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MP3s from Youtube

July 15, 2009 at 12:46 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I’ve been working with kids at school to make music videos as part of our activity week. Most of them brought me CDs to rip the music track off, but a few hadn’t got it with them. So youtube to the rescue!

First of all, the “All-in-one video bookmarklet” from 1024k.de to download an flv or an mp4. flv is best if you want an actual mp3 for Windows Movie Maker, because most flv videos have the audio already stored as mp3.

Now it’s downloaded, and since I’m on Ubuntu, I use ffmpeg to stream just the audio from the video – way faster than using the “nice gui” of vlc!

ffmpeg -i inputfile.flv -acodec copy output.mp3

It takes less than a second and gives a perfect mp3, dead easy.

(via ubuntuforums)

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July 14, 2009 at 11:08 am · Filed under Tweets

Sun and sports day – this term is ending nicely now!

July 10, 2009 at 9:38 am · Filed under Tweets

Just 2 ways to use su.pr with your WordPress blog – my addon for Twitter Tools http://www.jonrogers.co.uk/su-pr-for-wordpress-twitter-tools/ and the official plugin. Mine was first!

July 4, 2009 at 6:57 pm · Filed under Tweets

Su.pr URL shortening

July 1, 2009 at 10:46 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

I managed to get an invitation to the new Stumble Upon beta URL shortening service, su.pr via @tferriss. It is basically like bit.ly or is.gd but with the added bonus of giving data on clicks advice on posting. So I want to integrate it with the blog posting system I have here with WordPress and Twitter Tools. Thankfully, it uses a very similar API call to the bit.ly service that has already been integrated into Twitter Tools, so I’ve modified the script and I’m putting it on here. I’m still testing, see this as very much alpha software, but it may help you!

Read the info page or download it now.

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