Articles about "media player"What mp3 player should I buy?
Searched for a few things on your site and I hit pay dirt! Thank you. I'm am nonetheless uncertain on how to pick a MP3 player. I don't know what factors to take into consideration in order to guide my...
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I want to add some high-end animation and transitions to my Web site and figure that I need something written in Flash. I also want to add a fun game to the site. That, my friends tell me, should be...
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All of a sudden I'm hearing lots of people talking about "reputation management" and "online reputation management". What the heck are they talking about and how does it different from what we've all been doing, trying to put our best...
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Not to sound like a complete chowderhead, but when I have a USB disk drive hooked up to my Mac and then unplug it, I always get a scary warning. How do I avoid that and eject the drive properly...
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omg~~~!!!!! help dave......i have gotten songs on to my sony psp and i dont have wireless internet... so when i go to play the song it says "WMA playback is not enabled. Go to [settings] > [system settings], and select...
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Hi there, i really need your help, i have a Sony player mp3/wma/rec 256M, but i don't have the driver, could you help me please?...
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Just read about Amazon's new online music store that features millions of songs for sale without any digital rights management junk. Yeah! My question, before I jump in, can I access the store on my Mac, and if so, can...
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Like you, I am highly impressed with the Creative Labs Zen Vision:W [see my review] but it's darn frustrating that Creative only makes its software available for Windows computers, not Mac. I know about the XNJB application that lets me...
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In which we get the hottest video game system from Christmas 2006 and turn it into a Linux box? You bet! If you’re still thinking about video game systems as being just a wee bit more technologically advanced than an...
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Technology has changed dramatically in the last decade, but perhaps nowhere more than with cellular phone technology. From being a device for dialing numbers cellphones have evolved to where they're a portable entertainment and media device, with music players, Web...
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Just before Christmas, Polk Audio sent me one of their new I-Sonic all-in-one entertainment system to review, and it has been in my office ever since, giving me a chance to experience XM Radio and HD Radio, among other things....
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After having spent the last year learning everything about the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP), is there really a better device for watching movies away from your television? To find out, we bought a Creative Labs Zen Vision:W video player and...
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[This is the second part of a series of high tech buyer's guides we're releasing here at Ask Dave Taylor to help address many of the questions that we receive about confusing new technologies and gadgets. The first article addressed...
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This is the first part of a series of high tech buyer's guides we're releasing here at Ask Dave Taylor to help address many of the questions that we receive about confusing new technologies and gadgets. This first article addresses...
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Hi Dave. I'm the HR VP in a startup and I have a frustrating dilemma. Before my last retreat with our branch managers the executive committee agreed that I could keep everything that happened in the meeting confidential, and just...
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Can you help me settle a bet? A friend of mine has bet me that there are more than a hundred recorded versions of the song Fly Me to The Moon, but I think they're in the twilight zone. I...
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I've been reading through your site. I see a lot of problems with the Sony PSP music downloads. Why did Sony make this so difficult for the buyers of their product. Why not just get a class action lawsuit against...
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I'm kinda stuck, Dave. I really want to learn how to really focus my blog efforts so I can gain more business advantage, but I haven't been inspired yet. Worse, I am stuck out in the boonies and don't have...
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i'm having lots of fun customizing my myspace profile, but what i don't understand is how some people have a little mini-player with a song on their profiles... how do i add a favorite song to my own profile? thanks,...
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Now that I have downloaded PSP firmware version 2.8, and successfully updated my PSP (now showing the correct version when prompted), and having spent some considerable time finding a wireless hotspot, and getting access to it I have enabled the...
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Okay, so I knew it was just a matter of time before someone came out with downloadable movies, but I never thought Amazon would be first out of the starting gate! However, I just read about the new Amazon Unbox...
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I'm thinking about buying an Apple iPod and was actually contemplating the Dell DJ until I read that Dell's discontinued their own brand of MP3 player. Now there's another device on the horizon, the Microsoft Zune. Darn. What can you...
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Hi i brought a new Samsung sgh-d500 mobile phone and i can't put music on my mp3 player. I need to know how to put music on my phone from the computer but i don't know how. Can u please...
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Hi Dave, I have pokemon gold on gameboy color. I've had it for about 2 years now and recently it's been playing up. When i save the game it runs through the usual procedure of saving and says "save successful"...
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I don't get it. The audio on my Windows PC seems to be just fine, I can hear system beeps, etc., but when I use Windows Media Player, I can't hear any of the music that's being played, regardless of...
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Please, please, please help me! I saw a question you answered earlier about how to: Convert WMA from Windows Media Player into MP3 files? Now, I know you know how to convert WMA files to MP3 files, but do you...
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I've just bought a new Apple iPod Mini and am really excited about getting started loading my music onto it, but I can't figure out how to do so! Windows Media Player can synchronize music with the iPod, but the...
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Now that I have a Sony Clié to play with, I'm wondering if it's possible to turn it into a music player so I don't also need to purchased an MP3 player? It's running PalmOS if that makes a difference....
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I just have one question to ask you and i dont know if you know but you are the only site that talked about this subject that was close enough and had a part where i could write a question....
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Hey Dave! I just got a Toshiba Gigabeat F40 and I sort of figured out how to download music onto it and all but random pictures that were on my computer downloaded on to my mp3 too - I don't...
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How do you download songs onto a BeatSounds EMP-ZII PLUS MP3 player? I just got it and i'm desperate to know since no one else will tell me. I have a windows xp comp. So please tell me how to...
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I have a Rio Carbon MP3 player which I really like, but I'd like to reformat the memory in the device so I can wipe all my old music and start afresh. How do I do that?...
