The Reaping (reap the sound from Youtube)

[Napoez3]

A lot of people are complaining because they don't like the Youtube show. They prefer the podcast format. For all thous people, you have this little website:

http://snipmp3.com/

This site will reap the audio from any Youtube video and download locally to your PC. You only have to give permission to a java applet and to the download.


Step by step:

First, you copy the url of the video you want to reap in the site:
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Then your internet browser will ask you if you want to let Java run (run it):
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After a few seconds the site will show you the title of the video and the download options, normally you'll only have MP3, but some times you'll see flac and other formats:
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Finally, you only have to chose where do you want to save the file.


(This will count as one person watching the video.)


I tested this using Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows 7 and I didn't have any security problems, but remember DO NOT CLICK ANY FLASH BANNERS!

[Veronica, Supreme Sword]

Well... I don't think people are complaining that they don't like the YouTube show, they just don't like that they can't download it.

[Jane]

They had better not be complaining or else!! can I use my librarian authority to tell off all those who complain?!! jk :P

[Hai]

Jane wrote: "They had better not be complaining or else!! can I use my librarian authority to tell off all those who complain?!! jk :P"

never underestimate the power of someone wearing librarian glasses saying "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

[David Sven]

Has no one heard of "Youtube downloader?" Google it.Downloads anything from youtube and even converts it to ipad/iphone or avi/mp4.

[Hai]

also. i'm not sure if this is allowed by youtube or not, but...

(view spoiler)[there are a couple sites that can copy the .flv format of a youtube video, and save it to your computer, which you can use a video converter, such as roxio to change it to an .mp4 format. so you can put it on your mobile device. (hide spoiler)]

of course, why not just watch it on youtube on your mobile device in the first place?

[terpkristin]

Hai wrote: "of course, why not just watch it on youtube on your mobile device in the first place?"

Bandwidth and signal quality. I'm on a limited plan (2 GB a month which I never come close to hitting but I don't stream much of anything over 3G) so I'm always worried about overages. Also, where I work there is very little 3G signal, so even if I weren't worried about bandwidth, there is little chance I'd get signal to stream a show reliably.

[Aloha]

If you have a Mac, go under Activity and double click on the active and biggest file size under the Sword & Laser YouTube. The video will automatically download. Make sure you're not in the imbed mode, though.

[Aloha]

Here's a site that will download the YouTube for you. All you have to do is input the YouTube URL.

http://keepvid.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2F...

[Ryan]

I posted this elsewhere, but in case you need more help, Geekbeat covered this recently.

http://geekbeat.tv/how-to-download-an...

I use the Firefox add-on, and it lets you choose between many options for the format (although it doesn't seem to work on a few videos).

I definitely like the show, and I'm not complaining about it. But I know that if I can't put it on my ipod, I'll probably forget to watch it on a regular basis. The same for all the other (not as great as S&L, but still pretty great) Geek & Sundry shows.

One nice thing about the firefox add-on is that downloading with it does seem to register as a view on a youtube (at least it registers as "watched" on my subscriber page) - so for the sake of both ratings and ad-views, I don't think it hurts youtube or S&L/G&S.

[Robert]

Napoez3 wrote: "A lot of people are complaining because they don't like the Youtube show. They prefer the podcast format. For all thous people, you have this little website:

http://snipmp3.com/

This site will re..."

Thanks very much for the information. While I really like the idea of the video show, and watched the first one, I always listen to S&L while commuting - and that makes watching a video difficult AND illegal. So having a way to grab the videos as MP3s so I can listen to them while I'm driving is perfect.

[Joseph]

Myself, I'm kind of going in the other direction -- my new Blu-Ray player streams YouTube, so now I can watch the show on my TV instead of on my computer.