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Converting Youtube to Mp3 and similar styles posts
Over the last few months we have seen an increase in posts to the Microsoft Tech Community requesting help to extract or convert media hosted on 3rd party sites to mp3 files. To help keep the Microsoft Tech Community focused, secure, and compliant, we want to clarify our position on posts that request help or advice on extracting audio or video content from commercial or third‑party websites. 🚫 Why these requests are not allowed Many commercial websites explicitly prohibit the downloading, extraction, or reuse of their audio and video content without permission. Requests for assistance with bypassing, avoiding, or undermining these restrictions typically violate the Terms of Use of those services. Examples of such terms can be found here: YouTube – Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms Netflix – Terms of Use: https://help.netflix.com/legal/termsofuse BBC Sounds / iPlayer – Terms of Use: https://www.bbc.co.uk/terms (This list is not exhaustive; most commercial streaming and media platforms have similar restrictions.) 🧹 How these posts are handled in Microsoft Tech Community As a result: Posts requesting guidance on extracting, downloading, or reusing audio or video from commercial sites are considered off topic. Such posts will be removed and treated as spam. Repeated or serious misuse may result in further action, including restrictions or removal of access to the Microsoft Tech Community. ✅ What is in scope for the Microsoft Tech Community The Microsoft Tech Community exists to help members: Share best practices, technical examples, and real‑world experience Learn and collaborate around Microsoft products and services Discuss supported APIs, tools, and features within the bounds of applicable terms, licences, and policies If you have questions about legitimate media handling scenarios using Microsoft technologies (for example, working with content you own rights to, or using supported Microsoft services such as Azure Media Services, Stream, or Graph APIs), those discussions are welcome. 🙏 Thank you Thank you for helping keep the Microsoft Tech Community a safe, focused, and trusted place for technical collaboration. If you are unsure whether your question is appropriate, please review the community guidelines or contact a moderator before posting.1.5KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Genişletilmiş Güvenlik Güncelleştirmeleri
pegasusTR Thanks for posting, this is the Community lounge section of the community which is for people who have feedback or questions about the Microsoft Tech Community itself. If you can confirm which product your question is about I will move it to the correct area. Otherwise please post this in the correct area, check https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/Directory20Views0likes0CommentsRe: Impossible to sign in with different user account
Hi ziplock9000 , Thanks for posting, automatic login is a contentious issue, people who are at work want it and people who are at home don't (sweeping generalization). Unfortunately we have very little control how login works for the Microsoft Tech Community, we leverage the standard Microsoft login workflows. There are 4 basic ways to avoid this issue: Create separate user accounts to login to windows with for both users (see Settings -> Account -> Other Users) - best option if different users (as in your case) Using Edge or Chrome create a new user profile for chrome using your login and only use your account in that profile - Best option if its the same user but work / school Clear all cookies and local storage and try again - Not ideal but would work got to https://account.microsoft.com and log out of each session and then go back to the Microsoft tech community. I hope this helps215Views2likes0CommentsRe: Deleting Posts/Forms
NJxlsfan , Welcome to the community, I am sorry you are having issues posting. I don't quite understand the issue but that link you provided is not complete, in-fact it reads like something we would put in our internal documentation to tell employees how our emails are formatted. What is it your trying to post about.15Views0likes0CommentsRe: What is the Best place for Windows 7 ISO download in 2025
Windows 7 is now officially no longer supported, the final date for support was 10th January 2023, see here for more details: Windows 7 - Microsoft Lifecycle | Microsoft Learn Please upgrade to our latest operating system, windows 11, to find out more visit : Download Windows 1123KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Problem with E drive
StevieM54 Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community! We’re glad to have you here. The Lounge is primarily for feedback and discussions about the Microsoft Tech Community itself, rather than technical troubleshooting. Based on what you’ve described, since Microsoft Support suspects a hardware issue, the best next step would likely be to take your system to a local computer repair service for a hands-on diagnosis. Thanks for sharing your concern, and we hope you find the community helpful for future discussions and feedback. Best regards, Allen26Views0likes0CommentsRe: Posts and comments not getting approved
