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ABOUT MP3's!
The
Latest MP3 News!
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* Burn to CD those Napster To Go songs for free! - Click Here!
* Fewer People Paying for Music Downloads - NPD:- Click Here!
* Illegal MP3 site to pay $10 million in damages: Click Here!
* Copy-Proof' CDs Cracked with 99-Cent Marker Pen: Click Here!
* Mp3 Q & A Here!
* NEWS - The Lates Mp3 News!
* Mp3 - Multimedia Players!
* MP3 Utilities Files!
* Mp3 - File Sharing Programs, Kazaa, Napster, eDonkey!
* MP3s Players Review Page!
* CAR CD/MP3 Stereo Receiver Players Review Page!
All About Mp3s
The Basics of Mp3s
MP3
stands for MPEG 1:
By Raymond Garcia
WebTechGeek.com
MP3 stands for MPEG1 (Motion
Picture Experts Group) Layer 3. It's a digital audio compression
format built from over 10 years of psycho-acoustical research.
MP3 squishes down sound files 10-15 times smaller than
a parent file. MP3 file retains most of the perceived
audio fidelity by stripping out the waveforms that the
human ear doesn't process. Not nearly CD-quality if you
do a comparison on headphones you will hear a quality
defense. MP3 is nonetheless a tremendous breakthrough
in terms of sound quality for a high compression rate.
Altered our music listening habits, and brought concerns
about piracy violently to the forefront of our attention.
Amid the confusion of this technological
revolution we can't afford to lose track of what's legal
and what's not. Record companies are serving papers to
individual audio pirates. For those who create their own
music, the laws are quite simple. You have every right
to encode your own composition to .MP3 format and distribute
it on the Internet. Just make sure that you solely own
the rights and permissions to the composition. It is also
legal to encode MP3s of music that you've bought for personal
use for home listening, but it's illegal to give anyone
copies. MP3 music quality is good but you do lose some
of the music quality in the conversion to MP3. So I don't
think music listeners will pay for MP3 music instead of
CDs.
CD
stores songs as digital information. The data
on a CD uses an uncompressed, high-resolution format.
Here's what happens to create a CD. Music is sampled 44,100
times per second, The samples are 2 bytes (16 bits) long.
Separate samples are taken for both the left and right
speakers in a stereo system. Therefore a CD stores a huge
number of bits for each second of music: 44,100 samples/second
* 16 bits/sample * 2 channels = 1,411,200 bits per second
1.4 million bits per second is 176,000 bytes per second.
If an average song is 3 minutes long, then the average
song on a CD consumes about 33 million bytes of space.
33 Mbytes is a lot of space for one song, and it is especially
large when you consider most people have slow Internet
connections. A 56 kbit modem it would take something close
to 2 hours to download one 33 Mbytes song.
Note: When your encoder rip a .WAV
file to a compressed audio format (MP3), it compresses
it while retaining the same clarity and range as that
found on CD. , but some of the information gets lost, theoretically
it's information that you aren't capable of hearing anyway
, but some people can hear it.
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MP3
Q & A
By Raymond, WebTechGeek
1. Q. What are Mp3's. - A.
Mp3's (namehere.mp3) compressed music files, a well-known
compression techniques shrinks the music by a factor of
10.
2. Q. How do I get free Mp3's - A.
You can download Mp3's from the Internet using file
sharing programs, from friends, from music sites on
the Internet or from Mp3 Newsgroups.
3. Q. How do I make Mp3's form my own
music CD's, LP's and cassettes? - A.
You need to install a program on to your PC to convert
(RIP) your music to Mp3's. More
here!
4. Q. Where can I buy Mp3's? - A.
Just type "MP3" into any search engine and you
will find that there are literally thousands of music
sites on the Internet where you can buy and download MP3
files. Here are just a few: Napster.com
- apple.com
itunes store
5. Q. How do I play Mp3's on my PC?
- A. You need to use a Multimedia player
installed on you PC. You can use Windows Multimedia player
if your using Windows OS it maybe pre-installed, or you
can download and install it or install another Multimedia
player here.
6. Q. Is the sound quality of MP3 better
than a CD? - A. No. MP3 is a compression
format, it throws away some of the information from a
CD format. MP3 format uses characteristics of the human
ear to design the compression algorithm. Example: There
are certain sounds that the human ear cannot hear, there
are two sounds playing simultaneously, we can only hear
the louder one. Certain parts of a song can be eliminated
without significantly hurting the quality of the music
for the listener. Compressing the rest of the music using
well-known compression techniques shrinks the music by
a factor of 10. When you creating an MP3 file, what you
have is "near-CD" quality. The MP3 music file
will not sound exactly the same as the original music
CD, because some of the music has been removed, but it
will be very close.
7. Q. Can I change, rename, amplify,
trim, edit my Mp3 files? - A. Yes, there
are many Mp3 utilities files to choose from here.
