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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Where can I get a good, legal, free MP3 encoder? If you download CDEX (from www.cdex.n3.net) and unzip it into a directory, then execute the main file, cdex.exe, it has options to go from CD to WAV, CD to MP3, WAV to MP3, and MP3 to WAV. For the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is the best free MP3 encoder? It depends exactly how you define «free» and how you propose to determine the «best». I wouldn’t presume to make an authoritative statements about the best, but if you download CDEX...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How can I make a compilation CD with tracks from various CDs I have? Two good (free) ripper programs are CDEX from: www.cdex.n3.net And Exact Audio Copy (good if you have hardware which presents you with difficulties in the area of Digital Audio...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is the best software to make MP3 files without losing quality? Aargh! This is an *endless* conversation. Try searching on Deja News for group alt.music.mp3 and topic «best mp3» – you’ll find tons of stuff. Also search...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What format do I have to put my songs in to play them on my stereo? To actually play on an audio CD player the music has to be recorded in standard audio CD format, which is different to the format used for data CD ROM disks. The audio data is...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is there a free MP3 encoder that works under Windows NT? CDEX, available from: www.cdex.n3.net will convert WAV files to MP3 using either the Blade or the LAME encoder (both included). It does not require any special install – you simply...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I burn audio CDs from MP3 files at different bitrates and sampling rates? The bitrate is not relevant to the CD format – the bitrate is a measure of how severely the data was compressed, but once the file has been converted to a WAV...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is there an encoder to encode multiple wav files in a batch? Yes, BladeEnc, available from: Homepage: http://bladeenc.home.ml.org It doesn’t have a pretty GUI interface – you either just drag files and drop them right onto the exe in...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I’m Getting Errors When I Try To Burn A CD. What Can I Do? There are numerous things you can try: Reboot your PC before burning a CD. Remove any unnecessary programs from memory (use CTRL-ALT-DELT to bring up the task list, and then use the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What do «ripping» and «encoding» mean? «Ripping» refers to the process of extracting audio data from an audio CD (generally via Digital Audio Extraction, rather than via an analogue recording link) and storing...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Where can I get a version of the Fraunhofer codec? If you go to www.winfiles.com and from their search page search for a program called «l3encwin», you can download it, and you will find that it has the old Frauenhofer l3enc.exe and...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I have some WAV files and when I try to burn them to an audio CD, the burner software rejects them – why? The problem is almost certainly that whilst they are indeed valid WAV files, they are *not* valid files for CD audio. CD audio *only*...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Do all CD ROM drives support «ripping» of audio tracks? Unfortunately not. Any CD drive can play audio CDs, it’s true. But the term «ripping» is mostly used to refer to Digital Audio Extraction (i.e. extracting the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I get BladeEnc to encode at a bitrate other than 128 kbps? You just put it in as a parameter. You *must* execute BladeEnc from the command line if you want to use a different bitrate – the «drag-and-drop» method *only*...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 My ripper program won’t recognise my CD drive – what can I do? One thing I’d suggest is that you go to the Adaptec site. Adaptec have a little program called aspichk.exe, which is available in the download area of their website...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do you record MP3 from Cassette Tapes? Just plug the output from your tape player into the «Line In» socket on your sound card… I use a Sony Walkman with Dolby to do cassettes myself, and then all you need is a cable with...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What are the best quality blank CDr’s on the market? Personally I have used Kodak, Sony, Fuji and Samsung without problems. I have had some problems with some other brands. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How does Napster link to MP3 files? Well Napster doesn’t really deal in ‘links’ at all in the conventional sense. It basically allows the people using it to access files on each other’s hard drives. So you can get files...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Winamp skips and stutters when playing MP3 – what can I do? Winamp will skip at times on the best of machines, especially when a dialup network connection is established, for example. But if skipping occurs more frequently, the problem is...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is Napster safe to use? Well that’s certainly the *theory*. But how sure can anyone be sure that it’s totally true? Certainly programs running on your computer *can* allow outside parties to do all sorts of things on your machine via...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 When I play MP3 through Winamp it plays to softly.what can I do ? There are quite a few things you can do: 1) Don’t use the Nullsoft DirectSound plugin for output – this creates a lower output volume (check using Ctrl-P for...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I downloaded some MP3s from the web and they’re all screwy. Why? You may need a program like Uncook, Phix or Detox to repair your files. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I can’t access the MP3 binary newsgroups – how do I get access? If the binaries newsgroups don’t appear on your server’s list of groups, then this presumably means that your server doesn’t carry them. Some...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 When I play MP3 in Winamp it won’t play loud at all – why? Click on the top left corner to bring up the main menu, select Options, then Preferences. Select Output in the left hand window. You should see the Wave Out plugin selected in...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I downloaded some cool songs from this web site that I found; should I upload them? if they are legal. top of the page
