MP3 players

MP3 players
P.S. Can material be transferred from CDs to MP3s or am I asking too much?

Tomkitten- I am glad that you asked that question. I have been waffling around as to whether I should replace my Walkman with either a portable XM radio or an MP3. I don't know a damn thing about MP3s. I will be keeping an eye on your thread.

http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=106397

What you can do is put your audiobooks on your mp3-player. Gotta convert the disc on your 'puter, and let the software take care of it.
Or, if you have an iPod, you can buy audiobooks on iTunes. Costs about the same as a normal audiobook-CD, I guess. The podcasts are for free, though. Lotsa good stuff in there.
Have fun, which ever way you go!

MP3 players
Hi bigdice!

This sounds good, but I want to get the material onto audio cassettes; this way I can store them in a box until wanted.

I bought my first MP3 player earlier this year - a SanDisk 2 Gig.

The only thing I've put on it are files from CDs - language lessons and university lectures.

MP3 players
But can I transfer from a CD directly to an MP3 player? I have just found out that I can make a tape from a CD withou the computer in between.

The only way I know how to do it is to transfer the file from the CD onto the compuer hard drive, and then from the computer hard drive onto the MP3 player.

But then again, I'm mostly illiterate when it comes to consumer electronics. I'm sure other A2Kers know far more than I do on the subject.

Can you really get blank cassettes anymore?
The sweet thing with an mp3player is that it can store so much information, 2GB equals roughly 12 hours of music in a decent quality. Less time the higher the quality. Audiobooks probably more, since you don't need the higher soundquality, and it is less bytes than music, I believe.

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Yes, bigdice, you can get cassette tapes, though not at Walgreen's or CVS. I get mine from Amazon. And one of the great advantages of tapes is that you can store as many as you please, limited only by the space in your house, not by the number of GBs in your player's memory or the memory in your computer.

However, this may sound a bit Luddite, and I do supppose that if I can master the transfer of material from CDs to Computer to MP3, I'll eventually have to do it...

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Cassette tapes don't last forever and they can't be preserved as well. And storage costs for digital files are so low that when you consider the cost of the tapes you also have unlimited storage space for going digital as well.

So yeah, the only real limitation is your familiarity with it. But the good news is that it's very very easy with either iTunes or Media Center (already installed on your PC).

If you want to go that route I can help you with either. But here's a preview of how it might work (depending on what software you decide to use).

- Put cd in (sometimes this will automatically "rip" the CD's tracks to your computer)
- Open your software (e.g. media center) and select "Rip" and you'll be faced with the tracks of the CD (depending on software/settings it will pull in all track/artist info from the internet) and the option to select which ones to rip to your computer.
- Once in your computer the software automatically ads it to your digital library. From your library view you can select what you want to burn to a CD or sync to a device (like an mp3 player). You add songs to your burn or sync list and then a click or two will get that done.

It's remarkably easy to use, and if you have any problems we'll help you.

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Well, I'm not going to last forever, either.