Saturday, March 26, 2005

Digital Music Confusion

I've been getting into digital music lately.

I have many CDs that I hadn't listened to for some time, and I decided to convert a bunch for listening on my Dell Axim X50v. (It's a sweet piece of technology and it has a good included .mp3 (etc.) playback capability.

So, where to begin? I have Nero's wonderful suite of apps which came with my Sony DVD burner. It allows me to convert my CD's to .mp4s. (Nero Digital Music Format.)

I've done that to a bunch of CDs, and put a whole lot on a compact flash card I had. Sounds good.

In addition, I've bought a couple of songs from MusicMatch, just to experiment with buying music online.

But, I just bought my wife an iPod Shuffle. So, she's been experimenting with iTunes.

And, between the music players on my computer: Windows Media, Neros, Music Match, etc., I've created a monster. What I'm trying to figure out it how to buy a song once, and be able to load it on my Axim, and my wife's iPod.

That's one of my weekend projects.

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