Recording: Music, MP3, and CD's..?

[cosmicB]

I'm trying to get into the PC music thing.. loading music Cd's, removing protections, reformatting songs to MP3, loading this new MP3, recording music CD's, recording DVD's, and such... It's a big Yuck!.. I am having one hell of a time trying to get it all working... I downloaded, and installed loaded a bunch of CD and music softwares, and they messed-up the W2000-OS so bad that I was forced to format-C, and start fresh...
Seems those softwares compete for the Internet, and more.. and some are just downright evil... How Do you do it?.. Which are the best and safest compatible softwares?.. I surf the Net for it, and everyone is claiming to be the best, but when I try them, they are just poo...

I've got Nero in this OS, but I think it's too big a program.. and it doesn't seems to be good for anything... WMP-9 is nice, but it files my songs the way it wants to, and makes it difficult to place a music file on the desktop for recording purposes... When I installed all the pretty WMP visual-addons they seriously damaged the OS...

What is the Best media player for working with music?..

Is there anywhere to acquire free oldies music, without it damaging the OS?..

[Mirrorball]

I'm trying to get into the PC music thing.. loading music Cd's, removing protections, reformatting songs to MP3, loading this new MP3, recording music CD's, recording DVD's, and such... It's a big Yuck!.. I am having one hell of a time trying to get it all working... I downloaded, and installed loaded a bunch of CD and music softwares, and they messed-up the W2000-OS so bad that I was forced to format-C, and start fresh...
Seems those softwares compete for the Internet, and more.. and some are just downright evil... How Do you do it?.. Which are the best and safest compatible softwares?.. I surf the Net for it, and everyone is claiming to be the best, but when I try them, they are just poo...

I've got Nero in this OS, but I think it's too big a program.. and it doesn't seems to be good for anything... WMP-9 is nice, but it files my songs the way it wants to, and makes it difficult to place a music file on the desktop for recording purposes... When I installed all the pretty WMP visual-addons they seriously damaged the OS...

What is the Best media player for working with music?..

Is there anywhere to acquire free oldies music, without it damaging the OS?..

Try this. You right click and it converts waves not sure about wma's.

http://www.wma-mp3.com/all-to-mp3-converter.html

[cosmicB]

Thanks!..

I just downloaded Symantec's Security Suite.. and it's been scanning for an hour... It scanned only 4200 files, and already has found 2700 trojans, worms, and exploits, probably from the music softwares I downloaded and installed... Me thinks I should just go buy my music softwares from a computer shop...

Try Symantec's Security Suite... http://multicore-antivirus-antispyware.nuwave-software.qarchive.org/

Me thinks I'm gonna format this drive.. and use this tower just for my safe Interneting.. and setup a separate tower for the music stuff... I bet by the time this AVS has finished its scan it'll have found 30,000 in this hd... This bug thing is why the Internet will be policed, and why soon we all will have to pay per email to support the decriminalization of the Internet...

[Mirrorball]

Thanks!..

I just downloaded Symantec's Security Suite.. and it's been scanning for an hour... It scanned only 4200 files, and already has found 2700 trojans, worms, and exploits, probably from the music softwares I downloaded and installed... Me thinks I should just go buy my music softwares from a computer shop...

Try Symantec's Security Suite... http://multicore-antivirus-antispyware.nuwave-software.qarchive.org/

Me thinks I'm gonna format this drive.. and use this tower just for my safe Interneting.. and setup a separate tower for the music stuff... I bet by the time this AVS has finished its scan it'll have found 30,000 in this hd... This bug thing is why the Internet will be policed, and why soon we all will have to pay per email to support the decriminalization of the Internet...

I used to be able to covert wma's to mp3 for my mp3 player, but for some reason it won't rip them anymore, must be the DRM, they show up on the mp3 player but won't play. If you made the wma you can rip it with this.

[PlasticAnnArbor]

search hear for Audio software
100% virus free
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=113
and here for video
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=125
and for cd/dvd rippers ans converters
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=640
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"wma's to mp3" mp3 is SO full of patented code it is almost unusable
use mplayer and mencoder
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
this will bypass most DRM by ignoring it
and so will VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[Mirrorball]

search hear for Audio software
100% virus free
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=113
and here for video
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=125
and for cd/dvd rippers ans converters
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=640
-----------------------------
"wma's to mp3" mp3 is SO full of patented code it is almost unusable
use mplayer and mencoder
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
this will bypass most DRM by ignoring it
and so will VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It rips older wma's to mp3 but for some reason when I got a new laptop, it wouldn't. WMP changed all my files automatically and when I purchased wma's from a download store, it won't convert them to the mp3 player. I dragged them across and copied them but they still won't play.

