Have you ever tuned into one of YouTube live streams? When you can't decide what to listen or what to watch, what you could do is click on one of many YouTube live streams and then just enjoy! It's like watching TV or listening to radio on YouTube!
If you are a music lover, then there are a number of live music streams on YouTube, varying across many genres. Trust me, they are so much better than traditional radio. Best music quality, Nonstop and most of all, no ads! Just music, music and music. I'm sure many of you have listened to one of those streams at least once in your lifetime.
But have you ever felt like what if you could have recorded one of those streams so you could listen to them later, or when you are not online? Well, everyone knows how to download YouTube videos. But only a handful knows how to "download" YouTube streams. Technically, they cannot be downloaded since those streams don't have a beginning or an end, so the usual YouTube download apps have a hard time figuring out what to download.
What we can do is capture the stream, as it lively goes on. To do that we need special software. For this time, I'll tell you how to capture the audio part. On a later post, I will tell you about capturing video. There are many software available on the internet but let's go for the one that's available for the best price in the world, FREE! It's called Audacity. You can download it from its official website.
DOWNLOAD AUDACITY
Then install it. It's easy peasy. Then comes the (little bit) difficult part. Before anything, you may have to import some library into Audacity, which helps us to export our content as a MP3. Otherwise, you will end up with a big, by big I mean pretty BIG WAV file. No body wants that. MP3 is more than enough.
First you need to download the necessary DLL from Internet, unless you have it already.
DOWNLOAD LAME ENCODER LIBRARY
Extract the downloaded ZIP file, then import it into Audacity. To do that, open Audacity, then goto,
VIEW (1) → PREFERENCES (2) → LIBRARIES (3) → DOWNLOAD (4)
Then click LOCATE and select the "lame_enc.dll" from the file browser. After that, you may restart audacity. Then
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