Blowing in the Wind ....

During my O/L literature studies there was this poem (it was under the poems section) called "Blowing in the Wind" by Bob Dylan. Our teachers were good at explaining the meanings, social messages, etc that are given by those poems, since those are the exam topics.But when it comes to reciting poems, it was like a paragraph reading.

Recently when I was surfing the web(without a specific goal ) I found this video with the title, "Blowing in the Wind" & honestly I did not expect it to be this good. It was amazing !!!!. Had I know that this song is this beautiful, I would have love the English literature subject a little bit more.

I enjoyed this song very much, check it out........

(note that the original version of this song is by Bob Dylan. But I prefer this version by Katie Melua)

Convert YouTube videos to mp3 format in Ubuntu

Recently i wanted to convert a YouTube video to a mp3 file.(I'm using Ubuntu 9.04)
There were few options, but here is the process that worked for me.
first I installed the ffmpeg converter, as usual by,

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Then i downloaded the YouTube video to my home folder. Lets call it myVideo.flv (when you are watching YouTube video the flv file gets downloaded in to /tmp directory but i prefer DownloadHelper). Although DownloadHelper has a option of converting the video to mp3 format, it didn't work for me.

then convert the video by,

$ ffmpeg -i ~/myVideo -acodec copy convertedFile.mp3

Now listen to your new mp3 file using your favorite mp3 player.
cheers......

(make sure that you are not violating any copyright issues when converting media)