Music Downloading

Over the years I have gotten away from downloading music with those Peer to peer sites such as Napster etc.. and I've been downloading most of my Music from Itunes. At 99cents a song...it's not worth the trouble.
But you get some of those songs that you like and are not listed on Itunes..
Last night I found a song from a band on youtube that wasn't listed on itunes... the sound wasn't all that good since it was a filmed in an open air concert...then I found a TV show they had made with direct sound from the mixer, six songs with excellent quality sound so the only thing I had to do would be to rip the sound track.
Well Youtube is equipped to do that for you........ --
The only thing left to do was to take that large MP3 file and cut it into separate songs. Well there is this nice little program called MP3Direct cut that I have been using for years. You can find it at........ --
You can cut the songs you want, add ID3 tags so the song name will show up on your player and it will also normalise the volume.
I have a couple of thousand songs in my collection that I normalised that way way back when..

Warning.....this is not for the lazy...

Great post.

There are some live bootlegs I wouldn't mind ripping.

For bootleg videos...If not on my PC...I put them on and use a free program called (Super C) from Eightsoft.
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It gets tricky to get to the SetUp file....you seem to go through three pages of a lot of instructions and advertizing to finaly get that setup file.
But I find it a very good program for converting just about everything to anything. And it will rip the sound track from a movie, by using the convert audio only.

I was doing something similar using--which is free, but it is still in beta for Win 7 and cannot handle HDMI output. Otherwise I used -- and then ripped the audio with Audacity and saved as an mp3. Also not for the lazy. LOL.