Music on the Go
New to Media Player is the ability to record CDs. Windows XP itself has the ability to burn CDs, as does Media Player. The application can still transcode and copy files to portable digital media devices and personal digital assistants (PDAs) (see Figure 29.8), but the addition of CD burning capability really increases portability.
Figure 29.8. Media Player copying music to a mobile device.
Tip
Transcoding is what Microsoft's term for converting one media format to another (MP3 to WMA) and resampling the media to make it smaller (128Kb/s to 32Kb/s).
There are three ways to get audio files to CD and device: audio CD, digital media ...
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