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So, I don't know a lot about 'puters and don't want to know more than I have to about the Devil's machine. :) I just wanna use one.
So, I have this CD called "Tabla Turbo" that is belly dancing music, and not on I tunes or any place like that. So, my roomate told me that I could just buy a thumb drive and use my computer to copy the CD to the Drive. I did not think I could do it due to copyright crankiness, but he insisted I could, so I tried. Well, as you can probably guess, that did not work. So for music CD's that are not main stream, how can this be done?
I also intend to purchase some songs on Amazon to put on the drive and anticipate no issues, but that is a horse of a different color.
Gwendolyn
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music CDs to MP3
Gwen, If you're running windows the built in Windows Media Player will "rip" CDs onto your harddrive, If you are using a Mac that should have a built in media player that should do it as well.
Once you've "ripped" the CD onto your PC/Mac you can then copy them onto your thumbdrive/MP3 player.
HTH.
Sammi
if you use WMP...
be sure to tell it to rip as mp3, otherwise it'll default to wma.
Abigail Drew.
Well, wrong as usual :)
My goodness, I did find that my music IS on Amazon. Wow. I am told that MP-3 is not good audio um stuff. I wonder what it is like when Lady Gaga is pounding out "Poker Face"? Gosh, already got a speaker growin fuzz over that.
Gwendolyn
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Yes, your music is indeed on Amazon, AND iTunes: Turbo Tabla 1, 2, 3 and 4 are ALL there. on iTunes, it's $0.99 per album. Darned cheap if you ask me.
Also, everyone else is totally correct - I don't know about Macs, but there are literally dozens of free CD rippers available on Windows. Plus you don't have to go through the rigamarole of copying the ripped MP3 songs from your computer to a thumb drive. What you can do is to plug in the thumb drive BEFORE you rip your CD. When you start running the CD ripper program, just be sure to specify your thumb drive as the destination of your new MP3s.
As to the quality of the MP3s, yes, the audio quality can be bad. What you can do is to increase the Sample Rate when you make the MP3s. A low sample rate will make your MP3 files smaller BUT the quality will be bad. A high sample rate will mean a better quality sound, but it will be a larger file. It is therefore a decision between - do you want smaller files or good audio quality. If you want the SAME quality of sound as the original CD, you can rip them to WAV files instead of to MP3 file (the CD ripper program will allow you to pick the format). The problem is that the WAV files will be the same size as the CD: for example, the WAV version of a CD will probably total 700-720MB (which is the capacity of CD), with each song being 40-50MB. For comparison purposes, an MP3 song file is usually 2-3MB for the low-quality sound version, and 5-6MB for the hi-quality sound version. As you can see, the saving in disk space can be substantial.
As to the copyright thing - you CAN make copies of your songs, provided you have the original legally-purchased CD with you. What is illegal is if you have a copy of the song but you don't have a legally-purchased original. That means if you have the original CD, you are fine. This is what I remember from the Jammie Thomas case two years ago.
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On copying CDs to USB sticks
Well, there's a problem in that action - if you use either Mac OS X's Finder or Windows's Explorer, and open the CD drive, you will see "files" on it that are not the music files - they are just the track information. So if you copy those files, you don't copy the music, just the track info.
What you need to do is to "rip" the music, in other words convert the CD track to some digital music storage format such as the lossy compressed MP3, OGG/OGA/Ogg Vorbis, Mpeg 4 audio/MP4/M4A/AAC, Windows Media Audio/WMA; a non-lossy format such as AIFF, WAV, RAW, AU(X) or a non-lossy compressed format such as FLAC, OGG/FLAC, Apple Lossless/M4A or Windows Media Audio Lossless/WMA.
iTunes can do MP3, AAC or Apple Lossless for you. Windows Media Player can do the Windows Media formats (and I'm almost sure MP3 too, though I've never used Windows Media Player myself so I wouldn't know). For the best compression of MP3 - quality varies between programs used to rip the audio, a recent LAME encoder as is used by CDex is considered the best available today - or the Ogg formats, CDex is probably the best open source software. CDex can also do a whole lot of other formats.
Once you have the actual audio ripped you can move that to the USB pin.
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there are too many video and image format which has ordinary people who has little knowledge on technology to understand the differences, the manufacturer should converge these technologies from the vlsi design and architecture basic level, such as mpeg encoder, mpeg decoder etc.