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I download MP3 files from newsgroups, joining all the parts and decoding them? Forget Netscape for this. There are various programs you can use. Fort‚ Agent is a good dedicated newsreader. Even Microsoft Outlook Express will do a...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Why does Winamp keep trying to go online and access «CDDB» when I play a CD? How do I stop it? Using the CDDB is an option in Winamp. It’s actually very handy – it goes out over the net and accesses the CDDB site and,...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I used to use this cool thing called Agent-MP3. I cant find the place where I got it. Where is it? Agent-MP3 is apparently gone. Agent-MP3 was merely another way to look at your own newsgroups on your own ISP’s server. It could not do more...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I get MP3 files from multi-part usenet posts with Netscape? Netscape is pretty useless in that department. The only way you can do it is to save all the parts in the right order into a file on your hard disk, and then convert them with a...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I use Winamp skins that I’ve downloaded? With the latest versions of Winamp, you don’t need to unzip the skins at all – just put the skin zip file into {winamp install directory}\skins\ top of the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What about Napster? Napster was a very popular new way to acquire MP3s. The demise of Napster has brought a lot of new blood to the MP3 hierarchy (with a lot of habits that do not necessarily work well on Usenet). Napster has often had MP3s of...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I get an MP3 file from the all the separate parts in a newsgroup using Outlook Express? You select multiple files in Outlook Express the same way you select multiple files anywhere else in Windows: * Click on one file to start. * Either...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I use new Winamp skins I’ve downloaded? It’s *extremely* simple. Just put the zip files that you downloaded into the «skins» directory under your Winamp directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Winamp\Skins) and then when...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How can I record my MP3 songs to an audio tape to play in my car / walkman? Yes… just connect the «Line-out» from your soundcard to an «Aux-in» or something of the sort on your recorder. Don’t use «Phono...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 When I play MP3 files, can I mix one song into another ? If you just want the songs to merge together somewhat, with a new song coming up as the old one fades away, you can use the Nullsoft Cross-Fader Plugin, which you can download from...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Will Winamp play MP3 on a 486? Old, old,old. Of course, Yes it will. You will probably need to change some options to get it to play well. For example, go to the mainmenu / Visualization / Visualization Mode and select «Off» –...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I download MP3 files from newsgroups with Netscape? Basically no. You really need to switch to a different program for newsreading. Netscape is simply incapable of combining and decoding attachments spread over multiple messages. The *only*...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I play the output from my computer MP3 player through my home stereo? Yeah, I have both the computers I regularly use connected to stereo systems by cables – I just bought cables from Radio Shack, with a stereo 1/8″ plug on one...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What do «sampling rate» and «bitrate» mean when describing MP3 files? The sampling frequency is basically the number of times per second audio is sampled and stored as a number – CD audio is sampled at 44.1 KHz,...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What’s a good MP3 search engine ? If you go to www.audiovalley.com you can access pretty much all the main search engines from a single page. Kermit, Lycos and Scour seem to produce the most results, usually… When I search for MP3,...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I downloaded MP3 files and they skip / play fast / make weird noises – what can I do? It may be that you have MP3 files that are «cooked»… that is at some point they have been transferred using an incorrect MIME type and...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is there an MP3 database to help me keep track of all my MP3 files? I think you’re looking for a program such a MP3 Explorer. Actually there are (confusingly) two programs called MP3 Explorer, one from Trashsoft and one from another...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What is the best MP3 search engine ? I don’t know which the best is really – it depends what you’re looking for and changes from day to day. But www.audiovalley.com provides access to most of the major engines all from a single...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is it possible to get hi-fi output playing MP3 files from a computer through a stereo system? Well… I do play my MP3 files through my stereo systems, both in my office and in the living room. But what I’m doing is not really...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What information is contained in ID3 tags, and how can I manipulate it? The ID3 tag format is basically standard, I believe… the data elements are Title, Artist, Album, Year, Genre, and Comment. There are database programs for tracking and...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I get MP3 files from FTP sites? You can always try just clicking on the link as it is presented in your browser from the search engine… this might just work. However, it often won’t work, for a number of reasons. One very...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is it possible to play MP3 files from CD ROM data disks? Yes, this should work fine, so long as your system is fairly powerful / not too overloaded. My living room system is a Pentium II and I never had a problem with that. The office system is...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What bitrate for MP3 files will give «CD quality»? Aw heck… this is another of those questions that people debate *endlessly*. There really is no one answer – it depends on your ears, your equipment, etc. I think...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What does a message like «New FTP site: 24.30.138.13 USER mp3 password mp3 port: 21 Ratio is 1/3» mean? You either put this info into an FTP client such as WS-FTP or CuteFTP… in which case you’d enter...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Will uncook95.exe fix the problems with my MP3 files? Uncook95 doesn’t remove «pops» from MP3 files in any general sense. It does one, very specific task, which is to fix MP3 files that have been messed up («cooked»)...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 What kbps and kHz rate should I record at for CD quality? Frequently asked question which people can discuss endlessly. KHz measures the sampling frequency in kilo-hertz – that is it indicated the number of thousands of samples per second...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Can I access FTP sites using my browser? You can access FTP sites with your browser. If you type into the URL box in your browser the following: ftp://userid:password@server.name/directory:port where: «userid» is the user logon id...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I create a Winamp playlist containing a whole bunch of MP3 files I have on disk? Just click on the «+file» button and hold down your mouse button – you’ll see that two other buttons appear above it labelled...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Is there a «standard level» for digital recording? Well it’s a tricky question. In one sense, a standard might be to adjust the recording process so that the highest peak in each song uses 100% of the sample capacity – and...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I download MP3 files from the web, but they just disappear after a while – why? Probably what is happening is that you are simply clicking on the links to the MP3 files and you have a plugin installed for your browser which is capable of...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 How do I put files on the Winamp playlist? If your playlist isn’t already displayed, click the «PL» button to display it. Then on the Playlist window either click the +FILE button and add the files one at a time or click the...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 I’m clicking a web link for an MP3 song and getting an «.htm» file instead – what’s the problem? If you’re winding up with an .htm extension, you’re probably not dealing with links that point directly to...
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Thursday, 02 May 2019 Why don’t my Winamp playlists play in order? In the main window is the little green light in the «Shuffle» button on (change Skin to if you’re having trouble finding the Shuffle button)? If so, click it to turn off Shuffle...
