Posted by CQ on 10/24/05 09:13

In article <1130141349.985702.272490@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
TunaSandwich said...

> So does anyone know anything about this or

It is far too broad of a question and gives the impression that you are
not willing to do the smallest amount of looking into things for yourself
before just looking for someone to take you by the hand and lead you to
water.

> I'd like to load all my CDs into the computer so I can shuffle them and
> organize the music so I can play what I want when I want just like with
> my 200 CD changer.

Get EAC, use Lame 3.97, encode at a minimum of V 3, put all your files in
a directory with a sensible genre/artist/album folder hierarchy, allow
Winamp to recursively scan that directory and add all those files to the
media library.

> Also, I'd like to get an mp3 device. Then I can just grab what I want
> to the device for easy playing.

Yes, nice, very good. Have at it.

> I've downloaded Winamp. Is that the right solution?

Right solution to what? Winamp is a player. Used properly it is still
one of the best, if not THE best, player available. Used improperly it
can be a bit of a resource hog and even (with the wrong version
installed) a small security risk.

It can also rip and encode. It can also organize your collection. A
cursory read of the Winamp site should have told you all that, though.

Many folks believe there are better solutions for some or all of these
tasks. These issues are discussed here all the time. Would you like
everyone to line up and council you personally on what they believe is
the best tool for you to use for each task?

> Am I going to be
> able to do this?

Doubtful. It can be done easily enough, to be sure, but you might have
to put forth some effort in learning about how the technology works in
order to make the best use of the technology available to you.

Here are some links to learn from:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

Some more suggestions:

Pick a nym and use it, don't make up something new and dumber every time
you post if you want people to take you seriously.

Don't top post.

Read, lurk, read some more before jumping in and asking questions. Most
of your questions at this point arise from a lack of knowledge about the
subject matter that is discussed here regularly. Inform thyself a bit.

When a poster answers your question, like dads did, don't just ignore his
advice because it seems too hard to follow through on. The help file he
gave you the link to will in fact answer many of your questions but it is
obvious you haven't taken the time to read it yet.

> is this the wrong group?

Probably is, yes.
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CQ

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