in computers these days don't offer an option like that.

Greg

GaryR55 · Post by **GaryR55** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:50 pm

Thanks, Greg. What I have is a Realtek AC 97 and I'm using ASIO4All as my driver. I don't think I have any options such as you've described.

Gary

Stef66 · Post by **Stef66** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:28 pm

aaaah.... those were the good old days old solid state PCI sound card components.... not youre modern USB interface thing...

*note to self*
"Do not upgrade computer, stay with your Sound Blaster Audigy II ZS card and old Pentium 4 running Win XP SP3 rig".

teljax · Post by **teljax** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:46 pm

I use AR Wizard for recording audio streams from the internet. The demo will give you 3 minutes of recording time. only $25
http://www.nowsmart.com/

GaryR55 · Post by **GaryR55** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:07 pm

Thanks, Teljax! I'll give it a shot.

Er,...on second thought, it appears it only runs under Vista. I'm using XP.

Gary

teljax · Post by **teljax** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:30 pm

they have both versions, one for xp and another for vista...take another look

CADru · Post by **CADru** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:41 pm

Checkout Media Catcher and other cool capture tools from Applian:

http://www.applian.com/

nima · Post by **nima** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:56 pm

get audacity

GaryR55 · Post by **GaryR55** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:13 pm

Cadru, I downloaded, installed and tried Media Catcher on a You Tube video, but I can't find the file it supposedly created. Where does MC save the FLV files to?

Gary

CADru · Post by **CADru** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:06 am

From the MC menu: Tools > Open Storage Directory

GaryR55 · Post by **GaryR55** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:50 pm

Thanks. I didn't find anything in the folder, which turned out to be the My Recordings folder, by the way. Maybe it didn't record anything?

Gary

CADru · Post by **CADru** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:53 pm

If your running in demo mode might be some limitations.

Anyway, once you locate the video you want to record, stop the playback. Run MC and start the recorder. Then refresh your browser, this refresh should re-start the video from the beginning and MC should grab the stream.

GaryR55 · Post by **GaryR55** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:19 pm

That's what I was thinking; i.e., it's a limitation of demo mode.

Gary

CADru · Post by **CADru** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:27 am

Send me the You Tube URL and I'll try this on my end