Computer Learning

[lostcowboy]

Hi OR, quick up date, I believe the FM transmitter is for transmitting the mp3,s to your home or car radio. Note you said it was so weak it it is a novelty only. You may have to turn on the Transmitter function, it should normally be off as it would run down the battery. Double check it, a real good radio may be able to pickup the FM even thou the final transmitter is off that may be what happened.

About the RIO's I just picked up the 64M Rio Sport S30 player. for $57 at Walmart, You can use external memory up to 550 megs, I also bought a 128 meg SD memory card to go into it for $44, and I bought a Lexar JumpDrive for $14 or $17, that can use the SD card. I be in hog heaven!
I am in the process of converting my CD collection in to mp3's encoded at 56Kbits. Was able to put 44 Patsy Cline songs and nine AC/DC songs on the RIO internal memory! Haven't even started on the 128 megs yet. Got it set for random play, about the time patsy is putting me to sleep, AC/DC comes along to wake me up.

About ripping I am using the free realplayer it is fast, but I hate it for playback to many ads. for playback I like the new free version of WinAmp 5.03. Also on Ripping I also found that my CD burner was able to rip at twice the speed as my DVD player. Both are supposed to be the same speed. The DVD ripped at 10X the CD burner at 19X!

About free internet radio listening. There is windows media player 9, free, sounds good but wants to display the web page. More on it in a second.
realplayer, free but wants you to listen to live365.com, which has a lot of ads. You can go to live365.com with out realplayer, and set up to receive mp3 music for a mp3 player, I like WinAmp the best, that way you only get audio ads.
I just found Radio@Netscape Plus last night, it is free, has some ads not to bad, but you cannot minimize it, it is ether open or goes to a big tool bar on the bottom of the screen The good thing is that you can cover the regular screen with another window, and there are no audio ads on the channels, I think there are about 175 channels.

Now for the best, WinAmp! WinAmp can receive streaming mp3's, from ShoutCast stations, In the old WinAmp's you had to go to http://www.shoutcast.com/ to select you station, Now you can just open up the media library and select internet radio. By default it gets 500 stations! but you can change that, I checked once there are at least 1500 stations.