Could anyone please recommend a (legal!) website that will enable me to download a piece of music from you tube and convert it into MP3. There are lots on Google but am a bit wary!
Alternatively, does anyone have an instrumental version of Jai ho please. itunes don't have any purely instrumental music of it and it is needed for a gymnastics competition my dd is doing. Apparently they don't like vocals on the music!
It's a bit ironic you want a piece of legal software to illegally download the music. In most cases, the software is not illegal - it's what you do with it. Even if you spend the pence to download it from itunes, strictly speaking playing it in public is breaking the itunes download rules.
Depending on the people running the competition, they may have done it properly and covered PRS and PPL but many just turn a blind eye (or should that be ear?)
The danger of downloading these things from the net is more to do with virus issues than copyright.
If you download from itunes, at least you can claim you tried to pay for it, and maybe just claim you thought it covered you.
In this particular case, personally, I'd download the music from the source suggested and give it to the organisers. If they don't know they should pay, or are indeed paying - it's not really your responsibility - because PRS/PPL don't actually have a system setup where an individual can clear something in a bigger event in a proper venue. If for some reason you wanted to use a particular track in a theatre, for instance, the venue normally have the license, so they can't really issue you with a license to use it, because then it would be done twice! Rather silly - but the organisers should have worked this one out - so a little 'ignorance' is probably the best move.
Feel like I have opened up a can of worms here!! Thanks so much for all the comments and help. Not sure what we are going to do, bit put off using that music now so may get something from the gym teacher instead.
TBH Tappingmum that music would be identical, legally; it's the people who are playing it publicly that are at risk not you; especially if you buy it 'legally' eg pay for it from a proper shop
Have you seen those little signs in dentist surgeries (for example) which say they can have the radio on or play CDs; it's the same sort of issue
At least that is how I understand it (I may be wrong)
Does any one know how you convert files on Vimeo. We have just been sent a link to a trailer for a film dd did last year, but she has several films on vimeo that we would like to store seperately too. I use Zamzar for u tube but it keeps telling me 'file has no extension' when I put in the URL address?
I sorted it now, it's very simple, I googled it and there is a demo on u-tube ironically!
It's very simple. If you scrole down the page below the viewing figures on the right, there is a link to down load. If it goes straight to viewing it, you have to right click and save as..
Thank you, we have the track now which has been paid for (thanks for the Tesco link katymac) and we will just run with it. There have never been any issues with dancing comps so hopefully this will be the same x
