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Anyone familiar with Nero? When i turn my cd music into mp3 format can i only listen to them through Nero or any player? I just have the demo version which is only good for about 2 or 3 weeks.

Can anyone reccomend anything better or at lesser cost than Nero?

Thanks

If converted to mp3, use Winamp ( http://www.winamp.com ) to play mp3s.

As for software to convert them to mp3, am not sure what is best. A combo player/converter is MusicMatch.

nero is great - i love it... bought it and use it whenever possible... great for videos, too... not just music.

and you can listen to mp3s on most anything around nowdays...there are tons of programs you can use, like winamp (which was noted), musicmatch jukebox (also noted), windows media player, nero media player, itunes, etc etc.... tons of mp3 players (physical devices), etc...

as an alternative to purchasing nero -- i got my full version copy with my motherboard or dvd burner or some such. look for package deals and upgrade your computer too hehe

You might want to try using Windows Media Player 9 or 10. It have a built-in feature which allow you to rip/copy the songs from your CD to your computer.

You can edit the format you want it in, how you want it renamed, etc...

Give it try, it's very simple and easy to use, and no need to limit yourself to a 2 or 3 week period to rip/copy your songs.

ty very much for your inputs! i will be trying some of them very soon

For playing mp3's i use winamp. For converting back and forth between any format i use dbpower amp. You can get it at http://www.download.com.
It is very powerful and you can set the bit rate to what ever you desire and normalize the volume. It rips pretty quickly.

For ripping and renaming and using CDDB, I use QMP (Quintessential Media Player (let's hear it for marketing types)) It has a few quirks but if you have an album of "track 01.mp3", "track 02.mp3" it can look up the whole album and rename all of the songs and set the ID tags at the same time. (I'll also play with QMP but it's not as intuitive as the others)

For playing I use Winamp for a quick song or iTunes shuffle to let it go for a while.

For encoding or changing formats I use Adobe Audition. I got a pirated version of it on the black market in Eastern Europe. It freaking ROCKS!! lots of formats and you can mix songs too. I use it to clean up bad rips (you know that one mellow song that has the last second of the loudest song in the world at the beginning of it or the end... or live songs that always seem to have the inbetween banter at the end of the song:
{slip knot live: "This song is your new national f***ing anthem" -crowd roars... Erasure abbasque "take a chance on me" starts playing.} I also use it to make MP3 ringtones for my cell phone.

Adobe Audition is Cooledit Pro after it was bought out by Adobe - Cooledit rocked, so I can't see why Audition wouldn't!

One question though, do you know if you can normalize tracks with it?

For instance if you're making a mix CD from mp3s, can you normalize the volume levels across all tracks so that the songs don't vary in volume so much from song to song.

It'd be nice if there was a standard to how much gain they apply to produced tracks these days, but it seems that alot of them just crank it up loud just so that they can be the loudest album in someones CD changer.

erm. itunes?

siren wrote:erm. itunes?

qft

siren wrote:erm. itunes?

Hold on, let me go dawn my garlic necklace and load my gun with silver bullets...

KrAzYdAvE wrote:

siren wrote:erm. itunes?

Hold on, let me go dawn my garlic necklace and load my gun with silver bullets...

personally, i like itunes for all it can do... i just wish there was a way to get things into mp3 format that you download... you download in m4p... even if i could get that to m4a...i could use nero to convert to mp3 or mp4, whichever i wanted. heh... there was a program called hymn that would convert itunes files ages ago... (by getting rid of the drm. lol )... but it dont work anymore..

Well, at my work I have most user accounts on PCs set up as restricted users...
Somehow, Itunes still lets these people try to install it, but every time they do, once they reboot, it completely hoses their PC...
takes about 10 minutes to boot up, causes some hidden process to suck up 100% system resources, and even though its now happened to me about 6 times, I still have not found a way to fix it other than a complete reinstall of the OS...

So being that it's killed now 6 solid days of mine, I prefer to hate it... lol

KrAzYdAvE wrote:Well, at my work I have most user accounts on PCs set up as restricted users...
Somehow, Itunes still lets these people try to install it, but every time they do, once they reboot, it completely hoses their PC...
takes about 10 minutes to boot up, causes some hidden process to suck up 100% system resources, and even though its now happened to me about 6 times, I still have not found a way to fix it other than a complete reinstall of the OS...

So being that it's killed now 6 solid days of mine, I prefer to hate it... lol

i've never had that problem, in the past year that i have used itunes... maybe its os related? or os cfg related? im running xp pro sp2... what os were you running that had the problems?