Complete Idiot's Guide to MP3: Music on the Internet - Softcover

Gertler, Nat; Gertle, Nat; Underhill, Rod

9780789720368: Complete Idiot's Guide to MP3: Music on the Internet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789720361 ISBN 13: 9780789720368

Publisher: Alpha, 2000

You've recently found the Stratocaster you had for your garage band in high school. Uncle Jed's banjo and strumming talent have been passed down to you. Puberty has ended, and your once-shrill voice has turned into an angelic, swooning lullaby-maker that you want the world to hear. Or maybe you've just been unsuccessful at getting your tape heard by recording executives who can't even tap along with chopsticks. Get even. Get heard. Get electronic. Get The Complete Idiot's Guide to MP3: Music on the Internet. This light-hearted guide not only shows you the best way to listen to countless artists and their tunes on the Internet, but also reveals the best ways to get your own opus on the market.

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Review:

In The Complete Idiot's Guide to MP3 Music on the Internet, you get the full scoop on MP3 tunes. Covered topics include MP3 player software, portable MP3 hardware, ripping CD tracks, digitizing tapes and records, and publishing your music online. There's also some information on copyright as it applies to MP3 files and a guide to Internet sites that publish MP3--material that's useful for musicians as well as listeners.

The book begins by showing you why MP3 is one of the best digital music formats. For one thing, most MP3 encoded music is legally free of charge. And because it's completely digital, an MP3 file loaded into a handheld player won't skip while you exercise the way CDs can. On the software side, the book focuses on playing MP3s with Winamp. It also covers Virtuosa Gold and MusicMatch Jukebox for ripping, i.e., encoding music files into the MP3 format.

The book devotes more space to the Diamond Rio PMP300 than any other piece of MP3 hardware, but it does an evenhanded job of exploring the other MP3 players available. Perhaps more importantly, the book explains little hardware hacks, such as using a cassette-deck adapter to connect your MP3 device to your car stereo (though it might also have included information on connecting a PC's sound card to a home stereo). About a third of this book is a directory of musicians who have given permission for their MP3 music to appear on the book's companion CD-ROM. --David Wall

About the Author:

Rod Underhill has been appointed legal representative of MP3.com, the public face of this music revolution. He is a recording artist himself as well as a music publisher.

Nat Gertler is a seasoned Complete Idiot's Guide� author and seasoned computer books author for Macmillan USA. His titles include The Complete Idiot's Guide� to Microsoft� PowerPoint� 2000, Easy PCs, Computers Illustrated, The Complete Idiot's Guide� to Sex on the Net, and dozens more.

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