Apple iTunes Tip of The Day -- Nothing To Do With The Bakken

Earlier I mentioned Apple's upgrading of iTunes, now iTunes 11.

This has nothing to do with iTunes per se, but some folks might be interested. Years ago, it was a pain to convert a YouTube video to an MP3 audio. Now it is so easy, a caveman can do it. Again, this will convert the video to an audio only: after conversion you will have the audio (generally, a song) in your iTunes inventory, but not the video.

This is how you do it.

First, bring up this site, "converting YouTube to MP3."

Then, in a different window, open the YouTube video you want to convert.

Third, copy the URL of that YouTube video -- the "http://......" at the top of the browser.

Fourth, paste that URL in the second long box at the "converting" site.

Fifth, click on "Convert Video." The conversion is instantaneous. You will not see anything happening, except for the next screen with a rectangular light green box pop up, and it happens so quickly, you may not even notice it.

Now, this is the tricky part. One would think that you are done. NOT! You have successfully converted it, but to get it on your computer, you need to "download" it.

To download it, in the top rectangular light green box, click on "download."

From there, computers and operating systems will vary. You might have to search where your computer/operating system places/saves/downloads things. For the current Apple operating system, downloads are placed/saved/downloaded in the area called "Downloads" which is found in the "hard drive icon" on the desktop. Click on that, click on "downloads," and move your newly converted video/MP3 song to iTunes. It will show up at the bottom of your iTune list, in alphabetical order with other converted YouTube videos.