Archive for the 'Music' Category

HOW TO: Build Your Own Media Center PC, Part 2

Last week, I showed you how to buy all the pieces to build your own media center PC for around $1,500. This week, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get to work–I’ll show you how to assemble the PC, install the operating system, and finally, use it.
The first step is be to prepare […]

HOW TO: Hide music in your pictures

This page lets you hide small samples of MP3s in GIF files. The GIF format allows for an "application extension block" - an arbitrary section for applications that isn’t checked by the GIF parser. Meanwhile, Winamp and other MP3 players ignore all data in the file that isn’t marked as an MP3 block. The result: […]

HOW TO: Convert Audio Cassette Tapes to MP3 files or CD

Audio cassette tapes, once the primary audio storage medium, are now disappearing quickly from the music store shelves to be replaced with Audio CDs. If you still own a pile of audio cassettes, now is the perfect time to convert them to MP3 files or Windows Media Audio before they’re gone forever.
Digitizing analog tapes essentially […]