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January 2013 LCCU Meeting. Judy Grindle will demonstrate: Finding music genres, artists, & composers, or talk or sports shows on internet radio Recording internet radio to mp3 files Making a music CD from mp3 files Copying a CD to your hard drive Answers to members’ questions:
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January 2013 LCCU Meeting • Judy Grindle will demonstrate: • Finding music genres, artists, & composers, or talk or sports shows on internet radio • Recording internet radio to mp3 files • Making a music CD from mp3 files • Copying a CD to your hard drive • Answers to members’ questions: • How do you control who sees what in Facebook?
January 2013 LCCU MeetingListen to Internet Radio • Tunein.com • By station type – local, music, talk, sports or location • By genre or artist, both stations and shows • Sign up for free account to store favorites & settings • Pandora.com • Type in or select artist, genre or composer, it builds a station with similar music, thumbs up/down guides it. • Sign up for account to create your own stations. • Shoutcast.com, Slacker.com, WindowsMedia.com
January 2013 LCCU MeetingRecord radio to mp3 • Audacity audio editor & recorder • Use with tunein.com or any online radio station. • Records what’s coming thru your speakers. • With LAME for Audacity, enables recording to mp3. • Winamp audio player • With Streamripper for Winamp add-on, records tracks from mp3 servers as individual files, captures actual file data. Tracks from Shoutcast radio are put in a separate folder for each station, file is labeled with song title & performer.
January 2013 LCCU MeetingBurn Recorded Files to CD • Winamp • Insert blank CD, click “Blank disc (D:) , click Add button at bottom and select File, Folder or Playlist. • Select desired items & click “Burn” button. • Burned CD played OK in personal CD player. • Windows Media Player • Errors, failed to recognize blank disk, could not burn on XP (you may have better results), objected to codec used on Vista.
January 2013 LCCU MeetingRip CDs to Hard Drive • Windows Media Player • Will encode as mp3, wma (4 types) or wav • Select scale - smallest size to highest quality • Winamp • will encode as .m4a aac(used by iTunes), flac, ogg vorbis, Shoutcast mpeg-2, .wav or .wma • to encode as mp3, need Pro version, or use converter, e.g. Free M4a to Mp3 Converter • Others: Audiograbber, Free Rip
January 2013 LCCU MeetingListen & Record Radio • Nexus Radio • Find & listen to stations, and record what you hear. • Rarma Radio • Mostly international stations, may not connect
January 2013 LCCU MeetingCopy Audio Files to mp3 Player • Simply copy files from PC to player’s drive or • Synch folders or playlists from PC to player • Capable software: • Windows Media Player • Winamp • iTunes • Media Monkey • MusicBee
November 2012 LCCU MeetingFacebook Privacy Settings • Click gear in upper right of your Facebook page, select Privacy Settings, Timeline and Tagging, Edit Settings. • Switch "Who can post on your timeline?" to No one. • "Who can see what others post on your timeline?" - Friends or Custom • "Review posts people tag you in before they appear on your timeline" – Enable • "Who can see posts you've been tagged in on your timeline?" - Friends or Custom • "Review tags friends add to your own posts on Facebook" – Enable • "Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?" - No one