1. Ensure volume consistency
Your CD is not a & quot; And when listening to music you have to continually adjust the volume by the player at too young, too loud? Extract the song (rip) from the CD and save it to your computer and then use tools that support the normalizing feature to edit the audio. The last step is burn (burn) the newly edited songs to the disk and ... enjoy.
2. How much compression is reasonable?
The factor that affects quality as well as the procedure for downloading or uploading audio files is audio compression. A 4 minute song & quot; eat & quot; 40MB in the CD drive when you extract it in WAV format. However, it only takes 4-5MB when storing files in MP3 or WMA (Windows Media Audio) format. Compression eliminates unnecessary "additives". For MP3 format, setting the 128 bit compression rate is best. Meanwhile, the 96-bit rate also delivers similar quality to the WMA format. High or lower & quot; threshold & quot; Listed above depends on your needs, quality or file size.
3. Windows Media Player and MP3 encoding
Ever since installation, WMP (Windows Media Player) has configured itself to compress the audio CD to WMA format. Want to store MP3 printing files using WMP, you need to invest in an MP3-based add-on. You can access the Microsoft website (www.microsoft.com/downloads) or open the Learn More About MP3 Formats link in the Tools / Options box of WMP. There are also many files extracting software from standard MP3 encoders, including Magix MP3 Maker (www.magix.com).
4. What is AAC, FLAC, Ogg?
You have been very familiar with MP3s, WMAs ... but there are other digital audio formats for portable media players that you may not have heard of. Subscribe to Apple's iTunes online music service, you will be familiar with AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) format. Also included is the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format - which offers the same version as the original file, but with a 50% reduction in file size. Another popular format is Ogg Vorbis, a free, open source codec that is popular with both Linux and Windows users.
Many music players support Ogg (not many devices support FLAC), you can add support for this format for WMP completely free. Ogg is equivalent to MP3 and WMA for audio quality.
5. & quot; Patch & quot; P2P security vulnerabilities
If you use Kazaa, Morpheus or a file-sharing program, you're using file sharing software over peer-to-peer networks. Many people use P2P programs to share audio files illegally. However, the nature of these programs is mostly designed for legitimate purposes. In many cases, you install a P2P software to exchange content on your computer with your friends over the Internet. To ensure the security, also to ensure the legal, you should go to the Options tab (or Preferences) to ensure the following two tips:
First, change the setting so that the program does not automatically share information with other users.
Second, prevent the program from firing itself at startup. Remember that sharing files over a peer-to-peer network means you leave your hard drive to anyone wandering the Internet.
As soon as you change the settings, you will immediately recognize the value of the file sharing program over peer-to-peer networks.
6. Collaborate over music
More and more musicians (both professionals and amateurs) are joining the Internet. They form groups, exchanging music files for the same comment, editing and finishing not only. Aside from content, the participants can also help each other in technology, audio formats, etc. So there's no reason not to mix yourself into an online music community.
7. "Hold the picture, change the language"
Video editing tools, for example Windows Movie Maker 2.0 ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker ), allowing users to split audio filters during video editing. Derive from the "clear" You can keep the & quot; audio copyright & quot; The author's main vocal and background noise and background sound depending on the circumstances, goals. Movie Maker 2.0 supports a wide variety of audio formats, including WAV, MP3, WMA and AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format).
8. Responsibility for the use of music files
In the & quot; play & quot; On the net, you sometimes encounter some websites with background music. Actually, you can also do this with the command line (Netscape and Mozilla support) or
9. List of iTunes
Apple's iTunes software has a very built-in & quot; is Smart Playlists. Smart Playlists automatically builds playlists from the database of songs available on the hard drive through user-selectable criteria. The tool allows you to search for songs by artist name, number of times you've listened (for example, you want to find songs you do not hear often, etc.), even sound quality. In addition, you can adjust the amount of time spent on Smart Playlists. The Live Updating feature also allows the tool to automatically update the playlist when your database is constantly added.
10. Sing karaoke on the computer
You want to & quot; practice vocals & quot; but do not want to invest? Download your computer software like DSP Centercut ( http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=17450 & amp; ), the software can turn the hard disk tracks into real karaoke tracks. The tool allows you to remove the original sound of the song or reduce & quot; potentiometer & quot; A little bit so you can confidently sing along without fear of words.
11. You are not & quot; tied & quot; into a music player
Most MP3 players come with a software that allows you to transfer and manage songs stored on your device. However, in most cases you do not have to & quot; force constraints & quot; With the program is available in the device since you bought it. Learn how to enjoy the freedom of enjoying digital audio files.
12. Store music files
Store all music files in the same place so you can easily search for a song when you want to listen. The music player (iTunes, WMP, RealPlayer ...) can help you with this. However, the selection list will be more accurate if the selection is done personally by you. In addition, unifying a storage location simplifies security procedures, helping files you do not want to share avoiding the & quot; curious eyes & quot ;.
13. Not only & quot; hear & quot; but also & quot; insight & quot;
One of the advanced features of the player is the ability to download the information related to the music file playing to better serve the needs of the user. & Quot; additive & quot; This may include the name of the album containing the song, information about the artist, etc. For not only "listening" but also "understanding", in Windows Media Player 9, in the Options dialog box select Privacy; Then select Update My Music Files By Retrieving Media Information From The Internet.
14. Back up your "license"
When you buy a song from an online audio business website, you need a & quot; copyright & quot; to be able to run that song right on his machine. Computer systems that store & quot; digital rights & quot; in specific locations, for example My Documents (Windows Media Player). It is a good idea to back up your copy and save it to another folder for backup. In WMP, you can do this through the License Management feature in Tools.
15. Mastery of information related to the song
RealPlayer has a feature that allows users to change how the songs on the CD appear in the library folder of the program. Open the Tools dialog box, select Preferences; select My Library and the Advanced My Library option; Select Change Filenames. Using this customization dialog, you can change the naming convention, the order of appearance for information related to the song including album name, song title, artist name, genre, track order etc ...
