my book of regrets // rants

how to rip music off of youtube; told by yours truly

okay, buckle up your seatbelt, motherfuckers, because I'm gonna learn you a thing or two about being cheap.

(this is for apple only, I don't know about you android people, sorry) alright, you need a computer or laptop, and the itunes application downloaded on your computer.

so get your song from youtube, I suggest not using music videos if they have things in between the music, use a lyric video, if you can find one. but basically copy the link to the video, and go to a youtube to mp3 converter website. I use youtube-mp3.org because it's self explanatory and easy to use.

so basically all you gotta do is paste the link to the video in to the website and it will strip the video of its audio, and when you click download, it will download to your computers file.

then, you go to itunes and there's this box thing in the corner

see that half black half grey box? click that. It should give you options

click Add to Library and find your audio by typing the name of the video into the search bar, or waste your time and scroll through your files to find it.

so when you click open, it should just pop in your music as the song/video title without artwork. If you care enough, you can make it look realistic by right clicking it and clicking "Get Info".

fill in all of that stuff, name, title, album, and then you can also download a picture from google images of the artwork and add that.

if you're downloading an entire album, you can add the track number to make it play in order. I did all of those details to make it look like I bought it off of itunes.

to get this on your phone, get your charger chord and plug it into your computer and plug your phone into it. so click the three dots and click "Add To"

it should show your phone name under "Devices"

give it a minute and it'll sync to your phone and voila.