[bookport] Re: Handy conversion tool
- From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:30:06 -0500
Then thee is always the old standby cdex. It even has a nice record
from analog input feature. I'm not going to go into the uses of this
feature, but suffice it to say you can easily record things from
analog sources and play them on the bookport with speech compression.
The price is right (free) and it is easy to navigate.
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:58:39 -0500, you wrote:
>If you're looking for a super-simple way to convert your CD collection into
>MP3 files to be played on Book Port, Windows Media Player 10 does a
>marvelous job and is a snap to navigate. Earlier versions of Windows Media
>Player don't have nearly the flexibility in this area that you'll find in
>the new version, which can be downloaded quickly and easily. if you don't
>have it. You'll have to click on "Options" and set a few parameters, but
>after you've done that you'll have a super-neat CD-ripping program at your
>disposal which is stable and easy to use--and it's free.
>
>One program which will do the same thing but is more streamlined and,
>therefore, much easier to use for the novice, is Smartsoft's Smart CD
>Ripper. Just open the program, pop in a CD, and all the options are already
>set for you. What's more, the choices which have been made are pretty good
>ones, and you may be happy just to install and run the program with no
>modifications. It's available online at Smartsoft.com and costs $29.95.
>I'd recommend it highly if you aren't comfortable with Windows Media
>Player's vast array of user-definable options which can be daunting if
>you're just getting started. You can download a trial version for free, but
>it will only convert five songs from a given CD, just enough to give you an
>idea of how it works.
>
>David Bennett
>
>
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