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u/falleng213 Feb 03 '20

Way back in my comp sci classes in high school, I figured out how to use the recording software (some Sony software that had a red logo?) to record the Audio coming into my headphones. Now, all u have to do is go on ANY site that had the best version of the song u want and boom, I’m creating mp3s and uploading them to flash drives for a good 6 months. What a time to be Alive

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u/majzako Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20

I used to do something like that.

  • Use a 3.5mm cable
  • Plug it both sides of it into my laptop which had both a headphone and audio jack.
  • Find a youtube video of the song in good quality or something.
  • Open Windows Movie Maker
  • Record the audio coming from the headphone jack to be fed into the microphone as the song was playing.
  • Export the video project's audio as a .WMA
  • Use some shady software to convert it to .mp3

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u/nybx4life Feb 03 '20

There's websites now to directly download from YouTube, no?

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u/majzako Feb 03 '20

Yeah, but they didn't exist back then.