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MP3 & iPods—Digital World
by Anonymous
MP3 and iPods have changed our music experience and due to various extraordinary and useful features MP3 & iPods are getting popular amongst people. Let’s see some more details about MP3 & iPods. MP3 is just a method of compressing audio files so they are small enough to send over the Internet. A four-minute song on a CD consumes about 40MB of space, but an MP3 of the same song could be 4MB or even smaller.
Having all your music in MP3 format makes it easy to organize. You can create "playlists" of your favorite music to suit any mood or occasion. You can also download this music from your computer to a portable player. If the music you want isn't already in your CD collection, you can find it online. On a CD, each minute of music takes up about 10 megabytes of space. Very few people would want to download a 40-megabyte file just to hear four minutes of music.
Similarly, iPod is a portable digital music player that holds up to ten thousand songs in a stunning enclosure that is lighter and thinner than two CD cases. iPod features a touch-sensitive navigation wheel and buttons, and an intuitive interface designed for one-handed operation. Songs are stored in one of several digital audio formats, delivering the highest sound quality.
With MP3 compression, the same four-minute song would take up about four megabytes, and would sound almost as good as the original, 40-meg file. Four megabytes is still significant, but is a practical size for sending over the Net, especially for those with fast connections. Its name is an abbreviation for the much more unwieldy MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) 1 Layer 3. If you just love long, technical explanations, visit the MPEG Home Page. All you really need to know, though, is that MP3 files are about one-tenth the size of uncompressed audio files.
MP3-Info CMM
MP3-Info CMM is a Contextual Menu Module designed for Mac OS X (version 10.2 or newer). That is essentially an extension to the Finder. It displays information about MP3, AAC (iTunes), AIFF, and even WAV files, such as their duration, the bitrate, and also the MP3-Tags, such as the artist, the title of the song, and some more, all directly inside the Finder, without the need to open any application to get this information! That can save you a lot of time when you often have to manage MP3 files.
The fourth-generation iPod offers voluminous capacity, letting you easily slip up to 10,000(1) song in your pocket. You can enjoy them wherever you go. iPod allows you to hear music In the car, on the treadmill, At the office and around the house. The iPod is the perfect digital companion in your car, on a plane or backpacking in the woods. Turn your iPod into a portable stereo system by connecting it to a set of external speakers. And now you can choose from even more cool accessories that make it the most pleasurable part of your daily routine. Most iPod accessories work with iPod mini.
iPod, iTunes A Music Store at Your Fingertips
The perfect companion to iPod, iTunes lets you easily build and manage your digital music collection. Since the iTunes Music Store is built right in, you can browse through over 1 million songs and more than 8,000 audiobooks until you find just what you’re looking for. Jazz, Reggae, Pop, Electronica, Hip Hop — the iTunes Music Store has it all. And it’s open 24/7. All year long. In the US and most European countries. And on both the Mac and Windows PCs.
Information technology is essential to the iTunes-iPod combination: The integration of iPod and iTunes involved considerable software engineering, as well as pioneering use of high-speed data transfer protocols FireWire (IEEE 1394) and USB 2.0.The iTunes Music Store uses FairPlay, Apple's new digital rights management system that's designed to be fair to the artist, the record companies and customers.
iPod's stunning design includes the Touch Wheel, a patent-pending solid-state interface that makes scrolling through an entire music collection quick and easy. In October 2003, Apple introduced iTunes for Windows, providing an identical user experience to music lovers on the Mac and PC platforms.
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