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HOW TO DOWNLOAD MUSIC ONTO A MACBOOK?

Please help, I'm a bit...technologically challenged.

I make YouTube videos and I want to have instrumentals in the background. Whenever I try to download a song from a website just a white box with a bunch writing pops up and I can't find how to even listen to it on my computer. I have a Macbook Pro if that makes a difference, thanks for any help you can give me!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Hello, Megan:)

    Here is the trouble with this type of question. The only way we can test what is wrong is if you reveal the website. The moment you reveal a pirate website, it becomes a violation of Yahoo Answers guidelines ("no illegal activity"). Do you see the problem? Go to any site that has free-for-personal-use stuff, or use GarageBand to compose your own music.

    If you arrange a way to make money from your Youtube video (from ads or any other way), you instantly fall outside the fare use provision for almost all "free-for-personal-use" music, so you need to compose it yourself to use it for profit.

    See the second link below, and read this....

    "Respect copyright. Only upload videos that you made or that you are authorized to use. This means don't upload videos you didn't make, or use content in your videos that someone else owns the copyright to, such as music tracks, snippets of copyrighted programs, or videos made by other users, without necessary authorizations. Read our Copyright Tips for more information."

    A popular response to this is "But everybody does it." Well, a few of "everybody" land in prison. Call it a reverse lottery. Better not to buy a ticket.

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