StevieM54, Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community, there isn't really anything you need to do your posts will - in all likelihood - be approved shortly (if not already). New community members posts are all pre-moderated and this is usually done within 1 business day. Of course 4 days ago it would have taken longer owing to the Thanksgiving break. Once you achieve a certain rank, which we do not divulge, you will then only get random pre-moderation / targeted moderation based on content. Let me know if you're still having issues.24Views0likes0CommentsRe: Changed My Resolution to my tv in game and now my colors are all messed up
billymays1234567 , Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community, this space is for feedback on the Microsoft Tech Community itself. It's not clear to me what the issue your facing is but if its issues with your monitor or TV then please contact your device manufactures support team for help. If its an issue with an xbox then please visit there forum here: Welcome To The Xbox Community: We All Play Together | Xbox Thanks Allen22Views0likes0CommentsRe: RSS feed blocking readers
nikolaiblackienz , Thanks for posting, we have recently had to block some IPs from access to the community due to suspected malicious traffic coming from them. If your happy enough using your desktop client then that great, however I am also happy to look more into your online RSS provider if you like.44Views1like1CommentRe: Issues attaching files to posts
Hey folks, at some point im going to split off these replies to the community lounge, this post was supposed to have comments turned off as I wasn’t following it. please if you encounter issues with the community post in the community lounge. now I’ve seen the comments here I will look into the reported issue and report back.71Views1like0CommentsRe: Long wait for initial load of this site
Actually what your talking about would come under FCP as included in that is how long it takes for the server to respond to the request. I would be happy to look into this further for you, the hero images (most of them) are a few kb in size as we switched most of them to AVIF files about a year ago so they should load very quickly. Anyways if you want me to look into it further then would you be able to capture a .har file and email it to the email address I have sent you in PM? Capture a browser trace for troubleshooting - Azure portal | Microsoft Learn16Views1like0CommentsRe: Long wait for initial load of this site
wroot , As always, thank you for your contributions, page load time is a subjective topic because its dependant on so many variables, some of them Surya_Narayana has explored in his reply here. We actively monitor page load times for site visitors and most pages render within a few seconds at most- our RSS feeds haven't taken longer than 0.8s to render since February for example. Page load time can also be affected by when you access the community, for example we have regular maintenance slots / updates which can impact site performance but these would usually last maybe an hour at max. So all that said. is there a problem, well by the fact your posting about it. yes there is. Its a problem we are aware of and we are working with the engineering team to address and it affects how long it takes for something called the First Contentful Paint (FCP) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Both of these are directly tied to how a page loads, see these definitions First Contentful Paint (FCP) is a web performance metric that measures the time from page load to when the first piece of content (text, image, or canvas) is rendered on the screen, giving users a visual cue that the page is loading. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a core web performance metric that measures the time from when the page starts loading to when the largest visible content element (such as a hero image, video, or large text block) is fully rendered in the viewport. It reflects how quickly the main content becomes visible to the user and is a key indicator of perceived loading speed. Many factors impact both of these and we have recently made some improvements in them, but we have more work being done over the next few releases. It's important, however, to highlight that these issues are not the same as the issues we had in the classic UI and have a different root cause. Anyways I wanted to be transparent with you and hopefully let you know that we have heard the feedback and its under active development. Allen Smith Technical Lead Microsoft Tech Community12Views0likes2CommentsRe: Right click menu not Working in excel on iPad pro
Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community Community Lounge, this board is to discuss issues relating to the Microsoft Tech Community. Your Query appears to be about Microsoft Excel, which can be found here: Excel | Microsoft Community Hub, unfortunately we can not assist you with this query so we will move it to the appropriate community. Please Note: The Microsoft Tech Community is not an official support channel for Microsoft, if you require support then please either contact your account manager, if applicable, or Microsoft Support via https://support.microsoft.com. Kind regards Allen Smith Technical Lead Microsoft Tech Community Admin Team If my answer was helpful please mark it as the solution and like any other replies that you find helpful33Views0likes0CommentsRe: Hard Disk Error unable to run system diagnostic tool
