Tuesday, February 26, 2008

How To: Get Hard To Get MP*3

This is my first How-To. A general background first, I'm one music listener who's not totally concern over a superb quality of an MP*3 to enjoy the music. As long as the music is good enough, without any interruptions and clear enough to hear the entire song and lyrics, just like listening to the radio, then it's ok.

I acknowledge that the best place to get old songs (and new ones) is from You*Tube. You can search for really old songs from Abba, all the way to overseas songs that generally does not enter the international market (i.e. France FIFA 98 song, MYMP Philippine band songs).

So, how do we download You*Tube movies? The EASIEST way is to download the freeware RealAl*ternative (which is a free RealP*layer) which does not affect legality in anyway. By downloading that software, whenever you place your mouse pointer on the movie, a "Download This Video" tab comes up. Then just click on it and download. (See Picture below)





You can actually see the video just using RealAlternative instead of getting Freeware FL*V Viewer (but up to your taste actually).



Next software to download is the Freeware FL*VExtract (searchable on goo*gle), downloadable at http://www.moitah.net/. Also free since it's Open Source, so no legalities issue to have the software. When you run this software, the window below appears.

You can click what to extract, so since this post talks about extracting MP*3, just tick on Audio, and then drag and drop the file onto the window. Straight away the MP*3 will be extracted into the same folder as the file.

Bear in mind that the MP*3 will be about 1.5MB (compared to a good quality at 5MB). For me, to have it in the phone to listen during leisure moment is good enough. Quality is not a major factor as long as it's listen-able.

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