there is some confusion Ray - alomost all cd players will only play cd's burned with .wav files - so mp3 as a format is out of the question. some new cd players play mp3 i believe which is very usefull as the cd would then store 10 times as much music! mp3 is a compression format so quality is lost when converting from .wav (full cd quality). So answer is rip in .wav + burn in .wav - if u want to hear anything that is.

How do I burn Music off the internet,
For FREE?!

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Rob, let me relate a short story to you, about software usage. I do not know the program you are referring to, but this opinionated belief might be useful to you in your efforts. I worked in a bank, and at that time, WordPerfect was the word processor of choice, before windows appeared. I sorted the mail as a clerk while attending school. I became almost indispensable because of my user knowledge on the computers in this one horse bank. I was delighted to work for them, I could set my hours, and had access to the computers to complete my homework.

This bank had, a very important board of directors meeting approaching, and everyone was participating in the preparation of the many reports. Two days before the meeting, the dongle (copy protection scheme WordPerfect used to prevent piracy) failed on the Operations Officer computer.

He spent hours on the telephone, trying to explain the situation to the company of his pending peril if he could not get the document produced in time for the board of directors meeting. Well they finally were convinced and provided a backdoor password, which allowed him to produce the documents. I was able to work alot of overtime, which made my life monetary easy for several months afterwards.

The day after the Board meeting the bank purchased, 30 copies of Microsoft Word, and deleted all references to WordPerfect from all the computer in that bank. During the next few weeks, lots of employee’s took the software home, and replaced WordPerfect on their home computers. I did several installs at the bank officer’s homes, which also increased my income. Microsoft word was not copy-protected software, like WordPerfect. As I continued my schooling everyone was changing to word, it was available, every one had a copy it seemed.

Within several years, very few offices used WordPerfect, Microsoft pirate copies were everywhere. It took many hours to become proficient in using a word processors, during at that time. Exiting the main program was the only way to access help files. Word was not as good of a program as its competitor, WordPerfect, but word could be installed numerous times or on all machines. Yes, and the program had revisions, as people upgrades some purchased the program, other just installed the new version bringing the disk home.

My first job after graduation was in an insurance company and I watched as the company purchased two copies of the word and 100 machines in that office became the recipient of these two programs. The learning curve of software was an effort, but many people became a word user. I saw this change in software occur over night it seems looking back at computer history. The users of this product distributed pirate versions, and as software use in office legitimized, purchase of upgrades made the investment in word required.

This advantage of not being copy protected, in a market against copy protected software their was no question who was the winning company.

Intel did not make motherboards, until Compaq Computer made their mother board propriety. This change killed that portion of Compaq income and created a bonanza for Intel’s income.
If you give it away, easily the users learn to use it, and will purchases upgrades, because they do not want to learn a new system. In your project to write an essay on Digital Piracy of computer programs, I make the following suggestion. Take a look to easy an illegal copy, verses the difficulty for a user to learn another program instead purchasing an upgrade continuing with the application the users feels comfortable using.

It is a narrow fence for a company to walk, allowing enough piracy and at the same time create a need to buy an upgrade. Napster is almost the same for the RIAA, but with a different twist. Over all music CD sales increased, not the pop promoted music, but the sales of many different music genres CD suddenly began to move off the shelves of retailers. The word of mouth, music sampling through Napster was the biggest seller of computers, broadband Internet service, CD burners, and CD sales. One day Napster will become a required business study, as the largest advertising medium that occurred in business, yet one of the biggest benefactor shot themselves in the foot. Time will tell if they had that foot in their mouth, when the gun fired in the halls of consumer spending.

Enough, but I hope my poor English composition, does not distract from the ideas I have tried to present, seep through.

JR

: I was just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any information on the piracy of music production software, i.e. Cubase, Logic et al.
: I'm doing a module on Mass Media Technology for my degree and have to write an essay on Digital Piracy. The sort of info I need is what the company's are doing to prevent piracy, what are the impacts on the industry, how many people use pirated software etc. etc.
: Any help would be appreciated.

: I was just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any information on the piracy of music production software, i.e. Cubase, Logic et al.
: I'm doing a module on Mass Media Technology for my degree and have to write an essay on Digital Piracy. The sort of info I need is what the company's are doing to prevent piracy, what are the impacts on the industry, how many people use pirated software etc. etc.
: Any help would be appreciated.

Apart from asking the companies concerned, you should make sure to track down some independent sources. I think there was/is a company called Copyright Control Services that might be of help. Do a Google search for 'em.

But i fear you're going to have trouble getting reliable statistics. No one knows how many people use warez. Some people don't even know they're using it. true.

Best of luck!

: I was just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any information on the piracy of music production software, i.e. Cubase, Logic et al.
: I'm doing a module on Mass Media Technology for my degree and have to write an essay on Digital Piracy. The sort of info I need is what the company's are doing to prevent piracy, what are the impacts on the industry, how many people use pirated software etc. etc.
: Any help would be appreciated.

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Hahahah... you will want to check out the link i have before you make your final decision. Personally, I haven't used Logic too much, but a friend of mine uses it constantly, and found Emagic to have excellent technical support. I did some recordings with him on it, and I never got a chance to use it much on my own. The signal just seemed a bit too complex at the time.

However, at this point, I think it's probably a bit better on a mac than Cubase. I also think that the signal routing IS more advanced on Logic. Steinberg is making Nuendo better for signal routing, but Nuendo is a whole other ball game.

