converting YT videos to MP3 files

I'm starting to learn chopping samples. Need a few specific tracks. Does anyone know a safe easy way to convert YT videos to MP3 files?

Lots of Online Converters...but you run the risk of Viruses and things. Easiest way for me is just Sample YT directly into the MPC. Treat YT like an Endless Vinyl Dig lol

40Beatz wrote:Lots of Online Converters...but you run the risk of Viruses and things. Easiest way for me is just Sample YT directly into the MPC. Treat YT like an Endless Vinyl Dig lol

Thanks! didn't realize that was an option! If you have any pointers on how I can pull that off, I'd be real grateful. Thanks again!

You could also use a virtual audio device like soundflower (or whatever the PC equivalent is) - set your computer audio to output via soundflower and set your MPC (in controller mode) to record from soundflower.

Converting with one of these online convertors is going to be quicker, but make sure they are not further compressing the audio (the audio within the video is already possibly heavily compressed). See if you can find one that is either just yanking the audio stream direct, or one that converts to a lossless format.

Although I suspect given the source material (compressed online video), high audio fidelity is unlikely to be your number 1 priority!

40Beatz wrote:Lots of Online Converters...but you run the risk of Viruses and things. Easiest way for me is just Sample YT directly into the MPC. Treat YT like an Endless Vinyl Dig lol

Yoooo I just found out how to do this! haha! You're right man- I cut out the middle man here. Thank you!

I use a small length RCA cable, plus the iPhone lightning connector to connect my iPhone to the MPC. If you have an Android phone, you can make do with just the cable.
Samples. Anytime, anywhere!

I do the iPhone to lightning thing with a 1/8” to 1/4” stereo TRS cable I bought off Amazon. This works really well. It’s also fun for using your iPhone as an on-the-go mic. Record into Voice Memos using the built in mic and then play it back into the MPC to sample.

My kids love it when I sample them singing random stuff, and then pull it into the MPC to make funny beats with.

Looks like there are a bunch of free apps for live micing the iPhone too… gonna give this a try later

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microphon ... 1070812067

The Geekersoft free YouTube to MP3 I'm using is very simple, just paste a YouTube address and you can convert it to MP3.

https://www.geekersoft.com/youtube-to-mp3.html

Samjax wrote:The Geekersoft free YouTube to MP3 I'm using is very simple, just paste a YouTube address and you can convert it to MP3.

https://www.geekersoft.com/youtube-to-mp3.html

Or you could just... you know.. SAMPLE... on your MPC sampler.

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I just run it thru a mixer into my MPC.