After four months of being unemplo... er, occupationally challenged <grin>,
I'm finally going back to work tomorrow. To get there, I will be commuting
by train: 1.5 hours in each direction. To make good use of that time (read:
do some work/studying) I will soon be travelling with a laptop computer. No
problem so far, but I would also like to use it to listen to some music
while I'm working on it.
Dragging CD's along isn't practical; first because it would add to the
weight I have to carry around, second because playing CD's on a laptop is
about the fastest way to drain the batteries. The solution: MP3 files.
But I'll need some software for that.
First, I need software to load music from an audio CD, convert it to MP3
and save it to disk. It should produce high-quality MP3 files; IIRC, not
every program is capable of creating near-CD quality MP3 files. (And with a
12 Gb harddisk, file size isn't something I really care about.)
Next, I need a good player. This program must be able to:
- play just one selected song
- play all songs in a subdirectory, in random order (shuffle play)
- play only the songs I select, in random order
- play only the songs I select, in the order I want to hear them.
Some better-than-the-Windows-default audio controls would be nice, too.
Can anyone recommend me some (preferably free) software (Win95/98) that can
do all this? A flashy interface is merely nice-to-have; as long as both
programs do what they are supposed to do, I'm happy.
Thanks!
Jeroen
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