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I once saw someone show a short movie clip they'd downloaded onto their Nokia mobile and ever since have been trying to figure out how to do that on my own phone. Nokia's not much help, though, but since I...
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I read your earlier note about changing the Nokia ringtones, borrowed from Yuan's Nokia Smartphone Hacks, and thought it was pretty informative. Thanks. Now, my question: can I customize the wallpaper on my Nokia cellphone?...
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I just got a new Nokia smartphone and have been really getting into customizing it in various ways, but I'm a bit stalled out on customizing ringtones. How do I do that?...
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I have an iMac G4 which runs on OS X 10.2.8. I believe this means that I can't download Standalone Music player (which is used on mySpace.com) because you need 10.3.9? Can I download some sort of software to upgrade...
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I really love my new Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) and while most of the games are kinda lame, there are enough good ones that it's a great companion on my daily commute. I bought a few UMD format movies, but...
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Dave, help! How do I download the music already on my computer to my creative zen mp3 player?...
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I really enjoyed your pre-System call with Ken McCarthy (register to listen to the call or learn more about the conference) but I had a problem when trying to listen to it on my Creative Zen Microphoto MP3 player. If...
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I have a Sanyo mm-5600 cellphone but i cant get it to play the music that i download on to it. Can you offer me any advice or assistance, please?...
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I have a bunch of WMA format audio files on my Mac and really want to put them on my RCA Lyra MP3 player but it only supports MP3 format. Somehow, I need to convert the audio from WMA to...
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I love my new Archos AV-700 portable media system. It can record video directly, has tons of disk space, is a music player, photo album and can show movies in a variety of formats. None of which are compatible with...
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Dave, when I’m using Windows Media Player I seem to have trouble finding the right combination of songs to fill a CD. Is there a simple way to automate this?...
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How do you make good amounts of money on the game "Runescape", I've been playing it so long but I make like barely any money on it....
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Hey there. I want to know if I can use my iPod as a portable disk drive for my different Windows computers? My girlfriend was showing me how she can do that on her Mac, but I was wondering if...
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Dave, I just got a little Lexar LDP-200 digital music player and have no clue how to add music to the device! It says it supports MP3, WMA and WMA DRM, but I don't know what they are. I just...
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I'm definitely going crazy here. I have a ton of CDs that I've ripped with Windows Media Player 10, but they're all apparently in WMA format, not the MP3 format that my new Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) needs for me...
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I have MusicMatch Jukebox on my computer and it starts automatically. (Windows XP) I do not like it. I much prefer Microsoft's Windows Media Player. I've tried to switch Windows Media Player to the default, and it will work when...
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Ok I am about ready to throw my Sony PSP out the window. i have done everything your directions have said and i cannot get music to play on it. i know it stores it to my memory card because...
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I'm trying to use Apple's slick iTunes program to copy my music CDs into MP3 format so I can download them to both my MP3-capable cellphone and my Sony PSP, but it seems like on the Mac it wants to...
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Dave, I've read your articles about how to transfer MP3 music files to a Sony PSP and other MP3 device, but what baffles me is that when I insert music CDs into my PC, it produces "WMA" files, not "MP3"...
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This may seem like a basic question, Dave, but I've been reading lots of weblogs and I'm pretty motivated to get started with one of my own. But I don't want a diary and don't think anyone else cares about...
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You seem to be on top of all this stuff, Dave, so tell me: should I upgrade the firmware on my Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) to the latest 2.60 release from Sony, or should I stick with 1.50? I'm not...
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I found a program on my computer called Windows Audio Converter. If I change all my wma's into mp3's will I be able to use them on my iPod?...
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I have a huge library of DVDs that I'd like to be able to watch on my Sony PSP. Since I already own them, it seems really stupid for me to have to buy the "UMD" version of them. Is...
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I just bought a new Sony PSP and am having a heck of a time figuring out how to get it to work with my Windows XP PC. I know I can copy music and pictures onto the PSP, but...
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I have a Sony PSP which I love, but while I've read your article about how to download music, I don't know where to get it from. Can you suggest a site or two where I can get PSP-compatible music...
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I have a powerbook g4 titanium , 60 GB HD, 512 MB ram, 1Ghz processor. I use the program DVD Backup to put dvd's on my desktop as TS folders. It has served me well on business trips, bored meetings,...
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Dave, you have tons of different articles on this site, really a pretty staggering amount of information. Out of all the hundreds of articles, what are the most popular? How many articles do you have right now anyway? And why...
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How do I change my regular music to mp3 so that I can download it into my psp? I also can't get pictures into the psp? I have the regular usb cable...
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Dave, Help! How do I download music from my HP Windows computer to a Sony PSP computer? The system says it is downloaded but the PSP says that there are no tracks available?...
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Dave, sometimes when I'm using Windows Media Player on my WinXP system, I get this mysterious "Unknown error" (C00D11CD)". What does it mean and how do I avoid it happening?...
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Dave, I'm using the latest release of Microsoft Window Media Player and am having a problem I thought you could help me with: the CDs that I burn in Media Player don't work on my car's CD player. How do...
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Dave, I'm going a bit bonkers. Every time I try to play a CD or watch a DVD on my WinXP system in Windows Media Player, the sound fades out and I'm left without any audio track. I've tried...
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I have a Snow iMac G3 800MHz, with both OS9.2.2 and OS10.1.5 on it, and for jollies, I put 10.3 on my external firewire hard drive, and just boot off the external drive. I wanted to see how well...
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I seem to recall that I've read about some applications for both Mac and Windows that let you capture a streaming audio source to a file so you can listen to it later, slice it up, mail an excerpt to...
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