# Is there a way to take songs from Youtube and burn them onto a cd?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 25, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-take-songs-from-youtube-and-burn-them-onto-a-cd/478683 "2008-12-25T23:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-take-songs-from-youtube-and-burn-them-onto-a-cd/478683/1 "2008-12-25T23:08:00Z")

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Thats the question in a nutshell. I want to know if there is any way I can burn the music from the youtube playlist onto a cd.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-take-songs-from-youtube-and-burn-them-onto-a-cd/478683/2 "2008-12-25T23:10:50Z")

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Not sure how to do it, but I suspect it would be illegal to do so, and therefore it would violate the rules of this MB to tell you how.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-take-songs-from-youtube-and-burn-them-onto-a-cd/478683/3 "2008-12-25T23:32:24Z")

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There are several programs that will “grab” the soundstream being sent to your PC’s speakers and allow you to save it as a wmv or mp3 file. Also some programs are designed specifically to grab youtube media outpit and save it.

Beyond legalities the main reason you should not do this is simply that youtube audio quality is quite bad and will sound terrible on an audo CD played on a decent sound system.

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-take-songs-from-youtube-and-burn-them-onto-a-cd/478683/4 "2008-12-26T00:07:29Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Not sure how to do it, but I suspect it would be illegal to do so, and therefore it would violate the rules of this MB to tell you how.

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Precisely.

Sorry, Rev.

Thread closed.

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