Chapter 11. Music, photos, movies, and games

Managing your digital media libraries

Music

Managing photos and digital images

Watching movies, recorded TV shows, and video clips

Projecting to another screen

Xbox and other forms of online entertainment

Not that long ago, your PC was the indispensable hub of digital media. Music and movies were delivered on shiny discs, and you needed a desktop or laptop PC to rip CDs, watch a movie while traveling, transfer photos from your digital camera, and share your photos on social media.

Today, the explosion of mobile devices and cloud-based entertainment services means the PC is no longer a hub, and shiny discs are now an endangered species. The PC is still uniquely qualified for tasks that involve editing ...

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