Songs not available anywhere BUT Youtube?

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camarofleet

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I think I've seen similar on these threads. This weekend's wedding has a few "special songs" (first dance etc.) that are not available for purchase anywhere to my knowledge. The bride sent Youtube links. It appears these might be sirius/xm proprietary acoustic versions of stuff unavailable on the main sites. Has anyone run into this? If so, how are you handling?

One example is "Chris Cornell - Nothing Compares To You" (Acoustic, non-live)
 
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what's the problem with using the youtube version.
Generally speaking, I find these files to be of inferior quality and am unsure of the legality - I'd rather just purchase when available. Although I'm typically not one of those types to cry out "Support the Artist", illegal downloading does hurt us Djs too.

For the few times it was necessary, downloaded it from YouTube ...
What downloader do you use?
 
I think I've seen similar on these threads. This weekend's wedding has a few "special songs" (first dance etc.) that are not available for purchase anywhere to my knowledge. The bride sent Youtube links. It appears these might be sirius/xm proprietary acoustic versions of stuff unavailable on the main sites. Has anyone run into this? If so, how are you handling?

One example is "Chris Cornell - Nothing Compares To You" (Acoustic, non-live)
You need these special songs for when?

what's the problem with using the youtube version.
What's NOT the problem!
 
I’ve used YouTube versions when I couldn’t find the tracks anyplace else. I don’t do weddings, so I don’t get requests like that very often. Some YouTube tracks are not the best quality, but if that’s all you can get, ya gotta go for it.


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I download from youtube all the time. Nothing new...

The quality from youtube has gotten a lot better and more than acceptable these days.

There are plenty of converters out there.
 
When there Are remade songs that are only on YouTube, chances are they were never licensed versions of these songs to begin with, so technically you are not “stealing”, since their not given permission to be profited off of from iTunes or anything. Anyways, I get these from time to time, More often than not for a first dance. I’m not gonna tell a bride and groom that I wont play their dream first dance, when the song can technically be obtained and they know it.
 
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Is it OK to play a song from YouTube while working instead of downloading the song from YouTube? I thought that they blocked people from downloading a song from YouTube?
 
I've got no problem using YouTube if it is not available anyplace else, but I do not use a down-loader. I use Audacity.

First I filter for any possible HD video versions of the song. 720p and 1080p supports higher quality audio if it was uploaded that way.
Open Audacity. Then, while the YouTube video is playing, start recording (using internal line). Carefully adjusting levels, usually to -3db.
Once recorded, convert to mp3 with Audacity's added on Lame converter. Sounds good!
 
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I've got no problem using YouTube if it is not available anyplace else, but I do not use a down-loader. I use Audacity.

First I filter for any possible HD video versions of the song. 720p and 1080p supports higher quality audio if it was uploaded that way.
Open Audacity. Then, while the YouTube video is playing, start recording (using internal line). Carefully adjusting levels, usually to -3db.
Once recorded, convert to mp3 with Audacity's added on Lame converter. Sounds good!


Why all that work when a converter will record the highest possible quality.
 
Why all that work when a converter will record the highest possible quality.
You had to ask, didn't you!

Joe Arroyo - Mambo Yo Yo. Done with a YouTube to mp3 downloader, at the (your words) highest possible quality. This is the file opened in Audacity - the red is clipping.

JoeArroyo.jpg

Sure it's a high bit rate, but it was converted at way too high a level, the peaks are all clipped. This is all too common with the auto down-loaders, and is akin to polishing a pig or sterilizing a garbage can. You can hear the difference - a uniformly loud, life less, dead sound with no dynamic range - it is probably the major sonic criticism of those who frequently source YouTube for music. Recording directly to Audacity gives you control over this, and it's really not work, since you need to listen to the whole song anyways.
 
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I once had a bride tell me she wanted some Lithuanian music at her wedding. She promised to get me CDs well before the wedding. Despite prodding, that never happened. During cocktail hour, she apologizes for not getting back tom me and then writes the name of the two songs she wanted on a napkin and asks me to do my best. None of the standard digital music sites (iTunes, Amazon, etc) had these songs. YouTube was my only solution. Sound quality was iffy at best but the bride and her family went nuts when I played them. They were pretty impressed that I was able to find the songs during cocktails too.