You can legally and in good conscience use and enjoy an MP3 player. An MP3 is a special compression code used to store music using less space. You may remember the now extinct Napster service where millions of people shared songs online using the MP3 format and the ongoing battle the music industry is fighting against ‘song swapping’.
If you have your own CD collection, you can create your own digital music collection using your computer and not worry about the ethics or legality of downloading music. Then transfer those songs to an MP3 player to take with you on a walk, to the gym or on a trip.
These little devices take up a fraction of the space a CD player take and weigh next to nothing…and you don’t have to carry any CD’s! In fact, some of them will hold hundreds of albums worth of music in the space no bigger than a pack of cigarettes.
To get the songs from your CD’s to your computer, I recommend using Microsoft Windows Media Player. I like this method for a few reasons. It’s fairly quick, compresses the music into almost 1/2 the size of the already small MP3 format and when online will organize the music into albums for you.
Here’s how it is done:
1. Click Start Programs Windows Media Player
2. Insert your music CD
3. When the CD loads Click the “Copy from CD” button
4. Your songs will appear (with the names if you are online)
5. Uncheck the songs you don’t want to copy
6. Click the Copy Music button
7. Wait for the copying to finish (about five minutes for a full album usually)
8.The music will now be stored in your My Documents folder in a sub-folder called My Music (unless you’ve changed the preferences to your fancy)
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