8. Q. Can I play Mp3's on a portable
player? - A. Yes, there are many Mp3
players for you to pick from, search
Gogles for cheap Mp3 players. You can use the software
that came with your Mp3 player to transfer your Mp3's
to your Mp3 player.
9. Q. How can I play Mp3's music files
in my automobile (car or rided). - A. You can buy and
install one of the new Mp3
car receivers, there are many to choose from. Some
newer portable Mp3 players come with car adopters to play
your Mp3's on you car receiver. Portable wireless FM Transmitter used with your portable Mp3 player are very popular. You can also covert your
Mp3 files and copy them to a CD disc to play on a standard
automobile CD/CDR player or home CD/CDR player. Use one
of these Multimedia
players to convert and copy to CD disc.
10. Q. Are MP3's legal? - A.
Yes, Mp3's are merely a data compression format, very legal. But,
what you do with that Mp3 format can be legal or illegal.
The distribution of music in MP3 format over the Internet
has prompted much legal debate and action over copyright
law. In fact, the Recording Industry Association of America
has won many suit against users that illegal trade and
distribute Mp3 files. This Q&A By Raymond, WebTechGeek.com.
Media
Box MP3 Workstation
- Audio grabber, easy mp3 encoder, mp3 dj mixer player,
database organiser, ID3 batch editor and more.
Audio editor
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sound recorder to create wav files from tapes, vinyl,
microphone, mixing deck etc
MP3 PRO! The next generation MP3
MP3
PRO! The next generation MP3 codec has been released:
by Raymond, WebTechGeek.com - This is the official version
from the same ones that brought us the Original MP3 format.
MP3 PRO AUDIO TECHNOLOGY: The world's most popular audio
compression format gets even better! mp3PRO audio technology
is both backwards and forwards compatible with mp3 and
creates files that are 1/2 or less the size of original
mp3 files, with great sound quality. Developed by Coding
Technologies, mp3PRO utilizes both Coding Technologies'
codec enhancement technology and the pioneering work in
the field of perceptual audio coding covered under the
basic mp3 patents owned by Thomson and Fraunhofer.
About mp3PRO and compatibility: Using advanced psychoacoustics
techniques and music structure analysis, mp3PRO creates
files that are more compact than original mp3 files, with
equal or better sound quality and complete backwards and
forwards compatibility. Your old mp3 files will play completely
normally on a new mp3PRO player. New mp3Pro files will
play normally on old mp3 players, but without the dramatic
mp3Pro improvements. Of course, new mp3PRO files played
on a new mp3PRO decoder will provide the optimal listening
experience!
How the mp3PRO technology works: When making an mp3PRO
file, the new mp3PRO encoder splits audio recordings into
two parts. One part analyzes the low frequency band information
and encodes it into a normal mp3 stream. The second part
analyzes the high frequency band information and encodes
it into a part of the mp3 stream that is normally ignored
by old mp3 decoders.
More Music on your media: Offering 128 kbps (kilo bits
per second) performance at a 64 kbps-encoding rate, mp3PRO
doubles the digital music capacity of flash memory and
of compact discs. For example, traditional audio CDs hold
about 15 songs, and an mp3 CD can hold 150 or more songs
encoded at 128 kbps. In the near future, when mp3 CD players
incorporate the mp3PRO decoder, consumers will be able
to store over 300 songs on an mp3PRO encoded Compact Disc.
Sound Quality: The bottom line is mp3PRO provides superior
sound quality at lower bit rates that traditional mp3.
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MP3
Tips!
How
to make your MP3s: By Raymond WebTechGeek -
There are two top MP3 software players right now, that
you can use to play your MP3s on your PC. One of the top
MP3 player is WINAMP, and the other is MusicMatch Jukebox
. MusicMatch Jukebox can Burn CDRs. You can Rip your own
MP3s from your CD collection or from your old LPs and
cassettes. You can Listen to thousands of Radio channels
from around the world and record as you listen. Related:
Burning
CDRs and Reviews
Index here!
Tips for making
audio CDRs: By Raymond WebTechGeek - If you
have about 700MB of free hard derive space, you can eliminate
the chances of a fatal buffer underrun by creating your
CD from an image file. An image file contains all the
info and pointers necessary to represent your date as
it will appear on a CD. This is also the easiest way to
make more then one copies of the same CD. Related: Burning
CDRs and Reviews
Index here! How to a Burn
Cassette or LP to CDR - here!
Copy-protected
CDs: These CDs are designed not to work
on computer CD players in an effort to shut down the ripping
and trading of MP3 tracks. Many people, use their computer
to stand in for their stereo system these days. To take
the ability to play a CD on a computer away violates consumer
expectations of the product. But you can't avoid these
CDs without becoming aware of which albums are encumbered
with the technology. Fat
Chuck and the Campaign
of Digital Rights, among the first sites to post running
lists of computer disabled CDs.
