It appears that YouTube has (since midnight last night) made some sort of change in the way that they stream video, so that the Firefox add-on, Net Video Hunter, that I use to download videos from that site, no longer works. My procedure was to download the video, use the conversion utility Switch to extract the audio, then normalize the gain and add MP3 tags. Until Net Video Hunter comes out with an update to restore functionality or I find another download utility that will work, I'll have to record the audio while the YouTube video plays.
Not a huge problem for 30 minute shows, but now and then I download documentaries from YouTube that are an hour or even two hours long. The downside is that I cannot do any audio editing (e.g., of the Jones show) while I'm recording audio from YouTube. This will make things take longer until I find a better fix.
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search for "youtube file hack" i use version 2.3, when i googled, i saw they have 2.4 that is how I get coast to coast since demonoid went down.
How do you normalize? i too use switch to get the mp3, but dont know how to normalize the audio.
Hope this helps
Sean
Thanks, I will definitely check it out. As for normalizing the gain, I have always used MP3Gain. It analyzes and losslessly adjusts mp3 files to a specified target volume.
It does not simply do peak amplitude normalization. Instead, it performs statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3gain/
You can still use JDownloader to download the mp3 audio from Youtube directly. Just give it the youtube URL and it gives you download links for all versions of the video and a separate audio link. It's great!
I download video from Youtube using Download Helper add-on for Firefox. Been using it for years, it's great for any site that has audio/video.
I use a firefox addon called DownloadHelper and it still works fine.
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