When I put a music or audio CD into my Microsoft Windows PC, it launches Zune Player. Very weird. How do I change it to either launch iTunes, which I use to manage the music on my iPod, or Windows Media Player, which I use for music on the computer itself? I'm running Windows 7, btw.

Google has jumped into the cloud music fray with an interesting, though rather crude, offering of its own called Google Music, and I decided that it'd be darn helpful to have all of my almost 9000 songs available to me anywhere I was online, through just about any Web device.

Here's how I got started with Google Music...

Hi Dave. I want to buy a new ipod or mp3 player. which one you suggest? And which company you suggest?

I ripped a bunch of audio CDs in Windows Media Player and now want to convert them from ".wma" format to ".mp3" format so they're more compatible with my various audio players and devices. Is there an easy way to convert wma to mp3 in Windows?

I don't know what my son did when he was installing his latest game, but when I put music CDs into my Dell PC (running Microsoft Windows 7 if it matters) the Zune Player app is launched rather than my preferred application Windows Media Player. It's frustrating and when I went to change the default programs [ed note: see Change Default Programs in Windows 7] I couldn't see anything for music CDs. How do I fix this?

Now that I have an Apple iPod Touch and have figured out how to get it working on my Microsoft Windows Vista PC, my question is how do I import music CDs into iTunes?

I just got an Apple iPod Touch, which is super cool, but I have no idea how to get it to work with my Dell PC. I'm running Windows Vista and use Windows Media Player 10 (WMP10) for the music on my computer, but WMP doesn't seem to see my iPod. How do I proceed and get it to work??

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 tell me about the Zune, Dave? I mean, should I wait until Christmas and buy one, or just stick with a tried-and-true iPod?

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 how I adjust the volume in the player up or down. What's going on?

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 know how to convert MP3 files to WMA files? Please help me, you would be my hero! You are my last hope!

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 iPod itself doesn't then seem to know the music is there. HELP!

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?

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 I open specific music or audio files (and I do tell it to open "all files of this type with this program"), but it goes back to opening MusicMatch when a new file comes along.