Chapter 6: Using Multimedia

To play a music CD in Windows 2000:

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To have MusicMatch automatically list the album, artist, and track names of your CD, connect to the Internet before inserting your CD.

Double-click the musicmatch JUKEBOX icon on your desktop. MusicMatch opens.

3 Insert the music CD into the CD or DVD drive on your computer, then click the CD tab in the MusicMatch window. The names of the music tracks appear in the playlist area.

4 Click (play).

Creating MP3 music files

Using MusicMatch, you can copy the tracks from a music CD to your computer’s hard drive as MP3 files. MP3 (MPEG Layer 3) is a standard for digitally compressing high-fidelity music into compact files without noticeably sacrificing quality. MP3 files end in the file extension .MP3.

Important Some music CDs have copy protection software. You

cannot copy tracks from these CDs.

To create (rip) MP3 files:

1 To have MusicMatch automatically list the album, artist, and track names of your CD, then use that information for naming and storing your MP3 files, connect to the Internet before inserting your CD.

2 Insert a music CD into your CD or DVD drive.

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