A few months ago I found a free (donation-based) Ad-free online YouTube to MP3 converter site called CNVMP3. You simply paste a YouTube URL and it'll convert it to mp3 and save it to your downloads folder. I've been using this converter to make audio files of the Irish tunes played in the Portland, OR area sessions. My favorite posters of Irish tunes on YouTube are those who make short videos of just the tune being played two or three times through with no preamble or extra talking. These include:
- Dulahan Ireland (my overall favorite!)
- Irish Music with Gavin McNutt
- Liz Faiella
- mandolinuk
- peakfiddler
- pluckinstrings
- ROUX Recordings
- Tergal14Mandolin
- The Irish Mandolin
Now that I had all these files saved, I was looking for a convenient way to get the music onto a player on my phone with a random play option. I finally found iBroadcast Media Player and it couldn't be easier! It works exactly how I wanted it to. On your PC you simply create an account and upload a folder containing the mp3 files. Then download the app, log in to your account and boom the music will be right there on your phone. Earlier today I drove around town running a few errands and had one of the playlists on shuffle play.
I also uploaded a folder to iBroadcast containing all the tune sets I could find on the Trailjams.org site. About 70 of them! Now I can put these files on random play and play along with them. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Hopefully you find this helpful too!
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