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PC World
October 2005
Anne Kandrta |
How to Beat the Music Download Blues Incompatible formats and players can make getting music online a headache. Here's some advice to help you pick up your favorite tunes online without hassles.   |
PC World
January 1, 2003
Michael Gowan |
Make the Most of Your MP3 Player Follow our tips for easy ripping and keeping your player in shape. Plus: We point you to the best music sites. |
PC World
March 2004
Josh Taylor |
Digital Audio Hi-Fi These devices let you play digital audio through your stereo system, and the only finger you have to lift is the one on your remote control. |
PC World
November 20, 2000
Linda L. Grubbs |
Top 5 MP3 Players Download one of these MP3 players and get your groove on. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2003
Bill Howard |
Build a Home Entertainment PC You don't have to spend a fortune to create a home entertainment PC. A few basic enhancements are all you need. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Heather Green |
Which Format Will Win? A pitched battle for control of the music-downloading business is raging among Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Sony. Their weapons: software used to buy and listen to music downloads on computers and portable devices. |
Home Toys
August 2005
Richard Elen |
Serve Yourself When it comes to serving music across your home network, you can buy a proprietary server/client system. Or, you can serve yourself--free... Audio File Formats -- an overview... |
PC World
December 2001 |
Home Entertainment Face-Off Can your PC replace the latest consumer electronics gadgets? To find out, we pit computers against TiVo, MP3 stereo components, and other video and audio gear... |
AskMen.com
April 4, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To Burn CDs Learn what all the hype is about and find out how to burn CDs for your listening pleasure... |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Streaming-Audio Capture Tools These six tools let you capture live audio streams to listen to whenever and wherever you want. |
PC Magazine
July 1, 2003
Bill Howard |
Home Entertainment Hubs How many gigs of music, photo, and video files are you storing on your PC's hard drive? That's why home entertainment hubs make so much sense. This new type of gadget serves as a bridge between your PC and your AV equipment, allowing you to experience your digital media in a rich, full way. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2004
Bill Howard |
Entertainment Central Reviews of 10 media hubs will point you to the right device for enjoying your multimedia anywhere in the house. |
PC World
February 16, 2001
Michael Gowan |
How It Works: Hardware MP3 Players Your digital audio is now free to roam away from your PC. Here's how MP3 hardware players work. |
PC Magazine
February 16, 2005
Bill Machrone |
Unlock Protected Music When you buy music from an online service, you may want to move it to a different format. Here's how. |
AskMen.com
Rob Lester |
Setting Up A Digital Audio Center There are three ways to optimize the vast music library that many people now boast, each with their own pros and cons. Take a look as I lay out these options and provide examples of the top products in each category. |
PC World
October 2001
Melissa J. Perenson |
Better Burning A CD-RW drive is only as good as its software. We take five feature-rich mastering packages for a spin... |
Home Toys
February 2006
Scott Garman |
Getting to Know Audio Servers Whether your preference is for an elegant, self-contained music management system, or a complex array of ways to customize music playback to your fine-grained needs, there are many media servers out there for your taste and budget. |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
Loyd Case |
PC to HDTV the Right Way The typical home PC is no longer just for homework and accounting. It's now the entertainment hub of the household. |
PC Magazine
October 29, 2003 |
Online Music Stores: Music to Your Ears? As Apple iTunes Music Store for the Mac showed, users wanted to download as much or as little as they liked and pay only for what they bought. Now that the winning formula has been hit upon, it's rapidly being improved. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
Cliff Edwards |
MP3 Plus Video: Great Idea, Needs Work Now at least six of the biggest names in portable audio are trying a different tack: What if you could not only fit 5,000 songs in your pocket but 80 hours of video, too? |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2005
Bill Machrone |
Hey, It's Your Music Some people love iTunes; others hate it. They may prefer to manage their music library with Musicmatch or Winamp. |
PC Magazine
October 14, 2003
Sahil Gambhir |
New NetMD The entry-level Sony NetMD Walkman Model MZ-N510CK comes with such goodies as a car kit, CD and MP3 transfer software, a desktop and headphone remote, and a jogging band. |
Macworld
April 2002
Jonathan Seff |
Free MP3 Application Matures With its new features, iTunes 2.0.3 has become a fully capable MP3 player, encoder, and jukebox. Its few missing features are overshadowed by an easy-to-use interface -- and the fact that it's free... |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Davis D. Janowski |
Tying It All Together If adding multimedia to your home network seems daunting, read on. |
PC World
November 2004
Patrick Norton |
Rip Your Records Yearn to hear your old albums again? Here's everything you need to digitize them and then play them anywhere you can play an MP3. |
