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Encoding CDs and Organizing Your Digital Music Library

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Mountainous stacks of CDs and traditional stereos and boom boxes are quickly giving way to digital music libraries stored on the hard drives of PCs. If you find yourself on the outside looking into the digital music world – then read on! Compressing your CD's Into Digital Music Files Okay. Let’s say you have a CD of Kansas’ Greatest Hits. There are a number of songs on that CD which include an even greater number of different sounds: from pipe organs, to vocals, to percussion, to electric guitars. All that sound – for lack of a better word – is stored on that CD. Now, think for a moment… That’s a lot of musid! How do you get all that sound onto your PC’s hard drive, while at the same time not taking up too much of that precious storage space? Enter: audio compression. For more information on this, I'll refer you to an article I recently wrote entitled The Novice’s Guide to Audio Formats and File Extensions . This article goes into detail concerning the various popular audio file extensions available, such as WMA, MP3, RA, and WAV. Nonetheless, I will simply compress (no pun intended) the high points...

How to Nab and Convert Videos from the Internet

Brandon C — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:57:20 GMT

As usual I was hopping around the internet and came to a site I had never seen before. They have quite a few videos that you won't see on YouTube or other places. No, I am not talking about Porn or adult videos, just videos that I thought were funny and that I would like to share with my friends. The place I found was funnyjunk.com they have quite a few funny and interesting videos. I came across this video and thought that it would be nice to send it and share it with my friends and also to save to my computer and my Sansa. Unfortunately they don't have anything to allow me to download the video into some kind of Windows type format. After a little research, I found a way to do just what I want and with very little effort. The first thing I needed to do was download the video to my computer. I did this using a site called ClipNabber . This site allows you to paste the URL of the site that has a video you want and then you can download it into your computer. It's very simple to make this happen....

Getting Your Tunes onto Your New Player

Lisa Echtenkamp — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:29:15 GMT

Now that you’ve got your new Sansa MP3 player, let’s get you on the short road to loading your tunes. No complicated programs to load, no software to install. Within just minutes of unwrapping your new toy, you can be using it to enjoy tunes on your way to the gym, in your car, at the grocery store…wherever you go, your music can be right there with you, in a matter of moments.

iPhone -- the Techo-Bling of Our Times? iWish!

Eric Brandt — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:27:24 GMT

There is one (only one!) downside to being an iSkeptic: I can't report on the iPhone from direct PERSONAL experience. What I wrote in my blog a week ago is STILL true: "I haven't touched the iPhone yet. I haven't sniffed it, stroked it, slipped it in my pocket, or tried to download anything over its very slow Internet connection. I also haven't tried to thumb-type yet on its slippery little glass face." Why? Because, unlike all the iPhone faddists, I haven't plunked down hundreds of dollars for an untested unproven iDevice. I'm not drinking spiked Koolaid either. Luckily for us, all those who bought the iPhone, like my buddy Steve Jones , can now answer our questions. Here are my Top Ten: 1) What about, uh, just making a simple phone call? Is it true that the iPhone takes six steps to make a phone call? How long will that take to get on your nerves? Two days? Three? Is it true that the required AT&T partnership forces you to use one of the most notoriously bad networks in the country? Do makeup and fingerprints smear all over the device screen? 2) How about typing in a phone number...