How to Do Everything with Your Dell DJ

by Rick Broida (Conducted by)

Overview

Features: how to download and rip music, organize tracks, play music in your car, stage live - DJ parties, and optimise, enhance, and troubleshoot your Dell DJ. This work gives basic tips, tricks, and advice on digital music management. It shows how to back up old LPs, cassettes, and other formats as digital files and copy over to your Dell DJ.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072255508
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
Publication date:	06/10/2004
Series:	How to Do Everything Series
Pages:	287
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.85(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part I	Getting Started
Chapter 1	Welcome to the Dell Digital Jukebox	3
	A Brief Overview of the Dell DJ	5
	Inside (and Outside) the DJ	9
	Introduction to Musicmatch Jukebox	10
	Alternatives to Jukebox	12
	DJ Resources Online	13
	Where to Find It	13
Chapter 2	Getting Set Up	15
	Charge the DJ	16
	Prep Your PC	18
	All About USB	18
	Install the Software	21
	Existing Musicmatch Users	22
	Check for New Firmware	22
	Troubleshooting the DJ	24
	Troubleshooting Musicmatch Jukebox	24
	Finding DJ Help Online	27
Chapter 3	Quick Start: Get Music into Your DJ	29
	A Quick Tour of Musicmatch Jukebox	30
	Add Music to Musicmatch	33
	Play a Single Song	35
	Build and Play a Playlist	36
	What Is a Playlist?	36
	Loading Songs onto the DJ	39
	Loading Tracks from the Library	42
	Loading Tracks from Elsewhere on the Hard Disk	43
	Loading a Playlist	44
	Syncing Your Entire Library	44
	Upgrading Musicmatch	45
Part II	The Dell DJ Experience: Downloading, Organizing, and Enjoying Digital Music
Chapter 4	A Digital Music Primer	49
	What Makes It Digital?	50
	Sound Waves 101	51
	The Age-Old Debate: Digital or Analog?	53
	Making Sense of Audio Formats	56
	How Bit Rate Affects Sound Quality	56
	So Just What Is MP3?	57
	What's the Big Deal About Compression?	57
	And What's WMA?	58
	And Those Other File Formats	59
	Which Format to Use?	60
	Picking a Bit Rate	61
	Where Do Digital Music Files Come From?	61
	What About All the Legal Stuff?	62
	The Ultimate Portable Player	62
Chapter 5	Ripping Music from CD	65
	Working with Jukebox Software	66
	Using a Jukebox	67
	Using Other Jukeboxes	73
	Dealing with Glitches	78
Chapter 6	Copying Music from LP and Cassette	81
	Making the Connection	82
	Sound Card Inputs	84
	Analog Source Outputs	86
	Cabling It All Together	87
	Audio Recording Software	91
	Prep for Surgery with Audio Editors	91
	Making the Recording	92
	Setting the Recording Device	94
	Setting Sound Levels	96
	Recording Your Audio	97
	Recording Strategies	99
	Editing Your Music	100
	Cleaning Up Noisy Audio	104
	Giving Your Music the Gift of ID3	106
Chapter 7	Downloading Music from the Internet	111
	Download Music from Musicmatch	112
	Buying Your First Song	114
	Download Music from Other Online Services	117
	The Format Workaround	121
	File-Sharing Services	121
	A Brief History of the MP3 Controversy	122
	How to Not Break the Law	127
	And in the End	130
Chapter 8	Listening to Audiobooks and Radio Shows	131
	Download and Go with Replay Radio	132
	Understanding Internet Radio	132
	Get Started with Replay Radio	136
	Audiobooks from Audible.com	145
	Converting Audible Files into MP3s	147
	Where to Find It	148
Chapter 9	Managing a Digital Music Collection	149
	Planning for Music Storage	150
	Organizing Your Songs	152
	Controlling Playback with Filenames	153
	Selecting a Folder and Filename Strategy	153
	Editing Music File ID Tags	155
	Changing Several Tracks at Once	157
	Fixing the File Type Association	158
Part III	Do More with Your Dell DJ
Chapter 10	Listening to Music on the DJ	165
	Getting Around the DJ	167
	Buttons, Sliders, and Wheels, Oh My	167
	Playing Music	171
	Using Play Views and Selected Music	175
	Controlling Your Play Mode	176
	Adjusting the DJ's Settings	177
Chapter 11	Optimizing the Sound	181
	Back to Bit Rates	182
	Should You Re-rip?	183
	All Things Being Equalized	185
	The Ears Have It	187
	Learn to Love Volume Leveling	189
	How to Apply Volume Leveling	189
	Where to Find It	193
Chapter 12	Accessorize!	195
	Happiness Is Happenin' Headphones	196
	Dave's Favorite: Bose QuietComfort 2	197
	Rick's Favorite: Shure E3c	198
	Make Your DJ the Hub of Your Home Stereo	199
	Build a Home Stereo Around the DJ	201
	Use Your DJ in Your Car	202
	DJ Carrying Cases	206
	Where to Find It	209
Chapter 13	Managing Music with Playlists	211
	Playlists and Musicmatch	213
	What Is a Playlist, Really?	214
	Creating a New Playlist	214
	Playlists and Transferring Music	218
	Copying Playlists via the Portable Device Manager	218
	Drag and Drop Between Playlists	221
	Playlists on the Dell DJ	222
	Finding Your Playlists	223
	Playing Your Playlists	224
	Creating or Editing a Playlist	224
Chapter 14	Beyond Musicmatch: Using Other Music Software with the DJ	229
	Life Beyond Musicmatch	230
	Using Windows Media Player	231
	Copying Music to the Dell DJ	231
	Deleting Tracks from the DJ	235
	Using Dudebox	236
	A Quick Tour of Dudebox	238
	Copy Music to the Dell DJ	240
	Copy Music from the DJ to Your PC	242
	Play Music on Your DJ from Your PC	243
	Stream Music to Your PC	247
Chapter 15	Recording Audio with the DJ	253
	Press Here to Record	255
	Play Back Recordings	258
	Delete Recordings	259
	Transfer Recordings to Your PC	259
	Rename Your Recordings	263
	Use Your Recordings in Other Applications	264
	Where to Find It	268
Chapter 16	Use Your DJ as a Digital Briefcase	269
	The Data Side of Dell DJ Explorer	271
	Moving Files to Another Computer	274
	The Data Side of Dudebox	275
	Copy Files to the DJ	276
	Index	279