Victoria said:
whoops, I hit the button and off she went...
So, it says FREE MUSIC on Real Player but maybe that means
just to listen to and not save? I know these are BASIC
BASIC questions but wow, I can cook a great curry but I
can't do this yet and I need to burn some cds to exercise
with at my gym. Any help would be appreciated.
I even have the Jukebox thingy but that seems even more
complicated. cheers, Vic
I'm not familiar with the Real Player service but even if it does allow you
to download songs to your hard drive, they'll be in the proprietary Real
format. I think there are some tools available out there to convert Real
Audio files to other formats like mp3, which you could then burn to a CD,
but these tools are not easily found because the Real people don't like that
sort of thing and are reportedly quite aggressive about making those tools
disappear.
Since you're just starting out with CD burning, I'd recommend starting off
easy just the way I did. Later, you can find out about downloading music
from the binaries newsgroups and, if you dare (you are in the US after all)
Kazaa Lite, but start off by extracting some songs from CDs you already own
or have access to. This process, known as "ripping" will allow you to
collect a bunch of favourite songs on your hard drive as mp3 files, which
you can then use to burn your own custom mix CDs. MusicMatch Jukebox (is
that the "jukebox thingy" you refer to?) can be used to rip songs from a CD.
If you don't have MusicMatch, the burning software which came with your CD
might be able to do the job. Otherwise you could try this excellent
freeware ripper:
http://www.cdex.n3.net/ If someone you know has this Beth
Orton song on CD you could borrow it and include that song in your
collection.
Using the burning software which came with your burner, likely Nero or
EasyCD Creator, it's a simple matter to quickly create a custom audio CD
from a collection of mp3 files. So simple once you know how, that even a 10
or 14 year old could do it!
Regards,
Ian.
