Re: Podcast - Have MP3 player -Now what?
- From: Randy Berbaum <rberbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 06:03:47 +0000 (UTC)
Ms Simba <neuend1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: I have bought an MP3 player (looks like a CD player and is as far as I
: know). I have never used it. Somewhere someone mentioned that you can
: use an MP3 player to listen to Disney Podcasts (not sure what these are
: either). Are they talking about a different type of MP3 player like
: those very expensive IPods?
: I am behind the times in my knowledge. I don't even know what you play
: on an MP3 player. I think you download music to your hard drive in a
: certain format then copy it onto a CD. Is this correct?
I have not explored podcasts but I can advise about MP3 players. As I
understand it, podcasts are in general a packaged program recorded as a
single mp3 file and distributed in that form. So the content of the file
may be a single song or a complete program and thus whe following advice
would work for both.
First there are several types of MP3 player. Some are very tiny with only
built in memory that you connect to your computer (normally with a USB
cable) and copy mp3 files from your computer to the on board memory. Then
you can unplug the cord and carry your player anywhere. Another type is
very similar to the first but it includes a memory card slot to hold a
standard mamory card (normally an "SD" card). Since the card capacity (or
"size") varys with the specific card you use it is possible to load many
many hours of music into your player. I have one card that has nearly 24
hours of music loaded on it. Then there are MP3 players that resemble a
portable CD player or even "boom box". These play a CD that has MP3 files
stored on it. Many will also play standard CDs. If you have a CD burner
on your computer (there are many of us who don't) you can burn as many
mp3 files to a disk as will fit. Be sure to make this disk as "files" or
"data" not an audio CD. Once again the amount of music stored on one disk
can be huge. I made one CD for the drive to WDW last Dec that had
aproximately 16 hours of near CD quality music.
One thing that you may want to understand. Every mp3 file can be recorded
at a different "quality" or "bit rate". The larger the bit rate the more
memory the file will require but the more exact the sound replication will
be. Sometimes the bit rate is expressed as quality (CD quality, FM
quality, AM quality, etc). The higher the quality the larger the file.
Also some files can be recorded in mono instead of stereo which will
reduce file size. Thus the higher the quality or bit rate the less music
will fit one CD (or memory card). So a single CD could have a capacity of
13 hours of high "quality" mp3s, but if the same material is recorded at
AM quality you may get 36 hours or more on one disk. I once estimated the
capacity of a CD at a low quality mono file format and realized the CD
could play for nearly 4 days without repetition!
Now where to get the mp3s. There are many places you can get them over the
internet (both legally and illegally). Also there are many programs
available that allow you to make your own mp3 files from your own CDs
right in your computer. Also there are programs that allow you to record
mp3s from any audio coming out of your computer, kind of like a tape
recorder but without tape. Also there are many programs out there that
allow you to edit mp3s so you can record and edit your own music. All of
these files will work in your MP3 player.
Good luck and have fun.
Randy
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Randy Berbaum
Champaign, IL
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