How to Do Everything With Your Dell Dj,9780072255508

How to Do Everything With Your Dell Dj

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ISBN13: 9780072255508
ISBN10: 0072255501
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-10
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Summary

Marc Saltzman shows how to get the most out of this exciting new device, including 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. Shows how to get the most out of your Dell DJ experience with basic tips, little-known tricks, and plenty of advice on digital music management. Shows how to back up old LPs, cassettes, and other formats as digital files and copy over to your Dell DJ.

Author Biography

Marc Saltzman (Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada) is a freelance journalist, author, lecturer, consultant, and radio and TV personality. His specialties include computers, the Internet, consumer electronics, digital music, video gaming, and telecommunications. Saltzman’s work appears regularly in major national publications including USA Today, CNN.com, Gannett News Service (106 newspapers), LA Times, Newsweek, Playboy, ESPN Gamer, and PC Gamer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
PART I Getting Started
CHAPTER 1 Welcome to the Dell Digital Jukebox
3(12)
A Brief Overview of the Dell DJ
5(5)
Inside (and Outside) the DJ
9(1)
Introduction to Musicmatch Jukebox
10(3)
Alternatives to Jukebox
12(1)
DJ Resources Online
13(2)
Where to Find It
13(2)
CHAPTER 2 Getting Set Up
15(14)
Charge the DJ
16(2)
Prep Your PC
18(3)
All About USB
18(3)
Install the Software
21(3)
Existing Musicmatch Users
22(1)
Check for New Firmware
22(2)
Troubleshooting the DJ
24(5)
Troubleshooting Musicmatch Jukebox
24(3)
Finding DJ Help Online
27(2)
CHAPTER 3 Quick Start: Get Music into Your DJ
29(20)
A Quick Tour of Musicmatch Jukebox
30(9)
Add Music to Musicmatch
33(2)
Play a Single Song
35(1)
Build and Play a Playlist
36(1)
What Is a Playlist?
36(3)
Loading Songs onto the DJ
39(10)
Loading Tracks from the Library
42(1)
Loading Tracks from Elsewhere on the Hard Disk
43(1)
Loading a Playlist
44(1)
Syncing Your Entire Library
44(1)
Upgrading Musicmatch
45(4)
PART II The Dell DJ Experience: Downloading, Organizing, and Enjoying Digital Music
CHAPTER 4 A Digital Music Primer
49(16)
What Makes It Digital?
50(6)
Sound Waves 101
51(2)
The Age-Old Debate: Digital or Analog?
53(3)
Making Sense of Audio Formats
56(5)
How Bit Rate Affects Sound Quality
56(1)
So Just What Is MP3?
57(1)
What's the Big Deal About Compression?
57(1)
And What's WMA?
58(1)
And Those Other File Formats
59(1)
Which Format to Use?
60(1)
Picking a Bit Rate
61(1)
Where Do Digital Music Files Come From?
61(4)
What About All the Legal Stuff?
62(1)
The Ultimate Portable Player
62(3)
CHAPTER 5 Ripping Music from CD
65(16)
Working with Jukebox Software
66(15)
Using a Jukebox
67(6)
Using Other Jukeboxes
73(5)
Dealing with Glitches
78(3)
CHAPTER 6 Copying Music from LP and Cassette
81(30)
Making the Connection
82(9)
Sound Card Inputs
84(2)
Analog Source Outputs
86(1)
Cabling It All Together
87(4)
Audio Recording Software
91(1)
Prep for Surgery with Audio Editors
91(1)
Making the Recording
92(8)
Setting the Recording Device
94(2)
Setting Sound Levels
96(1)
Recording Your Audio
97(2)
Recording Strategies
99(1)
Editing Your Music
100(6)
Cleaning Up Noisy Audio
104(2)
Giving Your Music the Gift of ID3
106(5)
CHAPTER 7 Downloading Music from the Internet
111(20)
Download Music from Musicmatch
112(5)
Buying Your First Song
114(3)
Download Music from Other Online Services
117(4)
The Format Workaround
121(1)
File-Sharing Services
121(9)
A Brief History of the MP3 Controversy
122(5)
How to Not Break the Law
127(3)
And in the End
130(1)
CHAPTER 8 Listening to Audiobooks and Radio Shows
131(18)
Download and Go with Replay Radio
132(13)
Understanding Internet Radio
132(4)
Get Started with Replay Radio
136(9)
Audiobooks from Audible.com
145(4)
Converting Audible Files into MP3s
147(1)
Where to Find It
148(1)
CHAPTER 9 Managing a Digital Music Collection
149(16)
Planning for Music Storage
150(2)
Organizing Your Songs
152(3)
Controlling Playback with Filenames
153(1)
Selecting a Folder and Filename Strategy
153(2)
Editing Music File ID Tags
155(3)
Changing Several Tracks at Once
157(1)
Fixing the File Type Association
158(7)
PART III Do More with Your Dell DJ
CHAPTER 10 Listening to Music on the DJ
165(16)
Getting Around the DJ
167(4)
Buttons, Sliders, and Wheels, Oh My
167(4)
Playing Music
171(6)
Using Play Views and Selected Music
175(1)
Controlling Your Play Mode
176(1)
Adjusting the DJ's Settings
177(4)
CHAPTER 11 Optimizing the Sound
181(14)
Back to Bit Rates
182(3)
Should You Re-rip?
183(2)
All Things Being Equalized
185(2)
The Ears Have It
187(2)
Learn to Love Volume Leveling
189(6)
How to Apply Volume Leveling
189(4)
Where to Find It
193(2)
CHAPTER 12 Accessorize!
195(16)
Happiness Is Happenin' Headphones
196(3)
Dave's Favorite: Bose QuietComfort 2
197(1)
Rick's Favorite: Shure E3c
198(1)
Make Your DJ the Hub of Your Home Stereo
199(2)
Build a Home Stereo Around the DJ
201(1)
Use Your DJ in Your Car
202(4)
DJ Carrying Cases
206(5)
Where to Find It
209(2)
CHAPTER 13 Managing Music with Playlists
211(18)
Playlists and Musicmatch
213(5)
What Is a Playlist, Really?
214(1)
Creating a New Playlist
214(4)
Playlists and Transferring Music
218(4)
Copying Playlists via the Portable Device Manager
218(3)
Drag and Drop Between Playlists
221(1)
Playlists on the Dell DJ
222(7)
Finding Your Playlists
223(1)
Playing Your Playlists
224(1)
Creating or Editing a Playlist
224(5)
CHAPTER 14 Beyond Musicmatch: Using Other Music Software with the DJ
229(24)
Life Beyond Musicmatch
230(1)
Using Windows Media Player
231(5)
Copying Music to the Dell DJ
231(4)
Deleting Tracks from the DJ
235(1)
Using Dudebox
236(17)
A Quick Tour of Dudebox
238(2)
Copy Music to the Dell DJ
240(2)
Copy Music from the DJ to Your PC
242(1)
Play Music on Your DJ from Your PC
243(4)
Stream Music to Your PC
247(6)
CHAPTER 15 Recording Audio with the DJ
253(16)
Press Here to Record
255(3)
Play Back Recordings
258(1)
Delete Recordings
259(1)
Transfer Recordings to Your PC
259(10)
Rename Your Recordings
263(1)
Use Your Recordings in Other Applications
264(4)
Where to Find It
268(1)
CHAPTER 16 Use Your DJ as a Digital Briefcase
269(10)
The Data Side of Dell DJ Explorer
271(4)
Moving Files to Another Computer
274(1)
The Data Side of Dudebox
275(1)
Copy Files to the DJ
276(3)
Index 279

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