CONVERT CD MUSIC FILES (CDA format ) TO MP-3.
1. Kevin told me a few days ago that the files
had to be MP-3 or they would not play.
I verified that CDA files would not play
after internet transfer. Would WMA files
play after internet email? I don't know.
2. He told me I could convert to MP-3 via
Windows Media Player, but I found out
that on my computer at least it required
getting a license to their Player PLUS!
However, when I attempted to download
and purchase that, there was some errror
so that did not work.
3. So I ended up using Record Now and
iTunes mostly. Record Now has it
available for Windows Vista, but I have
Windows XP Home Edition with SP2.
However, help from them found out that
iTunes could do it and also how to use
iTunes to do it.
Record Now was on my computer already
and installation of free iTunes also there.
4. I installed iTunes and also downloaded
installed latest version.
5. This is when things got tricky. RECORD
NOW application and instructions had
somehow become inaccessable, although
it is there somewhere. So I had to play
around with iTunes to get things working
for conversion ( of a CD disk ) to MP-3.
The main requirements are 4:
A. in preferences say "copy to disk"
in advanced instead of default put it
on the internet.
B. There is a Import CD button at the
bottom right of the screen to use and
be sure to click select all songs desired
before suggesting that and also to
watch to progress report go by successively
at the top middle via sliders.
C. Be sure all files are selected via check
mark before you say Import CD else
it gets confusing.
D. You say File/Put in Library somewhere
in their to select. This is confusing where
they should go and exact details of
how to do it, but I managed to struggle
through it finally in this one case.
6. These MP-3 files are HUGE! I don't know if
there is a way to make them a lot larger except
that in iTune preferences I also said to use
the middle of 3 possible qualities of music noise.
7. iTunes does not play the MP-3 files. Windows
Media Player can be used for that.
TRANSFERS OF MP-3 FILES OVER THE INTERNET.-- AND PLAYING THEM.
1. I changed names to be same as song titles, instead of
some ".. track .. " name, via right click/rename. I also
moved them to another directory as a backup in case
further MP-3 conversions of CDs might wipe out the
files .
2. I found out that I can attach as many as I want in an email,
but yahoo at least will only allow sending 2 at a time.
It at least doesn't totally abort -- allows you to
go back to the message and click "remove" on some
of them. Therefore since I have 6 songs to send at
this time of original works, I have to send 3 emails
with them.
3. I have high-speed internet and even then an attach
takes 10 minutes of one of them. I could start multiple
attaches and allow myself to go away not having to
watch progress all the time, but that didn't seem to
save a lot of time, just some convenience. This
would be much slower attaching/uploading if you
have just a dial-up connection. Because of this I
suggest that those of you with dial-up that might
ever in the future want to send these to other friends
should leave the yahoo email messages with them in
your yahoo account ( if you have accounts elsewhere
figure it out for yourselves ). Regardless of how you
get the email formed ( with just 2 MP-3 attachments )
the internal email transfer goes very fast even with
dial-up I presume unless going across the world
is an issue etc.
4. At high-speed internet, both download open and
download save took less than a minute for each file.
However one friend with dial-up said that download
took a long time, but you might want to do it anyway
for several reasons -- just say Download ALL and
go away for awhile. Don't do an Download open
unless you want to come back to yahoo every time
you want to play it.
5. What folder on your hard disk to put things when
you download save may depend on the application
which you intend to use to play them, in order to
get the most convenience from it. Unknown so far.
I had put them in a iTunes folder somewhere, but
am using Windows Media Player to play them.
6. Windows Media Player when you use a CD allows
you to say "play all songs on the CD". When put in
an iTunes folder as I did it only allows to say "File/Open"
and play one at a time, which is a big inconvenience. It
would be nice if you could either say -- play everything
in this folder, or play every selected file in this folder.
So it is a little tedious playing MP-3 files via
Windows Media Player so far.
7. One of the songs would not email transfer under new yahoo email.
However it did under yahoo classic email. This was Venus
Playgirl.
