Okay, this is great. This morning at work we were talking about YouTube videos, and then cell phone ringtones, and we got the awesome idea — let’s make some ringtones from YouTube videos! Sweet!
So I downloaded the incomparable video Charlie the Unicorn, used audacity to cut out the Candy Mountain song, and then uploaded it to my cell phone with Bluetooth using my co-worker’s Mac. Freaking right on.
It’s a mecca of love, the candy cave!
Okay, so if you wanna know the technical details, here’s specifically what I did:
Download the youtube video using youtube-dl:
$ youtube-dl -b -t “http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus”
Extract the audio to WAV format using MPlayer:
$ mplayer charlie_the_unicorn-Q5im0Ssyyus.mp4 -ao pcm:file=candy_mountain.wav
Edit the WAV file with Audacity, select the song portion, and export it to MP3 with a64 kbps bitrate. The start point was 2:26 and it’s 42 seconds in length
$ audacity candy_mountain.wav
And that was it! Instant ringtone goodness. 🙂 Here’s the MP3.
Thanks for the hook-up. I’ve been trying to find the Charlie, Charlie, Charlie part for months, but haven’t been able. Great quality on the cut. It finally got me to get rid of my Robert Goulet Ring tone from SNL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!