Burning An Audio CD From An Internet Video, On A Mac

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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. last step, I burn the MP3 file on to CD.

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

Installing The Software

I will use four pieces of free software:

  • I will use either the 4kvideodownloader or the youtube-dl 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.
  • When I decide that I need to edit the MP3 file before burning it, I use the audacity app to do that. There's a YouTube video on how to do this.
  • I use the Music app that came with my Mac to burn the CDs. If you have iTunes instead, you can use that. They are pretty much the same. There's a YouTube video on how to do this.

When you watch the 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.

To download 4kvideodownloader click on: https://4kdownload.com
To download audacity click on: https://audacityteam.org

These are the commands that you will use to install youtube-dl:

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

brew install wget

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

Downloading The Audio From An Internet Video

This video shows you how to use 4kvideodownloader or youtube-dl to download the audio from an internet video and save it as an MP3 file on your computer.

Editing The MP3 File

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 audacity app to edit my MP3 and fix them.

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.

Burning The MP3 File On CD

This video will show you how I use the Music app that is already on my Mac to burn MP3 files on to CD. If you have the iTunes app instead, you can use that. They are pretty much the same.