[Dixielandjazz] Mp3 ARE iPods!? Or are they?

[Scott Anthony]

Martin et al,

Yes, there are other MP3 players besides the iPod and they are all quite 
good as far as I know. I would also assume that the other MP3 players come 
with software that functions like iTunes. I like iTunes however, mostly 
because it does the best job of "ripping" the tracks from a CD of any 
similar software that I've used. I recently ripped all the San Francisco 
Traditional Jazz Foundation CDs for the Foundation webmaster so he could 
extract samples for the website. I had to do it twice because I first used a 
piece of software that garbled a lot of the tracks. iTunes did it perfectly.

In order to break up a long string of tunes into separate ones, you need an 
audio editor. There is a really good free one called Audacity 
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows). In order to export MP3 
files from Audacity, you will also need an MP3 encoder that is available 
free from the same site. I think the reason you need to get this as a 
separate "plug in" is because the inventors of the MP3 format charge an 
unbelievable licensing fee for anyone writing software that encodes MP3. If 
you are someone like Adobe (who bought the company that created CoolEdit 
Pro), you can afford the fee, but smaller software developers can't. 
Anyway...

With an audio editor, you first load a track into the editor and then you 
can actually see the "picture" of the audio data (like on an occilloscope 
sp?), highlight the part you want to extract (like in a word processor), and 
then export it to a separate file.

Scott Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Nichols" <marnichols at yahoo.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 11:04 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Mp3 ARE iPods!? Or are they?


> Scott and listmates,
>
>  My g-daughter told me that iPod is only one brand of mp3 player-- that 
> any mp3 player does that. Do you agree? Another question this "novice" 
> has: When I have a CD
> that unfortunately has several tunes on a single track, how can I separate 
> the tunes on Itunes
> so that I can upload a single tune to myspace? Myspace won't accept a 
> string of tunes at once.
> Duh! Gee tanks!
> Marty Nichols
>
> [quote]Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:22:17 -0800
> From: "Scott Anthony"
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 47, Issue 28
> To: "Bill Gunter" , ,
>
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>  The software that comes with the iPod is called iTunes. When you plug
> the
> iPod into your computer, iTunes runs automatically and "synchs"
> whatever is
> in your desktop PC library to the iPod. You can also recharge the iPod
> battery using the USB connection while you're synching. There is an AC
> adapter that comes with the iPod that actually plugs into the USB
> cable, so
> charging from the AC source is almost the same.
>  When you insert a CD into you CD drive, iTunes also runs automatically
> and
> all you have to do is click on an import button on the iTunes window,
> and
> the CD is automatically "ripped" to your iTunes library. If you are
> connected to the internet when you do this, iTunes even goes out to a
> database called GraceNote and tries to retrieve the song titles and
> other
> information about the CD. You can set up iTunes to import the CD files
> as
> MP3s or WAV (much bigger - like 10 to 11 times the size of MP3) or
> Apple's
> own AIFF file format (small like MP3).
>  Everything is automatic if you set it up that way. iPods are really
> great,
> especially in the car. I have used the FM transmitter method of
> listening
> through the car radio, but often you have to switch frequencies because
> of
> interference depending on the location. I've found the inexpensive
> cassette
> adapters better - just plug the adapter into the iPod's earphone jack
> and
> insert the adapter into the car's tape player (if your car stereo has
> one)
> and listen.
>  Scott Anthony[/quote
>
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