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 [...]
The Music Won’t Stop
Previously, I wrote about problems getting the music to play problems getting MIDI music files to play in the Firefox web browser. I also received an email from reader Carolyn, who wrote to ask: Terry, as soon as I open an email, that has music in it, that music will play through dozens of emails. [...]
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 [...]
and