Motorola simplefi manual Adding Music to Your PC, Ripping CDs, Section, Simpleserve Console

SECTION 5 SIMPLESERVE CONSOLE

AND MEDIA MANAGER

Adding Music to Your PC

Several MP3 songs are included with Media Manager for your enjoy- ment. To add more songs to your playlists:

•Convert songs on your CDs to MP3 tracks, also known as “ripping CDs”

•Download songs from the Internet

Ripping CDs

CD-rippingis a process to copy music from a CD to your hard disk. CD-ripping stores your music in digital files called MP3 files.

simplefi software makes it easy to store your entire music collection in one convenient location on your computer. With simplefi, you can listen to your music collection on your stereo system without the hassle of managing numerous CDs.

Copying music from your CDs to your computer’s hard disk is easy. A variety of CD-ripping software programs are available for down- load from the Internet. MusicMatch Jukebox, Audiograbber, and Real Jukebox are examples of applications you can download from the Internet to rip CDs.

After downloading and installing CD-ripping software, simply insert a CD into your CD-ROM drive and select the tracks to rip. CD-ripping software converts these tracks into MP3 files onto your hard disk.

NOTE: We recommend ripping songs from CDs at a minimum bit rate of 128kbps, which is near CD-quality. Songs ripped at 96kbps or lower require less hard disk space, but are poorer quality. Many CD- ripping applications default to 128kbps.

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