Getting audio from an existing youtube video

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I have a video of my grandson playing a trombone. I want to capture that audio and move it to Audacity for processing. I can manually put a recorder on my laptop and record to an .mp3 and then process, but I am wondering if there is a technique for doing this just using Audacity and the laptop. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Gary Donnelly
Hedgesville, WV

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from an existing youtube video…

…I have a video of my grandson playing a trombone.

Do you have a copy that’s not posted on YouTube or do you need to record from YouTube?

If you want to re-combine the audio & video you’ll need a video editor for that.

and record to an .mp3 and then process,

Don’t “work in” MP3. MP3 is lossy so you should minimize the number of times it’s compressed.

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The video is currently on a youtube video. You’re obviously correct about mp3. But I am just going to use it as a ring tone so great audio quality isn’t that importance is. Thanks for the response.

Gary Donnelly
Hedgesville, WV

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oops…i failed to answer your question properly. No, I do not have a non-youtube copy. Sorry …brain belch

Gary

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Use [u]WASAPI Loopback[/u] to record what’s playing on your computer.

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PERFECT! Many thanks. Some of the screen shots differ with the latest version of W-10, but not enough to not figure out what was happening.

Thanks again

Gary Donnelly
Hedgesville, WV