[CW] 2020 Learning Morse Code - YouTube Lessons - convert to mp3

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

I just sent this to a friend who is blind, but it would help sighted
people, too.

I'm leaving in the parts about Linux because if any have Linux they
might be helpful, Windows and Mac users, ignore those parts, except
vlc is excellent and is available for Windows - in fact it plays DVDs
and it's free so Windows 10 users might really want to install vlc
because Windows Media Player has been removed and the substitute costs
money.  VLC is available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Android, and
iOS (iPad, iPhone).  Linux vlc will convert files to mp3 also, so
maybe VLC will do so for Mac, and Windows also.

Hello my friend Nathan,

Happy New Year, I am glad you are learning Morse code.  It's really fun.

I no longer have high frequency equipment, in fact, I haven't been on
high frequency for just over 4 years
except for two hours a month ago, but it was really fun using my friend's
equipment - he is a voice operator but I brought a Vibroplex key.

(NOTE:  Windows users can use this web page to convert to  mp3:
https://youtubemp3free.org/ )

I wanted to tell you that I use youtube-dl- and convert youtube videos
to mp3 files.

I put this in my ~/.bash_aliases file.

alias yt='youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3'

I just updated my web page to include this advice.

https://qsl.net/n1ea/learnmorsecode.html

There is another program that is in Arch Linux called youtube-dl-mp3
which is better and doesn't make a file with part of the URL as the
file name.

Remember, one lesson at a time, and don't leave the lesson until you
continue to score 100%.  Remember when I was 13, I skipped learning
the numbers when I got to 7 and when I became a radio officer in the
merchant marine, I was never sure of 8 or 9, it was embarrassing as
all get out.  I finally unlearned my error of 18 years prior (I was 31
when doing this and I think it took me until I was about 35 to unlearn
my error!

aldo works in console on some Linux distributions, but it crashes in
Arch Linux, I think it works in Slint, but I'm not sure because I am
not running slint at the moment.

Best wishes,