Tip: Download Free Music for your iPod or any other Portable Device

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Productivity

Tools required:

JetAudio Basic
http://www.cowonamerica.com/download/

dBpowerAmp Music Converter
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Music Sources:

You can use any website which lets you stream music.

Step 1: Recording music from JetAudio:

JetAudio Basic supports recording audio directly from the sound driver on your computer therefore anything which you can play on your computer can be recorded and saved on your PC.

1) Start JetAudio Basic and Select Recording:

2) Select the input where you want to record the audio, File format which you wish to save it to. There are a lot of other settings as well to improve the sound quality.

2) Convert Music into MP3/Other formats:

JetAudio Basic doesn’t support saving files in mp3 format (Although it did support WMA which most music player recognizes) therefore here you need some converter to do that. dbPowerAmp Music Converter is one such software which you can use to convert to many different formats. After installing dbPowerAmp, you’ll see a “Convert To” in the context menu whenever you click an audio file.

You may require additional codecs depending on the source or destination file formats. All different types of codecs are available from http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central.htm