So, I made a radio bumper for ds106 radio out of an episode of star trek tng and a song and the google translator voice.
(Also, incidentally, I just added the wp audioplayer plugin to get that thing above this)
I think there is an easier way to grab audio from a youtube video, or at least there used to be, but I ran it out of the headphone jack on my laptop and through a usb pre-amp and recorded it into adobe audition (My preferred audio editor. could have used any audio editing program, audacity, etc.). The episode is “Force of Nature”
I added the rockin’ heavy distorted beginning of Broken Water‘s “Say What’s on Your Mind.”
I also used google translator‘s voice option for the ds106 station identification.
Fun tip: you can use the link below and add whatever you want it to say to the end, using a + to separate each word, then email the link to yourself and download the file as an mp3. (eg. http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=Jim+Groom,+What+Jim+Groom?+Jim+Groom+Jim+Groom )
Love the bumper! Great job with the distortion field. You are right, there is software that can capture the audio coming from your speakers. I use Wiretap on the Mac and I am sure there are PC options but your solution certainly worked!
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Ha, yeah there used to be a website that would just take the audio from youtube videos and let you download them as mp3s, but that’s obviously a copyright infringement disaster, so it’s no surprise that I can’t find that website anymore.
For PC Users Trying to Do What I Did, But with Less Cables:
I actually found a way to record “what you hear” in audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) Download it. It’s free. I’m running vista (sadly), so I had to take a few more steps than normal, but it worked out alright. This blog post helped fix the issue I was having with vistas input/microphone: http://gecsoft.blogspot.com/2008/07/audacity-missing-what-you-hear_11.html
though, their final conclusion is to reinstall xp…
Of note: You don’t have to blast your speakers to get the recorded audio to be loud enough. Just turn up the gain on the track.
So if you aren’t lucky enough to have a pre-amp and male to male cables and what not, audacity is just as good.
Strong stuff.
Did you add this to #ds106radio yet? Also, you owe me a design assignment don’t you?