Downloading Music!
Downloading Music!
MP3 technology was the catalyst to one of the biggest revolutions in the
media business in nearly 30 years.
When cassette tapes became popular in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s,
the music industry did the now-familiar Chicken Little dance about its
way of life being destroyed. The industry quickly co-opted that threat,
turning albums on cassettes into a very lucrative business. In the
mid-80’s, CDs promised superior quality at lower prices, but we wound up
only getting the better quality. Consumers never got the promised price
breakalbum prices continued to climb. Those chickens would come home to
roost soon enough.
It’s taken the music industry the better part of ten years to finally
devise some legal alternatives to the P2P file-sharing networks, and now
there are well over a dozen online music services legally offering a
wide range of genres to satisfy most musical palettes. Aside from one
service’s downloads being three cents cheaper than the next, what sets
them apart? Which one gives you most flexibility about how you enjoy your music? And which one really gives you the most of what you want for
your money?
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What are MP3 files and how do they work? Mike YeagerWhat are MP3 files and how do they work?
MP3 music downoad.
If you have read How CDs Work, you understand how musical sounds can be turned into numbers and recorded on a CD. A CD stores music using 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sample and two channels (for stereo sound). This means that a CD stores about 10 million bytes (megabytes) of data per minute of music on the CD. A three-minute song therefore requires 30 megabytes of data.
If you have ever tried to download files on the Internet, you know that 30 megabytes is huge. If you are using a modem to connect to the Internet, 30 megabytes of data would take several hours to download.
MPEG (The Moving Picture Experts Group) has developed compression systems used for video data. For example, DVD movies, HDTV broadcasts and DSS satellite systems use MPEG compression to fit video and movie data into smaller spaces. The MPEG compression system includes a subsystem to compress sound, called MPEG Audio Layer-3. We know it by its abbreviation, MP3.
MP3 can compress a song by a factor of 10 or 12 and still retain something close to CD quality. So a 30-megabyte sound file from a CD reduces to 3 megabytes or so in MP3. When you download the MP3 file and play it, it sounds almost as good as the original file. If you wanted to, you could download an MP3 file, expand it back to its original size and then record it on a writable CD so you can play it in a CD player. All that you are doing is converting back and forth between different formats to make downloading easier.
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Guitar Players…Learn About The Point Of Discipline.Craig BassettHave you ever started learning a lick or exercise and stopped practicing it before you had mastered it? Now I don’t know you, but my guess the answer to the question is
yes! Why is that? Why did you stop, when it was something that you REALLY wanted to learn?
There are quite a few reasons for it, but the one I would like to mention now is what I call the “point of discipline”.This is the point when the initial enthusiasm of learning that new lick/exercise wears off. It is no longer so new and exciting. This is the time when you will have to use your self-discipline to complete the task at hand.
A lot of guitar players will tell you at this point”Hey man, guitar’s supposed to be all about fun! If I have to use my self-discipline, I’ll no longer enjoy it.” If anyone says that to you, have a look at their playing. Most of the time they are not very good 
They have not reached a virtuoso level of playing, so why listen to them!
The point of discipline is when most guitar players quit. Rather than using their self-discipline to TRULY master the lick/exercise, they stop practicing it and move onto something new. It’s tempting isn’t it? We’ve ALL done this at some point in our development as a guitarist. But what’s the cost of doing this?
Some of the negative consequences of quitting at the point of discipline include:
1.You’ll never reach the virtuoso levels of guitar playing. Can you imagine virtuosos like Yngwie Malmsteen, Rusty Cooley, Michael Angelo etc, quitting before they have mastered what they are working on? I don’t think so! They didn’t become so incredible by being quitters. They have learned to tap into their self-discipline.
2. You’ll never have that feeling of pride that comes with truly mastering something.
3. You won’t learn to confront your present technical limitations and overcome them. This will mean that you’ll learn a lot of new things but your overall level of playing won’t become elevated.
4. You’ll know about 1007 bits of songs, but if someone asks you to play a song from start to finish, you can’t.
Not a pretty picture is it? So what are some things that you can do about it? Here are a few ideas
1.When learning a new lick or exercise, set a speed goal. Keep practicing the
lick/exercise until the speed goal has been reached. Realise that this can sometimes take weeks, months (or even years!).
2. Learn to enjoy using your self-discipline. Feel proud about yourself every time you follow through and master something.
3. Use visualization. See yourself in your mind’s eye becoming a guitar virtuoso. This will help keep you motivated and enthusiastic!
4. Make a commitment to completion. With everything you learn, refuse to quit. Keep
working on it until it has been mastered.
I guarantee that if you learn to tap into your self-discipline your guitar playing will improve at an accelerated rate! Of course, if you want to sit on the couch watching TV and eating bags of potato chips,dreaming about one day becoming an awesome guitarist, that’s cool also!
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Craig Bassett (The Guitar Solutions Expert) is a professional guitarist, guitar tutor and author living in Auckland, New Zealand.
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