Shannon, This is a normal thing to do. First you put a music CD into the drive and "rip" (or "extract," or "save") some or all its tracks to your computer using a program like CDex or the ripping function of othersuch as Easy CD Media Creator, Nero (if you get the function separately after 330 free "samples").
These programs create a new folder on your hard drive, usually under the folder My Music. For instance, if I wanted to put all the songs from Michael Jackson's album Thriller (sorry, couldn't help joking around about Jacko this week), here's what you do: 1. Put the CD in the drive. 2. launch your CD ripping program. 3. perform the ripping procedure, which you'll learn how to do with that program. You can set it to extract the track in one of several formats, including the popular compressed formats .mp3 and .wma (windows media audio), which compress it to a tenth the size of the file on the actual CD, or even smaller, without losing very much sound quality.. w Now the album (or just a track or two from it, if that's what you indicated to the program to work with) is on your hard drive. Probably in a folder sequence that goes c:\my music\michael jackson\triller And if you go to the folder Thriller and tab into the files list view (I'm describing being in Windows Explorer here; others prefer to use the My Computer method), you find a list of all the tracks you ripped. If you just wanted to send your friend the track "Billie Jean," you'd first make sure it was there, then start a new email message. At any time before sending the message, you'd use the Insert menu in your email program to attach "Billie Jean," which would probably appear as billie jean.mp3 in that folder, to the email. Then you'd send the email. When the friend received the email, he or she would click on it (with a mouse if they're sighted, or finding it and opening it with keyboard commands if they're using a screen reader like Jaws), and assuming they have a program like Real Player, Windows Media Player, or Winamp (popular among blind users) set to play .mp3 files, the song would play for them. And they could save it to disfc to hear later, too. Hope that's clear. laer, or Wwith either by noticing it wyour that file but they'l ';xploerr Jacks'omputer----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:16 PM Subject: Re: Nero burn compilation function unavailable Hi Shannon. I think you can do that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:22 PM Subject: Re: Nero burn compilation function unavailable > Hi, am going to start using Nero and had a question. With that program > can > you save tracts of music on your computer as MP3 or whatever to then send > on > to others. I mean tracts from CD that then can be sent? I realize that a > lot of you are proficient at this but am new at it so appreciate any help > and suggestions for settings etc. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Olesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 4:58 PM > Subject: Re: Nero burn compilation function unavailable > > >> Hi >> Well these itemns are different. >> one says make audio cd a disk you can play in your traditional stereo. >> data disk you must use if you want the files to stay in the mp3 format >> untouched. >> >> Best regards >> Brian >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC-Audio" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:49 PM >> Subject: Nero burn compilation function unavailable >> >> >> > Warning. This is going to be a longish post and not written in > efficient, >> > point by point form. So anyone whose time is short or who just doesn't >> > enjoy reading anything that wanders a bit, please don't proceed, okay. > I >> > don't feel like getting flamed, today. I've got some things on my >> > mind, >> > distracting me, and it would take me an hour to edit and revise this > post, >> > and maybe divide it into two separate posts. >> > >> > thanks to anyone who reads it, chuckles a bit at my perplexity,and has > any >> > constructive comments to offer about the issues involved, which I'd >> > like >> > to >> > unravel. >> > >> > Today I opened the Nero 6 submenus from the Start Menu/Programs as I >> > always >> > do, then arrowed to Nero Burning ROM and launched it. >> > >> > Previously, using the tabs or pages that come up automatically when you >> > launch Nero Burning ROM (it took me weeks to figure out the joke in the >> > name, cf. Nero Burning Rome (and "fiddling" all the while, etc.); I'm >> > going >> > to have my IQ checked), I'd copied a couple of CDs and, so far as I >> > remember, burned a couple of compilations (the procedure that one of >> > the >> > other programs calls "projects"), all from these tabs with their >> > options >> > settings and control buttons. >> > >> > But today I wanted to take another look at my actual menus to see how > I'd >> > burn a compilation using the Recorder menu. To my surprise, I > discovered >> > that Burn Compilation, which is the first or second item on the menu, > said >> > Unavailable. The other functions on the menu were all available, >> > including >> > the Copy function. >> > >> > So I started over and launched Nero Burning ROM to see if I could burn >> > a >> > compilation from those tabs that come up by default. As the interface >> > appeared onscreen, I heard Jaws say "unavailable," but then focus was >> > on >> > the >> > first item in a list of burn settings. Ignoring the "unavailable" >> > notification, I set all the settings, managed to figure out how to > locate >> > and list the .mp3 files I wanted to burn to the CD, found the Burn > button >> > and proceeded. >> > >> > The recording process went along fine, and gave me an OK button to > finish, >> > and then I declined to fool around with saving some kind of files or > other >> > to disc so that the procedure was totally finished. >> > >> > And the CD played successfully on both my computer and in the recent >> > vintage >> > (late model)CD changer in my stereo system. >> > >> > Now, this makes it sound as if I accidentally used a CD/RW for the >> > recording, but last night I copied a CD using a blank CD from the same > new >> > package (spindle, actually) of Fuji discs, which my sighted friend > assured >> > me said CD/R at the store, and the music CD copied fine. I mean it > plays >> > on >> > my old Discman-type player, which this burned compilation I'm talking >> > about, >> > won't. All I get is static. >> > >> > So let's assume that Fuji didn't mix CD/R's and CD/RWs together on this >> > spindle, which seems highly unlikely. Is there something I could have >> > done >> > while making the settings in Nero, before finding and pressing the Burn >> > button, that could have produced this effect? The main settings I can >> > remember having chosen are things like write speed 48x, the top > available >> > speed in Nero 6, disc at once, and a couple of other standard settings. >> > No, >> > it wasn't recorded on the fly, though even if it had been, and there'd >> > been >> > flaws in the original, which there aren't, I don't think total static >> > would >> > have resulted. >> > >> > I know this is a fuzzy story, because it starts with my wondering why > the >> > burn compilation function was unavailable yet seemed to work, and then >> > winding up with a bum CD as if I'd mistakenly used a CD/RW. >> > >> > thanks a lot. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > No virus found in this outgoing message. >> > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.9/23 - Release Date: 6/20/2005 >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> > http://www.pc-audio.org >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. 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