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Turn your PC into ultimate digital jukebox
IF you enjoy music, finding the perfect jukebox is like uncovering a buried treasure. A great jukebox gives you the freedom to play your favorites tune with the push of a button, line up a rocking soundtrack to accompany the entire evening or just enjoy each track that it “decides” to play.
Unfortunately, replicating the jukebox experience at home has always been nearly impossible - until now. Today’s powerful PCs deliver the ultimate jukebox experience (and so much more) in a package that can fit on a desktop or even on your lap!
Imagine accessing your entire CD collection through your desktop or laptop PC with a few simple mouse clicks. Or being able to quickly and easily develop a night-long play list of your favourite tunes to entertain guests. Or recording your top 15 party tracks onto a CD for Friday night's happy hour, a workout at the gym or a weekend at the beach. Whatever your audio needs, you can satisfy them using the PC.
So stop digging through mountains of tapes or books of CDs to find your preferred tunes or build a hot, new mix. Harness the power of the PC to build the ultimate digital jukebox and create and enjoy your music in exciting new ways! Here’s what you will need:
• Powerful PC: A powerful PC, such as one based on the Pentium4 processor, can be your complete digital music library and provide the power to quickly "burn" CD mixes.
• CD-ROM Drive: A CD-ROM drive lets consumers play any of their music CDs at the computer, as well as games and other software programs.
•CD-RW: CD-RW drives or “burners” let you record your desired music onto CDs.
• Speakers: Speakers make the computer part of a home’s stereo environment. Surround systems deliver a richer sound experience for games, movies and music.
• CDs: One of the most popular ways of getting music onto the PC is transferring or “ripping” tracks directly from CDs you own to a PC's hard drive. Blank CD-R discs let users record their mixes and can cost less than Rs200 a disc.
Transforming into a jukebox: Now that the building blocks are in place, it’s time to get all your music onto the PC and start having fun. After mastering these basic steps, you'll be able to enjoy and entertain yourself and friends with great digital music wherever, whenever and however you want!
• Operation conversion: Place your music CD into the CD drive of your PC. Fire up your digital music program, such as Musicmatch Jukebox. Using the “record” function built in to Musicmatch Jukebox, you can select all or specific tracks from the music CD to be transferred to the PC. Click the “record” button on the screen menu, sit back and relax as your PC reads each track, converts it to a compressed digital format (such as MP3 or WMA) and then writes it to the hard drive. The power of a brain chip such as the Pentium 4 processor and a speedy CD ROM drive really accelerate the process. The more powerful the PC’s brain, the less time the conversion takes.
• Head to the library: Before you know it, you’ll gather an impressive collection of tunes on your hard drive. Using the file manager feature in the Windows operating system, you can easily create a folder for each artist/band and sort and store your music for easy retrieval.
• Mix and record: One of the most popular digital music uses for a PC is to burn your own CDs. Click the “burn” button on the Musicmatch Jukebox menu and “drag and drop” the music tracks you want into a temporary playlist. Once you’ve lined up the mix, place a blank CD disc in your CD RW “burner” drive and click the red “burn” button. In minutes, you’ll have a disc you can play on your PC, on the home stereo, in a personal portable CD player or in the car.
Keep in mind that an older PC may “chug” (slow down) a bit when performing this application, while a newer PC will limit your CD’s “baking” time and deliver your finished product faster.— CompuNut
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