Windows XP Digital Music For Dummies eBook

• Setting up your computer to handle music
• Using Windows Media Player that?s part of the XP package
• Making your computer the centerpiece of your music collection
• Shopping for and downloading music from Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody, and more internet sites
• Selecting the hardware, software, and audio tools you need

Written by Ryan Williams, an accomplished musician with an MS in Music Technology who develops digital multimedia tools, this guide helps you explore:

• Transferring your CDs or even vinyl records (if you have them, you know what they are) to the realm of your computer
• Choosing and using portable audio players
• Upgrading your PC and turning it into a jukebox with your all-time favorite hits
• Organizing and burning your music to disc for use in other types of devices, like traditional CD or DVD players
• Souping up your computer and making it a virtual studio
• Laying down basic tracks and mixing them
• Taking the finished product to disk, the Internet, and elsewhere

Hear what you?ve been missing. With Windows XP Digital Music For Dummies, you and your Windows XP can make beautiful (or raucous, harmonious, hip-hop, rousing, jazzy, inspiring?whatever your taste) digital music together!

Download Description
* Explains in plain English how to evaluate online music services, download music, select a portable player, turn a PC into an audio jukebox, burn custom CDs, and create and edit music files from commercial CDs * Apple iTunes reported 50 million music downloads as of March 2004, and the new Napster had 5 million downloads after just 4 months of operation * Covers the leading online pay music sites (iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody) as well as free alternatives (with advice on what's legal and what's not) and profiles Apple's iPod and other top portable players