Ripping music from Youtube is a rookie move, and here’s a few reasons why:
1). Poor Sound Quality
It is well known but often ignored that the quality of tracks ripped from YouTube is poor. You may not hear it from your laptop speakers at home but the audience will hear it from the sound system. Poor audio quality seriously distracts and takes away from a performance and you won’t want to fall victim to that.
2). It’s Illegal
Ripping audio from YouTube is a violation of the site’s Terms of Service and federal law, if the content is copyrighted. Because of the illegal nature of most YouTube ripping sites and software you are putting your equipment at risk for viruses and other malware. It’s not worth it. Besides, downloading tracks this way hurts the music industry when we should be trying to build it.
3). Your Set Will Sound Sloppy
Coming back to sound quality, switching between ripped tracks and quality tracks is painful for your audience. This is where it will be most obvious that the track came from YouTube. Don’t embarrass yourself with this easily avoidable mistake.
4). It’s a Pain-in-the-Ass
This reason hits home with most DJs because your time is valuable. It is a pain to search for music on YouTube, copy the link, paste it into some other spammy, ad-cluttered site, only to have to then take the time to manually enter tag data in your DJ software for the track. Hell no. Stop it.
All of the above reasons aside, the fact remains that an experienced DJ turns to a record pool for downloading tracks, not YouTube. A record pool like ZIPDJ provides high quality tracks and true value in community and music curation. So, stop ripping music from YouTube, start downloading from ZIPDJ today.
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