mp3 player virgin needs help

[The Lone Rider]

Oh for trivias sake, the reason 44.1khz 16bit was decided as the red book standard has to do with one of the people on the committee listened to bach or bethoven or something like that... and anyway he commented that this one particular song is about 80 mins long and he has to turn over his tape/record in order to hear it all. So it is decided the format needs to fit about 80mins on, and by the way CDs are made, that meant audio had to be encoded at 44.1khz 16bit. The story is something along those lines anyway.

Oh, and more facts.. DVD Audio format is 24bit 96khz and is 5 channel (not two). Or at least is suppose to be. DVDA hasn't caught on in the world yet.

[The Lone Rider]

Dyers is spot on, except on the 192KBps vs. CD response; it is in fact very easy to hear the difference between the two using a normal stereo and a reasonably cheap pair of canalphones. Rock music no -- but if you listen to any classical or jazz music, which tends to be less highly compressed (talking about sound compression here, not file/data compression), it's very easy to hear the difference in quiet moments and in high pitch notes.

Thats fair enough to. I haven't tried that, and haven't mp3-a-fied my classical CDs.

But, based on the fact I've had more then one person tell me they can't hear a difference between 128kbps and a CD, I'd be surprised if they can hear the difference with 192. In fact I've had a rather vicious argument with a rather angry fat bastard who thought I was full of shit when I said I couldn't stand listening to 128kbps

[Badcat]

Okay so I've bought a very cheap little mp3 player - just a very basic Dick Smiths one for $40-. I've managed to put a bit of music on it but it only took about 50 songs, on the info it said it takes 60 mp3's or 120 wav files.

My question is...how do I convert my music to mp3 or wav format? I'm a complete novice when it comes to this. Is there software I can d/l? Or software I can buy?

I have a lot of music on iTunes (my own CD's and downloaded music)...ummmm, I d/l music through Limewire.

CSL asked about a simple solution to get music on her player - didn't she?
get an ipod.
easy to use, even if you are a novice.

(oh, and flame on, format geeks)
Ken

[The Pastor]

A musician geek -- and that which is most hated and reviled, an audiophile

what are you views on ICE?

[The Lone Rider]

CSL asked about a simple solution to get music on her player - didn't she?
get an ipod.
easy to use, even if you are a novice.

(oh, and flame on, format geeks)
Ken

Ipods suck. What a god damn waste of money.

Get yourself a decent mp4 player and never have to worry about format, have huge amount of file space, watch movies, listen to radio, store and view photos, and read text documents. All for around $160. Ipod can suck a fat one.

And if she asked how to get music on her player, why are you saying the way to get music on her player is to buy an ipod?

[Badcat]

Ipods suck. What a god damn waste of money.

Get yourself a decent mp4 player and never have to worry about format, have huge amount of file space, watch movies, listen to radio, store and view photos, and read text documents. All for around $160. Ipod can suck a fat one.

And if she asked how to get music on her player, why are you saying the way to get music on her player is to buy an ipod?

..riiiiight....
CSL wanted a simple solution to get music onto her player. her music is already in itunes.
plug in an ipod and it's done.
doesn't that answer her question and be kinda simple?
or would you rather try and prove that you are harder/smarter/more educated than me?
as i said, knock yourself out.

Ken

[The Lone Rider]

Yea, her player. Not an ipod

[xwhatsit]

what are you views on ICE?

ICE is an acronym that stands for a lot of things. I assume we're not talking about in-circuit emulation, or cryptography here?

[Ms Piggy]

software .. BUY???

I did say I'm a novice!

[Ms Piggy]

plug in an ipod and it's done.

I don't have an iPod, I have a DSE mp3 player. iTunes appears to only be for iPod's. Also, don't want an iPod as they're not the best (according to consumer), and I don't buy into commercialism/consumerism...which IMO iPod is a part of big time. Anyway at the moment (being a poor student) I've opted for a 'cheap as yo Mama' DSE mp3 player.

[SARGE]

I don't have an iPod, I have a DSE mp3 player. iTunes appears to only be for iPod's. Also, don't want an iPod as they're not the best (according to consumer), and I don't buy into commercialism/consumerism...which IMO iPod is a part of big time. Anyway at the moment (being a poor student) I've opted for a 'cheap as yo Mama' DSE mp3 player.

i have a Phillips GoGear 512mb player .. works fine

get this software .. cross platform freeware.. should convert your stuff to MP3 ( save as

[avgas]

Oh god i find this a funny read.
Its funny to see who has sold out to whom, as im from way back in the hay-day of mp3. The only thing music related at the time was remixed and looped midi files on an SB16 (if you were lucky) - because your mate upgraded his flash DX40 to play doom with actual music.
The II LC could only play one midi at a time, and Apple thought the only way to get music on your computer was to plug a big bloody cd-player onto your pc and play the CD...but you couldn't shuffle. Which made it more useless than the average ghetto blaster.
Then some time later, when i finally got my pentium.......the revolution started. .....and the secret was out on the street. Unlike windows media classic (was just called windows media player), you could play multiple songs from multiple folders (or CD drives if you had more than one in your tower).....on an amazing program called WINAMP (build 2.0).
This achievement was only superseded by the discovery of the the "Frounhover (GmbH sp) M-peg Layer 3 codec" which allowed users to actually rip music off a CD (using the now 8 speed CD-ROMs!!!) into a respectable size (roughly 1 meg / min @ 128kbs).........with each cd being less than 100mb, and underground society formed (usually on ICQ #mp3 forums) where people would swap music at whopping 2-30kbs.
Ah the good ol'e days....i miss my AWE32 plugged into that yamaha amp.
Isn't it funny that people thought MP3's started with the Ipod and/or Windows Media Player?
Where the fact of the matter was mp3 was the illegal underground format of ripping music, and didn't work on either windows media player, or any apple device at its time of conception.

[The Pastor]

ICE is an acronym that stands for a lot of things. I assume we're not talking about in-circuit emulation, or cryptography here?

Of course, being a motorbike website, obviously it stands for in car entertainment.

[avgas]

Of course, being a motorbike website, obviously it stands for in car entertainment.

What if you leave home without her?

[crashe]

my giddy aunt and yee gawds........

I have read this thread and I got lost on the second post.

I must be stuck in the dark ages......
Cos I ONLY have a turntable, cd player and a cassette player on my stereo.


Oh I do have a discman walkie thingeemejigs that can plug into a car radio thingee.
Or run it by batteries.