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Post by ef37a »

How do I do it? As a .wav or MP3 whatever. I can listen to the clips but cannot extract them to run in a DAW.

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Post by Eddy Deegan »

You can only officially download content from Soundcloud if the uploader set the permission to allow it. If they have, there is an option in the drop-down menu next to the track that looks like this:

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If that is not present then the uploader does not wish you, or has not set the permissions to allow you, to download it.

There are ways to record/download audio from Soundcloud unofficially but they will never be as good quality as the original uploaded file (and are morally ambiguous anyway).
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Post by James Perrett »

Officially you can only do it if the file owner has enabled downloads.
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Post by ef37a »

Thanks chaps. Seems a bit daft not to allow it if you are posting a clip for 'forensics'?

There is no way I can grab audio on this Lenovo W10 but I can on my old W7 HP.

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