Tube Converting Is The New Downloading

Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board feature is from Caroline Marques who will clue us in on how many teens are finding a new way to download their favorite music [for free]. Remember you can contact our board directly via email at youthadvisoryboard at ypulse.com.

Teens downloading music online is still alive and well thanks to this technique: tube converting. This time it’s not through Limewire, but through something closer to home: YouTube or any online video site. Since YouTube is where most teens watch music videos, it makes sense. Sites like http://file2hd.com, www.vconversion.com and www.vixy.net are programs where you just type a URL and save the song. With a small chance of getting viruses, and the enormous choice of songs, many teens feel this method is easier and safer.

Here's how it works. To listen to a song on YouTube, there needs to be a video. You take the URL of that video to one of the sites I mentioned above, and convert it into an mp4 (ipod file), for example. Of course, downloading illegal music isn’t good, but it’s also something I don't think teenagers (and many adults) will ever stop doing. Teens may hesitate on the issue of it being illegal, but then they rationalize what they're doing by thinking that they’re just taking it from YouTube, so it’s okay.

I have heard of lots of people switching from Limewire to tube converting because it doesn’t crash your computer. The only flaw [besides it being illegal and the sound quality not being that great] people have discovered right now is the speed; you need to find a good, fast site. But you can download anything to anywhere: your computer, ipod, cell phone or even PSP. Teenagers love this, you just need to copy, paste and save…

About Caroline Marques (aka "Caro")

Caroline is a high school student in Geneva, Switzerland. While Caroline lists sports, music and travelling as her hobbies, she also very much enjoys writing and reading. After being a teen adviser for NickMag, she thought Ypulse would be the perfect opportunity for a new start. While trying to keep up with the trends (or setting some of her own), dance classes, working on long papers and trying to master three new languages, she rarely has time to write the novel she wishes she could finish, though she is certain one day she will. Writing is never far from her thoughts.

Categorized under: Music, Web, Youth Advisory Board

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