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How to convert a YouTube video longer than 20 minutes to MP3

I recently found out that youtube has a tonne of really amazing audio books online.

In my quest to convert these audio books to mp3 files I soon realised almost none of the websites I had use would allow me to convert a VERY LONG youtube video into a mp3.  Most audio books are like 9+ hours!

I started thinking how would I be able to do this. I remembered I had installed an awesome piece of software called “Freemake Video Converter”. It would take videos on youtube and convert them into anything you wanted. I just couldn’t remember if it would do mp3’s.

I opened it up and found it DID!

Here’s the complete “how to convert a Youtube video longer than 20 minutes to MP3”!

  1. Make sure “Freemake Video Converter” is installed.
  2. Go to youtube and find the video you want to convert to MP3. Copy the URL at the top of the page
    1. I will use this link for my tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghA0I_MJFA
  3. In Freemake Video Converter Click “Paste URL”
  4. At the bottom click “To MP3”
  5. It will ask you a couple of things
    1. What bitrate you want
    2. Where you want to save the MP3
  6. For Audiobooks 128Kb/sec is fine. I told it to save to a folder on my computer.
  7. Viola. Sit back and let the program do the hard work!

 

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Windows 2012 – Study Notes

This pages will continue to grow as I finish studying for the Windows 2012 Exams. I will break the studying up into 46 sections.

01 – Windows Server Editions

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  1. 4 editions
  2. No 32bit editions
  3. Can switch between the Gui and Core
  4. No Itanium
  5. No standalone HPC Server. You can add it to other servers here as a package.

Foundation Server Edition

  • Scaled Down
    • limited to 15 users
  • Designed for small business file and print sharing
  • Simple dashboard
  • Physical server only (not virtual machine)

Essentials

  • 25 Users
  • 1 physical or Virtual Server
  • Defaults to Server Manager

Standard/Datacenter

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  • Contains all Windows Server 2012 Features
  • Standard
    • 2 Virtual Instances
  • Datacenter
    • Unlimited number of virtual Instances
    • Not available via Retail Channels.
  • Licensed per user (cal)

02 -New Features in 2012

Server Interfaces

There are now 3 interfaces:

  1. Core
  2. Minimal
  3. Full GUI

Windows 2008 made you specify the interface at install. You couldn’t change this option unless you re-installed. 2012 allows you to switch between the interfaces at any time however you do need to restart the server. You can do this by enabling or disabling the item in “features”. It is called “User Interfaces and Infrastructure”.

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Server Core

Roles Not available in Server core:

  • Active Directory Federation Services
  • Fax Server & Application Server
  • Network Policy & Access Services
  • Remote Desktop Services / Gateway / Session Host / Web Access
  • Volume Activation Services
  • Windows Deployment Services

The number of roles supported by Server core has increased:

  • 12 of the 19 roles are available to be used.
  • Only 9 were available in 2008
  • Only 10 were available in 2008R2

Server Core 2012

  • SQL Server is supported in Server core!
  • Server Manager has changed significantly
    • Provides access to most admin functions
  • Manage Pools of servers from Server Manager

Storage Spaces

This allows you to:

  • Combine several disks together.
  • They can be internal or external and SSD or Standard.
  • Allows you setup a large pool and then you can set it up into one or more virtual drives.
  • Supports Redundancy
  • Support Thin provision

Resilient FS (ReFS)

  • New Generation File System
  • Self Healing (reduces downtime by not needing to restart)

 

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How to make a Brisket in a Smoker

Rub Recipe

It is important to put salt on the meat about 24-48 before cooking. The Rub needs to be put on around an hour before cooking.

Makes. About half a cup

Preparation time. About 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon granulated white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon onion powder
  • 2 teaspoons mustard powder
  • 2 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 2 teaspoons chili or ancho powder
  • 1 teaspoon chipotle or cayenne powder

About the black pepper. Lately I’ve been grinding my black pepper and then sifting it. I use the coarse stuff, and put the fine stuff in a pepper shaker.

About the chile powders. I’m looking for complexity with two different flavors and two different levels of heat. Most American chili powders and ancho powders do not have a lot of heat, but good flavor. In fact, ancho is usually in a lot of American chili powders. Go with ancho if you can find it. It has a nice raisiny character. With chipotle or cayenne I’m after a kiss of heat. Chipotle has better flavor though.

Smoking Temperature

You want to smoke the meat to an internal temperature of 190-205.

Note: Many Pit masters swear 203 is the perfect temp.

Remember that at around 150-165 is called the “Stall”. It is at this point that the meat starts to “sweat”. Similar to humans, when we sweat it causes us to cool down. Unfortunately what this means for meat is that the meat will “stall” at a temp for a very long time. You will need to play around with meats to find out how long the stall is in your cooker. You can decrease the time of the stall by using the “Texas Crunch” which Pit masters can use butcher paper or tinfoil to let the rib cook in their own juices. It speed up the stall and keeps meat tender longer. It also helps break down any of the connective tissue.

You will want to inject Beef broth into the brisket and spray the outside with Apple juice/water.

If you use the Texas Crunch you will need to make sure you crisp up the bark “Outside dark layer” after unwrapping it. The “texas crunch” remove the “crunch” from the bark!

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FIX – The specified password for user account ‘root’ is not valid, or failed to connect to the database server.

Are you getting the error:

The specified password for user account 'root' is not valid, or failed to connect to the database server.

when you are trying to install WordPress via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer?

If you are 100% sure that you have the right password this post might help.

It would be in your best interest to try and log into the MySQL server using the root/password combo you think is correct. As long as you can login here the rest of the post will apply to you.

You can do this either through LanBench or MySQL command line.

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I will use the command line tool. It will ask you what the root password is right off the bat.

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If the password is correct you should see something similar.

The next thing you need to do is download and install the MySQL .NET Connector. Once you install the connector the install should proceed!

Good luck. I hope I helped you fix “The specified password for user account ‘root’ is not valid, or failed to connect to the database server.” error!

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FIX – Application pool cannot be deleted because it contains 1 applications.

Are you getting the error message: There was an error while performing this operation. Details: Application pool “<name>” cannot be deleted because it contains 1 applications?

The only way I could figure out how to delete it was using Powershell.

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Here are the Powershell commands:

  1. import-module WebAdministration
  2. iis:
  3. ls *optional* This just shows you the AppPools folder exists
  4. cd AppPools
  5. dir
  6. del *name_of_Web_Pool*
  7. Will ask you if you really do want to remove the App Pool. “Hit A for “Yes to all”.
  8. ls – This will allow you to verify the AppPool is gone.

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You can now go back into IIS and verify that the AppPool is no longer there!

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