PC World
April 2004
Stephen Manes |
Networked Entertainment: Just Say No Is the new home networking technology for audio and video worth the hassle? Conflicting file formats for music and crashing media streaming boxes make most people cringe. Never adopt technology that requires great initial effort for minimal future reward. |
PC World
May 2001
Edward N. Albro |
Roomy Memory Keeps Intel's Music Rolling The Pocket Concert Audio Player from Intel boasts 128MB of onboard memory--enough to hold about 2 hours of MP3 music compressed at a near-CD-quality 128 kbps. And with a list price of $300, it's not much more expensive than players with skimpier storage... |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
E-Tune Shopping With downloading now legit, online music stores have similar catalogs. It's the extras that set them apart. |
PC Magazine
June 12, 2006
Cheng & Kobin |
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV650 Toshiba's Qosmio G35-AV650 is a great laptop, but its HD-DVD player has some hiccups... Olive Musica CD Player... |
Home Toys
December 2002
Mohsin Imtiaz |
Multichannel Mayhem With its ability to create a dramatically more realistic and immersive audio experience, multichannel audio is now migrating to applications and systems beyond its original home in the home theater. |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004 |
The Broadband Lifestyle In February 2004, according to Nielsen//NetRatings, about 45 percent of U.S. households with Internet access had a broadband connection. Here are some ways to utilize your broadband to listen to audio online. |
PC World
June 2006
Greg Adler |
Low Bit Rates? No Hi-Fi A music file's output quality depends in part on the bit rate used to store the audio. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 2, 2003 |
Online Music Wings its Way to the Celestial Jukebox In a celestial jukebox, instead of downloading songs to a computer hard drive or burning them onto a CD, listeners log onto a site that streams the music directly to their computers for immediate listening. It's like having your own all-request FM channel. |
PC Magazine
May 1, 2006
Mike Kobrin |
Sonos ZonePlayer 80 This is a truly excellent wireless audio solution for people who already have a good home stereo system and audio playback devices in multiple rooms. And it's surprisingly easy to set up. |
PC World
June 20, 2001
Tom Mainelli |
HP Gets Funky, Shows Digital Entertainment Center Due before Christmas, the pricey wired device will bring digital music to your living room... |
PC World
May 2, 2001
Michael S. Lasky |
RioVolt Hits the High Notes Sonicblue's RioVolt player handles MP3 CDs and WMA files as well as standard audio discs... |
PC World
January 7, 2001
Cameron Crouch |
Digital Music Streams Beyond the PC CES's selection of stereo products and portable devices play Web-based tunes where you want to hear them (for a price)... |
PC World
January 10, 2001
Gordon Meyer |
Wireless Sound for Your MP3s An inexpensive add-on lets you play music files on your PC through your home stereo--without wires... |
PC World
November 2000
Scott Spanbauer |
That's (Digital) Entertainment! Digital movies, books, and music are coming direct to your home by way of your PC. Soon, always-on entertainment will be just a mouse-click away... |
PC World
November 2004
Liane Cassavoy |
Microsoft Takes On Portable Video Cool but pricey Portable Media Center devices now available. |
Home Toys
October 2002 |
What is Digital? An Exploration of Terms and Usage So many things come with the digital designation the true concept of what digital actually is has become diluted over time. |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Bring Your CDs Into The iPod Age Services that computerize music spare you hours of tedious work. Here is a comparison of two services that help you with ripping CD's to computers. |
| AskMen.com |
Streaming Digital Media If you've got a network connection and one of the latest game consoles, you may not need any new hardware for streaming digital media from your PC to your TV. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Joel Johnson |
DIY Surround Sound Hi-Fi: Tech Clinic What you need to know about making your own DVD-Audio discs for your car's stereo. |
PC World
September 2002
Michael Gowan |
Buyers' Guide to MP3 Players Today's players pack more songs than ever, and the devices are easier to manage, too. |
PC World
June 25, 2007
Spector & Stafford |
Best Products for Streaming Audio and Video With Ease Want to watch your movies in the bedroom or listen to your albums in the kitchen? These devices do the best job of streaming PC-based video and audio all over your home. |
PC World
November 2000
Michael S. Lasky |
100-Plus Hours of Digital Music on the Go The Nomad Jukebox has robust features and large storage capacity... |
PC World
April 2003
Anush Yegyazarian |
From PC to Rec Room We try out the first units in a new class of devices that wed your entertainment system and PC. But the union isn't always idyllic. |
Home Theater
June 2004
Chris Chiarella |
Converging in the Desert Highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show: Roku HD 1000 High-Definition Media Player... Samsung YP-910GS Digital Audio Player... Zen Portable Media Center... etc. |
PC Magazine
September 16, 2003
Bill Howard |
Traveling Music Here, we evaluate eight products that give you more choice in music via in-car hard drives and satellite broadcasting. You can use some of them at home or in your vacation cabin as well. |
