I am trying to buy the CD "Latin Mix 1" by Casa Musica. It was published years ago and my usual sources dont sell it any longer. I am particularly interested in the following song, which I believe is on that CD:
Artist: Guadalupe Pineda
Song: Puede Fallar
Dance: Rumba

Can anyone suggest a source to buy that CD or download the song?

Is this the one (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_QNTz9c_I

Google also says it's on iTunes.

Attn.: Waynelee

Thanks for your comments.

Yes, that is the song. However, I need it in a format which allows me to manipulate the music with Sound Forge and the iTunes format does allow me to do that. Furthermore, I dont know how to capture the sound from the YouTube version. That is why I am trying to find the song on the original published CD. Most music sellers have the Casa Musica Latin Mix from #3 up, but this is on #1.

By the way, what is your opinion of the song? (They used to play it at competitions.)

The hardest part of a specific music search is finding the song. Once it is located, there are many methods to convert it to any format you wish. Since the music is located, now how to convert it.

For example, if you use Firefox for your browser, there is a plug-in for Firefox that allows for "one click" downloads from YouTube. You can download audio only, or audio and video, into many different formats. In your case you could download the audio as an MP3. Then, there are many other audio converters that can take the MP3 and put it into a format that is compatible with Sound Forge.

If you use iTunes, it is a little more cumbersome. Download the music into your iTunes and then "burn" it to a CD. Then, there are several conversion programs that can "rip" the CD and convert the music to any format you want.

Now, all this being said, any "conversion" of the music will not be as good as an original copy. Quality certainly drops with each conversion program. The "best" audio sound would come from an original CD. But, if your main interest is using it for dancing, the quality should be fine. In my two methods, the best copy would be obtained by using the iTunes method because the source file is the best. Using the Firefox method, you don't know the quality of the original music that was used to create the YouTube video.

I have used the Firefox method many times for the studio. When we have a special "dance show" coming up (Holiday Show, Valentines Show, etc), the teachers always want some special music for their students. I taught the studio how to use the Firefox method to download from YouTube and then they upload the tune into iTunes for playing at the studio.

As far as the song goes, I am familiar with it and I have danced to it in several competitions. I do like it.

There is no need to burn a CD, then read the CD and convert the result to the desired format. In the example given, waynelee suggests doing this if the original is downloaded "into your iTunes," then burned to a CD, etc. The file is not "in" iTunes. iTunes is a computer program (application). A file is not "in" a computer program. The downloaded music is a file in the file system on your hard drive.

At least on the Macintosh, you can use "Show in Finder" (File menu) to locate the file. I'm less familiar with the Windows version of iTunes but I suspect that it's just as easy. But easy or hard, the point is that the file already exists on your hard drive, so burning it to a CD and then reading it back in is totally unnecessary--and loses quality.

There are numerous applications, some of them free, that can convert audio files from one format to another.