Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your computer and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 and ...

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For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking “Import” in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it’s not—and with good reason. Here’s how to digitize your tunes, the ...

I've read the similar threads here on this topic, but I want a little more info.<P>I want to rip my CDs and encode them to MP3s for my personal use. I want stable software that does this simply and ...

Tip 24: If you’re targeting 28.8 modem users, keep in mind they really don’t have that much bandwidth at their disposal. 28.8Kbps users will be lucky if they have 16Kbps to 22Kbps available to them at ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...

This was done in Erlangen; the spin-off Opticom distributed an MP3 playback program for Windows computers. The free version only played 20-second snippets, the full version was marketed for little ...