Monday, August 24, 2009

Youtube to mp3 conversion

Follow the easy steps below and you can convert any youtube video to mp3:

1. Download youtube video as .flv

2. use SUPER encoder to convert .flv file to .mp3


1. Download youtube video as .flv

a. go to http://keepvid.com/

b. paste your youtube url where it says "Enter URL of video page here - example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3V5a8mDTW6k" and press download button






c. when the download links are shown.. click the download link to download either as .flv or .mp4 file.



2. use SUPER encoder to convert .flv file to .mp3

a. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.



You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.

b. Drag and drop the flv file to the super encoder file list.

c. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the mp3 file saved in the same folder as the flv file!

Creative Zen Mp3 Mp4 player


Creative zen is a very good mp3 mp4 player.

I'l list some of the pros and cons over here

Pros:
-Good quality of audio and video playback
-good battery backup of upto 30 hours for audio and 5 hours for video
-has extendable memory card slot

Cons:
-can easily get scratches and fingerprints on the front panel and screen.
-the files stored in sd card does not have the normal features like playlist and albums.. they are just organised as directory heirarchy.