I had a question from Frank Lindholm, who subscribes to my email newsletter, recently, and who asked: i have many songs i recorded to a floppy disc (midis) is it possible to copy those to a c/d for a c/d player? frank Unfortunately, Frank won’t be able to burn the audio CDs directly from his [...]
MP3 Players and MP3 Player Synchronization Software
I had a recent experience of the unfortunate kind — it ended happily, but was touch-and-go for a while. You see, I managed to destroy my Creative Zen Xtra MP3 player. The Zen Xtra had a headphone jack problem, which seems to have been quite common based on reports I have seen, in which the [...]
MP3 Players, PDAs and Cell Phones – the Convergence
Have you seen the television ad from Verison, where everyone is walking down the street, shimmying like Shakira’s video? The convergence of handhelds appears to be going full-stream. Last year, Sony announced that it was exiting the PDA market in the U.S. Palm split into an operating system company and a hardware company. Now, the [...]
Converting WMA Audio Files to MP3 Format
Reader John Petruska wrote to ask: Message: Terry how can I convert my WMA files to MP3..?? What program do you recommend and or what other info can you tell me about doing this. I receive your “TIPS” and enjoy all the info you have in them. John ]ohm I wrote back to John to [...]
Software Review: Audacity Sound Recorder-Editor
Program: Audacity Publisher: the Audacity developers at http://audacity.sourceforge.net Category: Sound Recording and Editing My Shareware/Freeware Pick of the Week is Audacity, which is an free, open-source audio recording and editing software package. The Audacity project is hosted at that home of open-source software SourceForge.net. SourceForge provides storage space, a version control system, bug-tracking software and [...]
Converting Old Record Albums to Music CDs
Subsciber Janet Walker wrote to me recently to ask: Bought some old long playing record albums at a yard sale and would like to put them on a CD to save space and then get rid of the old records. What program do I need that would plug into my old record player and into [...]
Converting Vinyl LP Records to Digital
Subscriber Cary wrote with questions about project common to many people: I’m starting a little project to record about 100 vinyl LPs to mp3s on my hard drive. I\’m looking for free software that will let me record a line-in source. I\’ve heard that Audacity is very good, but one critical feature I want is [...]
MP3 Downloads | Free Music | Free MP3
Free music downloads — The Past “Free mp3 music download!“ ”Peer-to-Peer file sharing!” It sounded great. It brought in millions — of people who wanted to download free music. It brought in nothing to the music companies and the performers whose music was being uploaded and downloaded by those millions of users. The thrill of downloading [...]
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