Speaker
Tip:
Reviewed by Raymond, WebTechGee.com - If you don't
have a good pair of computer speakers. You can use your
home stereo receiver to listen to your computer music
(MP3s) or games, by connecting your sound card mini line
out jack to your stereo RCA line in jacks on your stereo
receiver. You can buy the RCA stereo line jack
to mini stereo line jack adopter at most local
retailers ($3.99).
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* How to a Burn Cassette
or LP to CDR - here!
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* Mp3 - Multimedia Players!
* MP3 Utilities Files!
* Mp3 - File Sharing Programs, Kazaa, Napster, eDonkey!
* News - Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP
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New - Looking for a Program to rename several files (Like 50 MP3s) with same extension. By far the best I've tried is 1-4a Rename plus more MP3 utilities - click here
The Latest Mp3 Music News
Official Batman Begins Windows Media Player 10 skin: The Dark Knight returns! Check out this amazing Player 10 skin celebrating Batman Begins. microsoft.com
Burn to CD those Napster To Go songs
for free! 5/15/05
The New Napster’s $15 a month, all-you-can-download Napster To Go service, someone’s already found a way to burn unlimited amounts of music to CDs for free.
With Napster To Go you can download as much music as you want and transfer it to a portable device, but it normally costs 99 cents to burn a track to a CD and if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee you lose access to your entire collection:(
I'm not going to advise you to do anything wrong;-) but apparently if you install Winamp along with the Output Stacker plug-in you can convert those protected WMA files to WAV files and then burn them to CD without free.
How to here!
Fewer People Paying for Music Downloads - NPD:
Fewer People Paying for Music Downloads - NPD: Apple Computer Inc's iTunes remains the leader in paid digital music downloads, but the number of paying customers for this sector overall has decreased since April, research firm NPD said.
The Port Washington, New York-based market information company said the number of consumers paying for downloads fell to nearly one million users per month in May, June and July from a peak of 1.3 million in April 2004.
NPD said the downturn coincides with the end of promotions and trial price incentives offered by several services.
From December 2003 to July 2004, iTunes remained the dominant destination, commanding nearly 70 percent of music files downloaded legally, while Napster's share for that period was 11 percent.
MusicMatch, RealNetworks Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. each reached a six percent share.
Napster is a unit of Roxio Inc. , while MusicMatch recently agreed to be acquired by Yahoo Inc.
"Our research suggests that at this stage of the business it's not so much about building share as it is about creating demand for paid downloads universally," said Russ Crupnick, vice president of The NPD Group, Inc.
"We've seen that promotion works, but its had a short-term effect so far, which is typical for traditional consumer goods. The trick is in phasing promotions, so that there is a cumulative positive effect on the target market," he said.
Meanwhile, NPD cited no slowdown in the number of households with a member using peer-to-peer (P2P) sites to download music for free, with 6.4 million tallied in July 2004, compared with 5.1 million in August 2003. The numbers rise and fall incrementally month to month. (Reuters)
'Copy-Proof' CDs Cracked with 99-Cent Marker Pen:
Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant
Sony Music's elaborate disc copy-protection technology
with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the
rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker.
Internet newsgroups have been circulating news of the
discovery for the past week, and in typical newsgroup
style, users have pilloried Sony for deploying "hi-tech"
copy protection that can be defeated by paying a visit
to a stationery store.
"I wonder what type of copy protection will come
next?" one posting on alt.music.prince read. "Maybe
they'll ban markers."
Sony did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Major music labels, including Sony and Universal Music,
have begun selling the "copy-proof" discs as
a means of tackling the rampant spread of music piracy,
which they claim is eating into sales.
The new technology aims to prevent consumers from copying,
or "burning," music onto recordable CDs or onto
their computer hard drives, which can then be shared with
other users over file-sharing Internet services such as
Kazaa or Morpheus MusicCity.
SONY AGGRESSIVE ANTI-PIRACY PUSH - Monday, Reuters obtained
an ordinary copy of Celine Dion newest release "A
New Day Has Come," which comes embedded with Sony's
"Key2Audio" technology.
After an initial attempt to play the disc on a PC resulted
in failure, the edge of the shiny side of the disc was
blackened out with a felt tip marker. The second attempt
with the marked-up CD played and copied to the hard drive
without a hitch.
Internet postings claim that tape or even a sticky note
can also be used to cover the security track, typically
located on the outer rim of the disc. And there are suggestions
that copy protection schemes used by other music labels
can also be circumvented in a similar way.
Sony's proprietary technology, deployed on many recent
releases, works by adding a track to the copy-protected
disc that contains bogus data. Because computer hard drives
are programmed to read data files first, the computer
will continuously try to play the bogus track first. It
never gets to play the music tracks located elsewhere
on the compact disc.
The effect is that the copy-protected disc will play
on standard CD players but not on computer CD-ROM drives,
some portable devices and even some car stereo systems.
