Buy Mp3 for Transcribe program

[angelakis]

Hi community,
I am using the transcribe program. And i wanted to ask where do you find Mp3 songs or other format to buy for using it with the transcribe program. Thanks!

[mattswain]

I’m not a Transcribe user but if it uses standard MP3 files then any source that doesn’t add any sort of DRM (digital rights management) on to them should be fine.

All of my devices are Apple so I buy my music from the iTunes Store which is free of DRM and I then load them into Moises for the purpose of learning the songs.

If you’re an Android/Windows user then perhaps the iTunes Store is less convenient

[jjw]

See here:

What software do you use for transcription?

There are apps and web sites that convert youtube videos to mp3 files that you download to your computer and can be input to software like Transcribe!. You needn’t record with Audacity. I think Toby mentioned something about this earlier in this thread. You can also google something like “download mp3 from youtube” and you should find some sites that do this. (Some can be kind of sketchy, though.)

[angelakis]

@jjw Is this legal? Because things became very tough nowadays. The results of the piracy!

@mattswain I am an android user. I don’t know if i can use iTunes. Is Apple music and ITunes the same? Cause i am searching for iTunes in play store and i can only find Apple music.

[mattswain]

You’re probably out of luck for the iTunes Store on Android in that case. Apple Music is the subscription service (like Spotify) and is only streaming so that’s not what you need

[jjw]

@angelakis

Is this legal?

I don’t know, but I suspect it’s not legal.

[jjw]

@angelakis

I am an android user.

Maybe Amazon Music?

[angelakis]

Yes! I forgot that! Thanks

[Ontime]

@angelakis

Is this legal?

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[mathsjunky]

I’ve purchased Apple downloads for this purpose in the past, sometimes they are DRM free, but sometimes I’ve been stung and can’t use them.
These days if I’m transcribing something I’ll often just use the ‘Voice Memo’ app on my phone to literally record the sound of my laptop streaming, then load that into Transcribe!

The quality is of course not great, but I usually find it sufficient to transcribe from.

[JohnnyW]

A couple of years ago when I had nothing better to do (except play guitar) I ripped my CD collection to a NAS server saving them all in FLAC format. This library was then available to stream to various playback devices around the home. I used dbPowerAmp for the copying/conversion. Any of those tracks can then be made available to Transcribe.
For anything I don’t own I purchase the track through the iTunes Store.

[angelakis]

Thanks a lot @mathsjunky I will try that definitely to see the results. I hope this will work