Easy Digital Music

Book description

Your home PC is a virtual concert just waiting to happen. Your PC can become a complete audio entertainment center with song you download or tracks already in your music collection. Easy Digital Music will teach you the basics of creating, enhancing, organizing and distributing digital music on your PC. Discover the best websites for downloading music, ways to convert your cassettes and record albums into digital music files and tips on using iTunes, Roxio Easy Media Creator 7, Windows Media Player and MusicMatch software. Digital music can be easily transferred to other computers or your MP3 player and Easy Digital Music will show you how it's done. Create a soundtrack for your life at work, at home and at play.

Table of contents

  1. Contents (1/2)
  2. Contents (2/2)
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 Understanding Digital Music
    1. Creating Your Own Wave File
    2. Saving the Wave File
    3. Playing Your Sound File
    4. Quality Comparisons
    5. What Is CD Quality?
    6. Playing Your Sound File
    7. What Is MP3?
    8. Using System Sounds
    9. Using MIDI Sound Files
    10. Legal Issues and File Types
    11. Subscription and Streaming Formats
    12. Charting the PC Formats
  5. 2 Getting Digital Music with Easy Media Creator 7
    1. Getting Started with Easy Media Creator 7
    2. Ripping a CD
    3. Burning an Audio CD from Saved Files
    4. Burning a “Real” Audio CD
    5. Creating an MP3 Disc
    6. Creating an Image File Using Disc Details
    7. Burning an Image File
    8. Copying an Audio CD
    9. Continuing a CD Project
    10. Setting Project Properties
    11. Capturing Music from LPs or Cassettes
    12. Recording into Sound Editor
  6. 3 Using Napster for Online Music
    1. Napster Lets You Create a Library of Online Music
    2. Setting Up Napster
    3. Exploring the Napster Window
    4. Using the Napster Library
    5. Using the Napster Playlist
    6. Burning Your Playlist
    7. Finding Tracks on Napster
    8. Buying a Track from Napster
    9. Using Your Napster Tracks
    10. Checking or Adding MP3 Tags
    11. Going Deeper into Napster
    12. Checking the Charts and Collections
    13. Connecting a Portable Device
  7. 4 Getting Organized with Media Manager
    1. Accessing Your Files with Media Manager
    2. Using Collections in Media Manager
    3. The Media Manager Workspace
    4. Burning Your Collections
    5. Adding Tags and Using Search
    6. Renaming Files in Media Manager
    7. Scanning Your Computer for Media Files
    8. Playing Music from Media Manager
  8. 5 Enjoying Your Music on the PC
    1. Choosing Your Default Media Player
    2. Using Windows Media Player
    3. Creating Playlists in Windows Media Player
    4. Playing Internet Radio with Media Player
    5. AutoPlaylists and Tagging in Media Player
    6. Special Effects in Media Player
    7. Setting Up Speakers and Headphones
    8. Connecting to a Sound System
    9. Recording Music from the PC
    10. Using Cables and Plugs
    11. The Newest Gizmos
  9. 6 Editing Your Music
    1. Putting Track Transitions on an Audio CD (Creator Classic)
    2. Adding a Narration Audio Track
    3. Merging and Splitting Tracks
    4. Sound Editor Basics
    5. Applying an Effect to the Whole Song (Normalize)
    6. Applying an Effect to Part of a Track (DeClick)
    7. Enhancing and Equalizing
    8. Inserting Audio
    9. Changing File Type and Size
    10. Creating a Tiny WMA File
  10. 7 Distributing Your Music
    1. Choosing an MP3 Player
    2. Installing Your MP3 Player
    3. Accessing Your Player with Napster
    4. Transferring Files with Napster
    5. Using the MP3 Player
    6. Burning Music Discs as Computer Files
    7. Using a USB Jump Drive
    8. Setting Up a Wireless Router
    9. Sharing Your Music Folders on a Network
    10. Using Your Music Network
  11. 8 Using Popular Music Programs
    1. Installing an MP3 Player Program (Rio Music Manager)
    2. Completing Music Manager Setup
    3. Using Rio Music Manager
    4. Moving Your Music with Rio Music Manager
    5. Using Playlists in Rio Music Manager
    6. Playing with iTunes
    7. Creating iTunes Playlists
    8. Using Smart Playlists in iTunes
    9. Creating Your Own Smart Playlist
    10. Using iTunes on the Network
    11. Using MusicMatch
    12. MusicMatch Radio
    13. Personalizing MusicMatch
    14. Downloading from MusicMatch
    15. MusicMatch Playlists
    16. MusicMatch AutoDJ
    17. Using MusicMatch Jukebox on the Network
  12. Index
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E
    6. F
    7. G-H
    8. I
    9. J-K
    10. L
    11. M
    12. N
    13. O
    14. P
    15. Q-R
    16. S
    17. T
    18. U
    19. V
    20. W-Z

Product information

  • Title: Easy Digital Music
  • Author(s): Tom Bunzel
  • Release date: August 2004
  • Publisher(s): Que
  • ISBN: 9780789738943