Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-18 Thread Dana S. Leslie
- From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:07 AM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Scott! Of course the best thing would be to save your CD content as Wave files but if you can't

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-18 Thread Scott Blanks
now. Thanks again, Scott - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:09 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Scott. I'm using windows media player

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-18 Thread Peter Scanlon
was still very good, and I got the total size of my collection down to just over 40gigs. Dana - Original Message - From: Jerry Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:07 AM Subject: Re: transferring music collection

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
:13 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Gary. I'm not sure what you mean by making a play list? How do I do that? They talk about it on the Winamp For The Blind list. If you'd like to write me off-list, my email address is at the bottom of this message. Thanks

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-17 Thread Kathy and Tom
-audio.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:57 AM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Playlist, blah-blah-blah.m3u. Standard text file with the names of the selections you want played in the order you want them played. If you put the selections in subdirectories

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-17 Thread Kathy and Tom
PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:34 AM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kathy. Just a word of warning to let you know that I

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin Lloyd
-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kathy and Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 12:11 AM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Oh! Kevin! I bet that's the problem. So, what did

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-16 Thread Gary Petraccaro
Make a play list and see what happens? - Original Message - From: Kathy and Tom To: PC audio discussion list. Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kevin. I have a dvd player. It's a Tosheba, 5 cd changer

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-16 Thread Kathy and Tom
discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 2:59 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kathy. Yes, that's exactly what I did. Copied and pasted the tracks directly into a nero compilation and then burned as an MP3 disc. There were

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-16 Thread Kathy and Tom
collection to hard drive Make a play list and see what happens? - Original Message - From: Kathy and Tom To: PC audio discussion list. Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kevin. I have a dvd player. It's

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-16 Thread Gary Petraccaro
the raw list by using Winamp. - Original Message - From: Kathy and Tom To: PC audio discussion list. Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 6:13 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Gary. I'm not sure what you mean by making a play list? How do I do

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin Lloyd
] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:23 AM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kevin. I have a dvd player. It's a Tosheba, 5 cd changer. It plays cds, dvds, mp3s, and wma files. A friend tried to help me use

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin Lloyd
: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kevin! With the DVD player I have now, I can play the WMA files I have on some disks, where I wasn't able to on my previous DVD player! I guess that more MP3 CD players are allowing for the WMA format! - Original Message - From

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-15 Thread Gary Wood
: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:06 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kathy. I have a Panasonic DVD player that will play MP3 files. However, you have to have all tracks at the root level. That is, you can't play MP3 files that have been saved in folders that are burned

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-15 Thread Gary Wood
Hi Kevin. I guess maybe I should make my next burns WMA's! - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:09 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Yep, you can see

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-15 Thread Kathy and Tom
- From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:06 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kathy. I have a Panasonic DVD player that will play MP3 files. However, you have to have all tracks

transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-14 Thread Scott Blanks
Hi folks, I have a number of cd's that I am considering copying to my hard drive; I've had those discs for many years and I am concerned about deterioration and/or scratching, etc. However, I don't know what file format I should convert the tracks into. I have free versions of Real Player and

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-14 Thread Matthew Bullis
Well, I use mp3 at 160 kb. However, if it is possible to tell from your collection, you might want to put any out-of-print cd's into a lossless compression format for archiving. Flac will do very nicely, though you'll have to get the tracks into .wav format first. If you're going to do flac, write

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-14 Thread Jerry Richer
Scott! Of course the best thing would be to save your CD content as Wave files but if you can't afford the space then I would suggest that you save them as MP3. Other formats probably yield better quality audio such as OGG or WMA but they are no where near as popular and versatile. For

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-14 Thread Kevin Lloyd
: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:46 AM Subject: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi folks, I have a number of cd's that I am considering copying to my hard drive; I've had those discs for many years and I am concerned about deterioration and/or scratching, etc. However, I don't know what

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-14 Thread Gary Wood
discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:09 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Scott. I'm using windows media player to archive my CD collection using WMA lossless as my choice of format. As it says, it's a lossless format and so

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-14 Thread Kathy and Tom
: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:00 PM Subject: Re: transferring music collection to hard drive Hi Kevin! With the DVD player I have now, I can play the WMA files I have on some disks, where I wasn't able to on my previous DVD player! I guess that more MP3 CD players are allowing for the WMA

Re: transferring music collection to hard drive

2005-09-14 Thread JG
Hi Scott I have a number of cd's that I am considering copying to my hard drive; I've had those discs for many years and I am concerned about deterioration and/or scratching, etc. However, I don't know what file format I should convert the tracks into. I have free versions of Real Player and