[boingo]

search hear for Audio software
100% virus free
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=113
and here for video
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=125
and for cd/dvd rippers ans converters
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=640
-----------------------------
"wma's to mp3" mp3 is SO full of patented code it is almost unusable
use mplayer and mencoder
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
this will bypass most DRM by ignoring it
and so will VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It rips older wma's to mp3 but for some reason when I got a new laptop, it wouldn't. WMP changed all my files automatically and when I purchased wma's from a download store, it won't convert them to the mp3 player. I dragged them across and copied them but they still won't play.

That seems like copyright protection. I'm sure there's something out there that will convert them while bypassing the copyright protection. It's perfectly legal to do that in Australia because we have fair-use laws that allow us to copy between formats so long as we still have the original media or downloaded file we paid for.

[PlasticAnnArbor]

as much as the RIAA tries to say otherwise Making a backup copy of your music you bought is 100% legal in the US ,Tampering with the DRM - that is a bit gray .

When you got a new laptop the DRM was not and( most likely ) can not transfered to the new machine .Windows media player will not let you play the music you paid $$$ for , it thinks it is STOLEN music.
that is why windows media player IS NOT INSTALLED on my xp drive .I use VLC and MPlayer with the Gnome MPlayer front end ( GMplayer) on windows .
this is also one ,of many, reasons i don't run windows unless i have to or to play a direct X 9c game .

[Mirrorball]

as much as the RIAA tries to say otherwise Making a backup copy of your music you bought is 100% legal in the US ,Tampering with the DRM - that is a bit gray .

When you got a new laptop the DRM was not and( most likely ) can not transfered to the new machine .Windows media player will not let you play the music you paid $$$ for , it thinks it is STOLEN music.
that is why windows media player IS NOT INSTALLED on my xp drive .I use VLC and MPlayer with the Gnome MPlayer front end ( GMplayer) on windows .
this is also one ,of many, reasons i don't run windows unless i have to or to play a direct X 9c game .

yeah this is the problem I was having playing files I bought from a download store. It's rubbish if you've paid for downloads and transferred them to your new machine, and WMP won't play them. Can't listen to any of them on an mp3 player anymore.

[PlasticAnnArbor]

why do you think i don't use MS products ( only sometimes xp.I WILL NOT PAY /USE VISTA or windows 7 - due in 2010 )

[cosmicB]

MS is destined to go bankrupt in about 10 to 15 years... Why do you think Gates sold it to the pig-trough..?

A couple years ago if you searched "Linux" on the Net, and found just a couple forums, and a lot of hard to answer questions...
Now a search finds half a billion websites:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=linux&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Linux people are real people... They are generally friendly, and willing to help a newbie...
On the other-hand, go into a posh MS forum with a silly question, and you get shitt upon from every direction, by the forum spiders, mostly in your face...

MS is on its way out... They've been greedy-pigs to humanity for too long... All MS is, is a money-sucking vacuum... It'll be good to see them big-time hurting... They still police W98, the assholes!.. They need to squeeze every penny due to them, as if they don't have enough to let the little things slide... They're PIGS!...

[Mirrorball]

when I was searching for laptops, they all came with Vista. It takes so long to open the welcome centre, it conflicts with the phone software and crashes all the time, it's pants.

[boingo]

when I was searching for laptops, they all came with Vista. It takes so long to open the welcome centre, it conflicts with the phone software and crashes all the time, it's pants.

Vista has an XP "rollback" function, but I've forgotten how it's supposed to work. (I don't have Vista, so I haven't tried it.)

[PlasticAnnArbor]

ONLY on vista ultimate and enterprise can you downgrade to XP BUT for an extra $50 to do so .

[Mirrorball]

when I was searching for laptops, they all came with Vista. It takes so long to open the welcome centre, it conflicts with the phone software and crashes all the time, it's pants.

Vista has an XP "rollback" function, but I've forgotten how it's supposed to work. (I don't have Vista, so I haven't tried it.)

If I knew how to do that, I'd get shot of vista, it's rubbish. Everytime I switch it on, it takes 10 minutes to load the welcome centre and when I upload pics I can't just upload them simply, it has an annoying sign saying "Allow". I can't even see my pics in the folder anymore, they have images of trees on them all.