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# I download the audio from the internet video and save it as an MP3 file on my computer.
 
# I download the audio from the internet video and save it as an MP3 file on my computer.
 
# If the audio is too long to fit on one CD, or if there are parts of the audio that I don't want to keep, I may decide that I want to edit the MP3 file before I burn it.
 
# If the audio is too long to fit on one CD, or if there are parts of the audio that I don't want to keep, I may decide that I want to edit the MP3 file before I burn it.
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# last step, I burn the MP3 file on to CD.
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# I burn the MP3 file on to CD.
  
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I have made four YouTube videos that show you how I do each of these things.
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I have made three YouTube videos that show you how I do each of these things.
  
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==Installing The Software==
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==Downloading Audio And Burning It To A CD - The Simple Example==
  
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I will use the following applications to do this:
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In this video I show you how to do this when everything goes easily.  The first app that we try works and is able to download the audio file.  The audio file is short enough to fit on one CD.  The audio doesn't need any clean-up, there are no long silences or other parts that need to be removed.
  
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* I will use either the <code>4kvideodownloader</code> or the <code>youtube-dl</code> app to download the audio MP3 file.  I need more than one app to do this because there isn't any single app that can handle every web site I want to download from.  Some web sites work with one app, others work with another.  I'll show you how this works in my YouTube video.
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In this video I use an app called <code>4kvideodownloader</code> to download the audio from an internet video and save it as an MP3 file on a Mac.  I then use Apple's <code>Music</code> (iTunes) app to burn the MP3 file to an audio CD.
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* When I decide that I need to edit the MP3 file before burning it, I use the <code>audacity</code> app to do that.  There's a YouTube video on how to do this.
 
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* I use the <code>Music</code> app that came with my Mac to burn the CDs.  If you have <code>iTunes</code> instead, you can use that.  They are pretty much the same.  There's a YouTube video on how to do this.
 
  
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When you watch the software installation YouTube video it will tell you to come to this web page and click on web site links here and copy and paste commands from here into the Terminal command line on your Mac.  The list of the things you'll click on, copy and paste follows.  Don't worry if this seems confusing right now.  Watch the video, I will show you exactly what you need to do.
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The first step in this video is to install the <code>4kvideodownloader</code> app.  I will use this link to download that app: <code>https://4kdownload.com</code>
  
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To download <code>4kvideodownloader</code> click on: <code>https://4kdownload.com</code>
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Watch the video:
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<br />To download <code>audacity</code> click on: <code>https://audacityteam.org</code>
 
  
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These are the commands that you will use to install <code>youtube-dl</code>:
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{{#ev:youtube|ZGGaTVMp1cI}}
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==What To Do When 4kvideodownloader Does Not Work - Installing And Using youtube-dl==
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Sometimes <code>4kvideodownloader</code> does not work with a particular web site or video.  In that case I try another app called <code>youtube-dl</code>.  It is harder to install, but easy to use once the install is done. 
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This video shows you how to install and use <code>youtube-dl</code>.  This installation process requires you to enter five commands.  The video will show you how to do this.  The video will tell you to come here to this wiki page and to copy and past the five commands from this page, one at a time.  The five commands are:
  
 
<code>ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL <nowiki>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"</nowiki></code>
 
<code>ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL <nowiki>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"</nowiki></code>
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<code>sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl</code>
 
<code>sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl</code>
  
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Watch the video:
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==Downloading The Audio From An Internet Video==
 
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This video shows you how to use <code>4kvideodownloader</code> or <code>youtube-dl</code> to download the audio from an internet video and save it as an MP3 file on your computer.
 
  
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==Editing The MP3 File==
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==What To Do When You Need To Edit The MP3 File - Using Audacity==
  
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A CD can only hold 90 minutes of audio. If your MP3 file is longer than 90 minutes, you will have to shorten it or split it into parts that can each fit on a CD.  There also may be chunks of dead air or other parts of the MP3 file that you don't want to put onto your CD.  When I have these problems I use the <code>audacity</code> app to edit my MP3 and fix them. 
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There are two things that might make you want to edit the MP3 audio file that you have downloaded before you burn it to CD:
  
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This video shows you how to edit an MP3 that you downloaded from the internet to prepare it for burning onto one or more CDs.
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# It's longer than 90 minutes and won't fit on 1 CD.  In this case you need to split the MP3 into two parts and burn each part onto its own CD.  I use an app called <code>Audacity</code> to split the MP3.
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# There are big blocks of silence or big gaps between songs that I want to remove.  I use the <code>Audacity</code> app to edit the MP3.
  
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==Burning The MP3 File On CD==
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This video will show you how to install and use <code>Audacity</code> to edit an MP3 before you burn it to CD. To download <code>Audacity</code> click on: <code>https://audacityteam.org</code>
  
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This video will show you how I use the <code>Music</code> app that is already on my Mac to burn MP3 files on to CD.  If you have the <code>iTunes</code> app instead, you can use that.  They are pretty much the same.
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Watch the video:
  
 
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Revision as of 15:00, 24 May 2020

Your goal is to make a CD of the music that is in a video that you found somewhere on the internet. You want to do this on a Mac and you want to use free software to do it.

I do this in two steps, or maybe three:

  1. I download the audio from the internet video and save it as an MP3 file on my computer.
  2. If the audio is too long to fit on one CD, or if there are parts of the audio that I don't want to keep, I may decide that I want to edit the MP3 file before I burn it.
  3. I burn the MP3 file on to CD.

I have made three YouTube videos that show you how I do each of these things.

Downloading Audio And Burning It To A CD - The Simple Example

In this video I show you how to do this when everything goes easily. The first app that we try works and is able to download the audio file. The audio file is short enough to fit on one CD. The audio doesn't need any clean-up, there are no long silences or other parts that need to be removed.

In this video I use an app called 4kvideodownloader to download the audio from an internet video and save it as an MP3 file on a Mac. I then use Apple's Music (iTunes) app to burn the MP3 file to an audio CD.

The first step in this video is to install the 4kvideodownloader app. I will use this link to download that app: https://4kdownload.com

Watch the video:

What To Do When 4kvideodownloader Does Not Work - Installing And Using youtube-dl

Sometimes 4kvideodownloader does not work with a particular web site or video. In that case I try another app called youtube-dl. It is harder to install, but easy to use once the install is done.

This video shows you how to install and use youtube-dl. This installation process requires you to enter five commands. The video will show you how to do this. The video will tell you to come here to this wiki page and to copy and past the five commands from this page, one at a time. The five commands are:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

brew install wget

brew install ffmpeg

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Watch the video:

What To Do When You Need To Edit The MP3 File - Using Audacity

There are two things that might make you want to edit the MP3 audio file that you have downloaded before you burn it to CD:

  1. It's longer than 90 minutes and won't fit on 1 CD. In this case you need to split the MP3 into two parts and burn each part onto its own CD. I use an app called Audacity to split the MP3.
  2. There are big blocks of silence or big gaps between songs that I want to remove. I use the Audacity app to edit the MP3.

This video will show you how to install and use Audacity to edit an MP3 before you burn it to CD. To download Audacity click on: https://audacityteam.org

Watch the video:

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