How to record audio from Youtube..instructions not working.

[drummerdan]

Hi I have a Dell Laptop with Win-xp. I have Aud 1.2.6. I just want to record some Audio
from a youtube video for learning some drum stuff. I found some instructions but they
don't jive up with what I see. It says on the dropdown menu the default is set to
Microphone and to set it to stereo. I don't find that dropdown at all that says
Microphone...can someone help me out please? thank you. dan the drummer man

[kozikowski]

That's a really bad way to do it. There are others.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recor ... e_computer

Everybody assumes that all computers can do this and that's not true. Some computers have these services left out and you have to use a money-based software product.

Koz

[steve]

An even better way to "record" audio from YouTube is to "download" it rather than "record" it.
There are several Add-Ons for Firefox that allow YouTube videos to be downloaded.
If you install Audacity 1.3.12 and FFMpeg you will be able to import the audio from downloaded YouTube MP4 files into Audacity. To get a "normal" audio file from Audacity you need to "Export" (File menu). To Export as MP3 you also need to install Lame, but note that exporting an MP3 file will be lower sound quality than exporting a WAV file.