naxozane , Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community, in this community we discuss best practice and hints and tricks for using Microsoft products and services. It sounds like you are having issues with a HP Product / Software as such you would be better to post in the HP Community Forums here: Home - HP Support Community or contact their support teams. If you have an issue with a Microsoft product then please do contact our support team via https://support.microsoft.com Thanks Allen27Views0likes0CommentsRe: Can´t add IMAP email to the outlook Desktop APP Windows 11
Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community Community Lounge, this board is to discuss issues relating to the Microsoft Tech Community. Your Query appears to be about Microsoft Outlook, which can be found here: Outlook | Microsoft Community Hub , unfortunately we can not assist you with this query so we will move it to the appropriate community. Please Note: The Microsoft Tech Community is not an official support channel for Microsoft, if you require support then please either contact your account manager, if applicable, or Microsoft Support via https://support.microsoft.com. Kind regards Allen Smith Technical Lead Microsoft Tech Community Admin Team If my answer was helpful please mark it as the solution and like any other replies that you find helpful58Views0likes0CommentsRe: SSO in Azure doesn't work for the test users from the free Microsoft 365 Developer Program
Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community Community Lounge, this board is to discuss issues relating to the Microsoft Tech Community. Your Query appears to be about Microsoft Entra, which can be found here: Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Community Hub, unfortunately we can not assist you with this query so we will move it to the appropriate community. Please Note: The Microsoft Tech Community is not an official support channel for Microsoft, if you require support then please either contact your account manager, if applicable, or Microsoft Support via https://support.microsoft.com. Kind regards Allen Smith Technical Lead Microsoft Tech Community Admin Team If my answer was helpful please mark it as the solution and like any other replies that you find helpful49Views0likes0CommentsRe: How to disable automatic updates in Debug Diagnostics 2.1 using PowerShell
Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community Community Lounge, this board is to discuss issues relating to the Microsoft Tech Community. Your Query appears to be about PowerShell, which can be found here: Category: PowerShell | Microsoft Community Hub, unfortunately we can not assist you with this query so we will move it to the appropriate community. Please Note: The Microsoft Tech Community is not an official support channel for Microsoft, if you require support then please either contact your account manager, if applicable, or Microsoft Support via https://support.microsoft.com. Kind regards Allen Smith Technical Lead Microsoft Tech Community Admin Team If my answer was helpful please mark it as the solution and like any other replies that you find helpful43Views0likes0CommentsRe: My Tech Community Inbox is broken
rgsteele , Welcome to the Microsoft Tech community Lounge, let me start by apologizing for the bug you are facing. It's relating to a bug in the new platform when handling private messages sent to large groups of users and we have been slowly fixing the issues it caused - clearly we have not fixed it entirely yet. I can apply a work around in the mean time to remove all the messages in your PM's and that will clear the error. I can confirm that at this time all the PM's you have are of this type with the exception of the most recent one which appears to be a test message you sent yourself. Let me know if you would like me to do this. Allen Smith Technical Lead Let me know if I answered your question by marking it as the solution, please like any helpful replies197Views0likes1CommentRe: Outlook Classic not Opening
Keith100 , Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community Lounge, this is a space to discuss the Microsoft Tech Community itself. Your question appears to be about outlook and how it works. I will move your post to the outlook discussion board for you, however please be aware that the Microsoft Tech Community is not an Support Community and your question maybe better addressed by contacting Microsoft Support (https://support.microsoft.com) Allen80Views0likes0CommentsRe: Betreff: Windows 10 ESU-Programm – Berechtigtes Gerät zeigt keine Registrierungsoption
Franz41 , Welcome to the Microsoft Tech Community Lounge, this space is for discussing issues with the Microsoft Tech Community itself and as your question is not about the Microsoft Tech Community I will need to move it to the Windows 10 board, which is probably the best location for it. Please note: The Microsoft Tech Community is not an official support channel and we officially only support English Language discussions. If you require assistance in German then please contact https://support.microsoft.com and select windows.28Views0likes0Comments
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