Remember the days where, if you wanted to listen to music, you had to tape it from the radio or buy the CD? Music wasn’t very portable: you needed a CD player, mini-stereo, Discman or Walkman if you wanted to have music wherever you went. Fortunately, technology has advanced and we now live in the digital era where music is downloadable. No longer are we limited to tapes and CDs bought in the store. You can build a music library on your computer, transfer it to your iPOD or MP3 player and take your music with you, wherever you go. How do you go about building your portable music library? The first step is a computer. Don’t be frightened off by the technical side of things … creating a music library really is child’s play. And chances are, if you can’t work it out, your child will know how to help you! The biggest requirement is disc space – you need to ensure that your computer has enough hard drive capacity to store your music library. Smaller hard drives (those less than 60GB) might struggle with a large music library. If you’re serious about your music, consider buying additional memory, or an external hard drive to keep your music stored on. You also need to keep in mind your Internet connection. There is nothing more painful than waiting for music to download on a low-speed dial-up connection, especially if coverage is patchy and your connection keeps dropping out! For music downloads, you’re better off with a high speed, broadband connection. It will be much faster, and much better for your sanity. Next, you’ll need to figure out what file format you’ll need for you downloaded music. If you want to play your music on your computer only, the file format is less important. Some sort of media player will have come standard with your computer: often, this is Windows Media Player. Once you have downloaded and saved the song onto your hard drive, all you need to do is open the player and browse for new music. Using the player, you can create libraries and playlists. If you are planning to transfer music to your portable music player, file format is more important. With the exception of Apple iPods, all music players will play MP3 and WMA formatted music. Just because they’re different, iPods require their music in AAC format. All players can play music that is encoded in an MP3 format, however not very many commercial music sites offer music in this format. Where to get your music? The most popular and common source of downloadable music are online stores. These websites sell music, usually on a song-by-song or album-at-a-time basis. These sorts of sites require you to pay for the music, so they are all within copyright restrictions and you won’t land yourself in hot water by downloading from them. Popular sites include MSN music, MusicMatch music store and, for those of you with an iPod, iTunes. Actually getting the music onto your machine is quite simple: browse for the song you like, select and click the “Buy” (or, depending on the site, “Download”) button. The song will then be automatically downloaded to the appropriate file on the hard drive of your computer. A second source of music is a music subscription service. They are similar to online music stores in that you select and download music from the internet site, but they differ in the respect that you pay a monthly subscription fee, rather than a per-song or per-album fee. If you plan to download a large volume of music, then a subscription service might be a more economical music choice than an online music store. The downside to these sites is that, unless you continue to pay your monthly subscription fee, you will no longer be able to listen to your music. One of the most popular subscription services is AOL Music, which has library of over two million songs! You couldn’t listen to that much music in a lifetime! Other services include, eMusic, Napster and Rhapsody. All of these work in the same way as AOL music, where you pay a regular subscription fee that allows you to download and listen to as much music as you can. Similar to an online music store, these subscription services are within copyright restrictions and are legal. You don’t have to pay to download music: free sites still exist. You don’t pay a subscription fee, or a purchase fee, which means that these sites are in breach of music copyright laws. In addition, these sites are potentially damaging to the music industry, as the record labels and artists will not receive any royalties from your download. Think about what that means to you before downloading from these sites. These are file-share sites, which rely on users to upload their music and make it available to other users. There will typically be less music available to you, however it will be available for download in MP3 format. The best part about the current and evolving technology is that it is easy, convenient and, dare we say it, fun, to create a music library. Gone are the days when your whole lounge room was taken up with a messy collection of tapes and CDs! If you want to listen to music while you’re traveling, you can invest in an MP3 player. The only real disadvantage of music downloads is that music quality isn’t as good as it is on CDs. With continuing technological advances (MP4 has been developed and is emerging onto the market) however, quality will continue to improve. So what are you waiting for? Get out there, download and start grooving!
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