[Ham-Computers] Assistance With Music Downloads

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:36:35 -0500

I have recorded many dozens of vinyl albums to CD and I do not use a computer
and related software. My results are vastly superior to this method, but that is
another story. 	

He is downloading music from the Internet into his computer, not trying to copy
tapes or vinyl recordings. 			

My question was, how to get it onto a CD, or other mass storage device, and off
his hard drive? Or better yet, direct download to the storage device and not
left on the hard drive. I know how, but it is not for me, it is for an old man
who needs a quick and dirty type simple means. This is what I need suggestions
for. 	

Thanks!	

Duane W8DBF	

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From: JV <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Assistance With Music Downloads
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:39 AM

Good Morning  Duane
    I have copied a lot of old LPs onto a CD using Sound Forge. I could get
two albums on one CD. So tell your friend to have a big bunch of CDs, hi hi.
BTW, this was very time consuming. I think it took around two hours per
recording. Also, the process is not simple. 
JV
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-------Original Message-------

From: [email protected]
Date: 03/22/04 21:40:41
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Assistance With Music Downloads

Hi All,

I do not download music from the Internet. I am a serious audio devotee for
forty years and simply have no need to do that. Hence I know very little
about
doing so. But I have an elderly Ham friend who is very limited in his
computer
skills who just loves to get on-line and download tunes to play.

It is not going to be too much longer before he runs out of hard drive space
at
the rate that he is going. i have explained this to him in as simple of
terms as
I can, he gets the idea but keeps on happily downloading. I know that phone
call
for assistance is pending!

So here is my question:

What can I do to enable him to download direct to a CD burner so that he can
download until said CD is full, finalize it and then pop in a new CD and
happily
fill it up? Now remember, his skills are 'minimal'! The more simple, the
better.

Maybe an external device for mass data storage, the MP3 or whatever?

I would appreciate your learned suggestions as to the best way to go to
permit
him his enjoyment, prevent him from running out of HD space and keeping it
simple. For both of us!

Thank you!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF
[email protected]

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