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Total old man question about music downloading...

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April 13, 2018, 05:31 PM
Lord Vaalic
Total old man question about music downloading...
OK, what is the easiest way for a non-tech old man to download all of my CDs so I can play them on an ipod or somesuch magical witch device?



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April 13, 2018, 05:53 PM
hberttmank
I don't know what you have as far as a computer, but here is how I do it. I have an iMac and using iTunes I just copy my CDs into it then it is a simple matter of making up playlists with the songs I want and then just syncing it up with my iPhone. I have bluetooth stereo system in my truck so I no longer have to carry around CDs.


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April 13, 2018, 08:49 PM
Pale Horse
quote:
Originally posted by hberttmank:
I don't know what you have as far as a computer, but here is how I do it. I have an iMac and using iTunes I just copy my CDs into it then it is a simple matter of making up playlists with the songs I want and then just syncing it up with my iPhone. I have bluetooth stereo system in my truck so I no longer have to carry around CDs.


I do the same with a windows PC.



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April 13, 2018, 09:14 PM
Aquabird
I have a cd burner in my computer.
I stick a disc in.
There are various programs you can use to copy to a file. Windows has one of those.

If you have an mp3 player, once you get all your music on the computer, you can hook your mp3 player to your computer and copy the songs to it.


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April 14, 2018, 01:28 AM
Rey HRH
Express Burn Disc Burning Software is free. Download it on the link from their home page.

Put your cd in your computer's dvd player, then use Express Burn to convert the files into MP3 files. Those are what you can save to ipods and such.


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April 14, 2018, 06:34 AM
Opus Dei
As mentioned, there's a lot of choices, depending upon your computer OS. Assuming you've got a PC, Windows Media Player is good for learning with. When configured to your tastes, WMP can retrieve album information and compose playlists. Additionally, you can choose to save music as WMA or MP3, and playlists in WPL or M3U format. Third-party software gives even more options for formats, but to learn on, stick with something like WMP or iTunes.

Later, if you really want to get serious, mp3tag is a freeware program that lets you do extensive metadata changes such as embedding lyrics files. MusicBrainz Picard is another freeware that will fill in metadata that WMP and iTunes don't cover.

Have fun and learn-and then try DVDs, next.