>>>>What music formats can be played on an MP3 player, and more specifically, an iPod?
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>>>>Can WinMedPlayer WMA files be played?
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>>>>Strange how a 6-odd mbyte track in .wma takes up just 1K as a .cda on the CD
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>>>>Is a .cda track emailable?
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>>>http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/consumer_electronics/ipod_faq/ipod-supported-music-formats-good-sound-quality.html
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>>>I think that the cda link is just that - a link to a file and not the music file itself.
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>>>By the way I am using a software program to record audio and it is named Reaper. The full version is free with no time limits. You are asked to pay $40 if you like it. It is a super program and beats all the recording software I have bought.
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>>>http://reaper.fm/
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>>OK, thanks chaps. I want to email a 6MByte-odd .wma track, ripped from a CD. It won't compress any more to a winzip, as expected. ANy suggestions?
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>Do you have conversion software? Sounds like a job for MP3.
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>How many CDA 1k files will fit on a 800 Meg CD? :)


I am finding out how many music CDs will fit on an 80 GB iPod. The copy project is still ongoing but it looks like the iPod will hold all 600 or so of my CDs. It's going to wind up with somewhere in the neighborhood of 18,000 songs on a player the size of a pack of cigarettes, only thinner.