On the other hand, Cubase is nice because of its universal support for plug ins of the VST and DirectX type. I have used Cubasis extensively, and have noticed how it's similar to and different from Cubase. The only things I don't like about Cubase/Cubasis is the lack of a good sample-accurate zoom function on the multitrack audio grid. Sometimes my track editing gets really complex, but I still need to edit as tracks and not in the external editor. Also, Cube seems to have trouble with some plug-ins and how it tries to remember them. Cube also had trouble with some of my soundcard drivers (always switching to mono without my permission). And I wasn't always able to monitor properly. The .REX file support actually bugged me, because I often like to mess with BPM settings of wave files and I sometimes DON'T want them to automatically match. Cuba kept fighting me on this.

The more I think about it, the more problems I remember with Cube. Setting tracks up to be stereo instead of mono was tricky without a template. Some projects would lose track of their sound files. I DID have to reinstall Cube a few times, but it always restarted ok then.

I really like the grid functions on Cube, but I like them better on ProTools and DDClip Pro. DDClip Pro has a really fantastic way of using markers. I don't know if DDCLip is on mac yet. Too bad if it isn't. It's my favorite 32/96kHz system, and it can use DirectX plugins. It sounds great, and is VERY easy to use for overdubbing. The video detailed editing is a nice touch, as are the dithering options and built-in effects and EQ and custom colors and stuff.

OK, so I'm wandering off topic. I suggest for your mac, that you stick with Logic Audio, and get a copy of ProTools free in the mail on a CD-ROM. You might be interested in Deck, and Bias Peak, which now seem to support VST plug-ins. Those programs could be really cool. ProTools is really powerful and is around in most professional recording studios, so you'll probably want a copy around even if you seldomly use it. It's also nice if you like some TDM plug-ins.

So what the hell am I trying to say????

Get Logic because I remember a lot of glitches with Cube, even though I really like how it renders and loads up plug-ins so nicely. Logic seems really stable, and the company seems a bit more professional and less consumer-oriented, somehow. Get ProTools (free or otherwise) also, because it will help you stay current, and will be able to do things that your other programs can't, even if it's just loading up TDM plug-ins.

I do think that Logic could be tricky if you don't have enough RAM, but that's because it renders effects so nicely.

I would spend a lot of time making sure you get the extra junk cleared out of your system folder and removing unneeded control panels/extensions/etc.

Well, I'm not thinking too clearly today. Usually I give a more definative answer. Oh well.

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: Is there a site to Share and download cdg karaoke??
: Thanks George

This is a music software discussion forum. you can add a link to your message if you want.

You probably need to re-install the soundcard drivers (drivers are software instructions for the computer on how to work with hardware). There are usually lots and lots of drivers involved for sound cards once they're installed. There are mixers, driver emulators, input drivers, output drivers, and MIDI drivers are separate from audio drivers.

Check and make sure that you are installing the correct driver and the correct version. Sometimes on a CD-ROM there will be drivers for other cards than what you have.

Also, check to make sure that your system BIOS (if you have a PC) is set correctly. Many have a setting for using or ignoring MIDI or audio.

Also, if you are using a PC, you need to be sure that the soundcard is getting its own, unique IRQ #. An IRQ # is basically an ID # so that the system can respond to the device. IRQ = Interrupt Request. Soundcards are often assigned IRQ 5 or 10.

It can be tricky dealing with IRQ's because there are only so many, and most of them MUST be assigned to specific devices. Also, some devices share IRQ numbers.

There is a really helpful book that explains how to solve these problems. It's called IRQs, DMAs, and

: My computer is saying that i need a sound card.

I am having the same problem. When I first install, the program works, but I get that message the next time I fire up the computer. Using Windows XP. Are you? (It seems to work fine on my other PC's)

WOW – Nice machine and it did not drain your pocket book…

1.2 GHz Celeron on 0.13u processor
256 KB L2 Cache
100 MHz FSB
256 MB PC133 SDRAM (normally installed)
2 DIMM slots(512 MB PC133 SDRAM maximum;2x256MB)
60 GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
Intel 815E Integrated Graphics
1 AGP and 3 PCI slots (1 PCI slot already used for fax/modem)
4 USB ports (2 front and 2 rear)

Great specifications - a decent machine. Now to answer your question - you need some software -

If you look section above "Looking for music software? Over 4,000 downloads are available on this site. 44 categories of software are just a click away!" You will find a number of very good programs that will accomplish what you want.

Click through to Audio Recording and have a look at these two programs: LP Recorder 4.1 - and the co-program LP ripper 4.1. These very reasonable priced programs that do what you want to achieve.

The recorder does just that it records from your LPs. Just plug your amp/turntable into your sound card and let it record the entire side of your LP. Then use LP Ripper to separate and edit each song from the entire recorded side of the LP... Ripper has some decent editing functions and works with the Windows XP - Read some of the notes posted for these programs. Purchase the programs through this site it help support the hitsquad message board...

: Have Sony Vio RX540 how can I burn my old records to CD's. Just learning to work with the machine. So far view battles won. Thank for any help. (Useless to try Sony for help)

: Believe it or not, I can't make CEdit do the fundamental thing: record. I'm running a plug from deck to input, press record, and get nothing. Something simple? Thanx,
: DN

You also want to make sure your record input is "line in"
Gecko

A RAM file is a small text file that contains the address of the file that you want people to listen to. <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/9904_106/">This page</a> should help.

: What is a RAM format for music files?
: How is such a file created?
: Please send me the answers at your earliest.
: Many thanks. Narasimhan, India