Many assume online media converters - programmes that allow you to download streamed content from the internet - are inherently linked with internet piracy. While it’s true such services can be abused, in reality online YouTube converters and other, similar conversion applications offer a valid service to pro-legal music fans. With computer software developers and music industry professionals both taking advantage of technical advances, it’s becoming increasingly easy to preserve an artist’s work in various different formats.
Over the years we’ve dabbled with freeware for a variety of legitimate and legal reasons. Programs like Audacity and Freecorder used to offer an easy way of converting YouTube to MP3, allowing us to save audio from gig performances we’d recorded on our phone. Eventually, license limitations put both of these programs to bed, but it was too late to quench our thirst for more. As our business has grown, we’ve frequently found the need to match videos with audio files for advertising. Without wanting to invest loads of money in expensive sound recording equipment, YouTube downloaders and online YouTube converters offer an economic alternative.
Media file converters can also legitimately be used by artists who want to create an audio file from a video of a live performance uploaded to YouTube. For artists with no access to professional recording equipment on tour, this is especially useful. How many times have you attended a gig where the sound engineer’s hard work has translated to crystal clear acoustics – but the technique has been lost to the bowels of the crowd’s memory? It seems a shame to waste such talent and lose the moment to time. Thanks to YouTube downloader programs such as 2Conv, artists can also now rip audio from YouTube to MP3, forever preserving an audio file of even spontaneous on-stage work.
Using an application that converts media files online opens an artist or business up to a whole host of opportunities. With crowdfunding becoming more and more popular, artists can stream a live performance from the comfort of their own living room – and then rip YouTube to MP3 to sell the performance as a live recording later down the line. Official websites can be embellished with soundclips of on-stage banter; rare and backstage moments can be preserved without hassle; and even voicemail messages can punctuate other media interaction. All of this is thanks to online YouTube converters. With new technology available at the touch of a button and for free, there’s really no reason to avoid experimenting with multimedia online.
Thanks for a good read! Will give those Youtube downloaders a shot.
Interesting read! I am glad you use 2Conv too, it is an awesome free service, and extremely useful not just for music enthusiasts, but for professionals and the artists themselves as well!