Friday, August 31, 2012

About Digital Music: Add Karaoke-style Lyrics to Your MP3 Collection

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From Mark Harris, your Guide to Digital Music

In this week's edition of the Digital Music newsletter:

  • LRC Format: Add Karaoke-style Lyrics to Your MP3 Collection.
  • Free Music Albums on Amazon.
  • Top 4 CD Repair Kits.
  • Digital Music Definition: What is The Vorbis Format?


LRC Format: Add Karaoke-style Lyrics to Your MP3 Collection

You may have already added lyrics to your songs by using an MP3 tagging tool or a software media player that has a built-in metadata editor (like iTunes). However, this method is only good enough for displaying all the lyrics in one go. If you would rather see the words displayed on-screen in karaoke-style, then you'll need to use separate files that are in the LRC format. This is a special format that not only contains the lyrics for a song, but also has... Read more


Free Music Albums on Amazon

It's not always obvious, but Amazon MP3 also provides a great selection of full albums that you can download for free -- that's when you know where to look of course. There are usually quite a few on offer and you can also filter by genre using Amazon's website if you're looking for something in a particular music style. Read more


Top 4 CD Repair Kits

If you've got a scratched CD or DVD that skips, jumps, or simply doesn't play anymore, then a CD/DVD repair kit could just save it from ending up in the trash. If you want to rip your CDs for instance, then you'll need discs that have almost perfect surfaces to produce quality audio files. Investing in a CD repair kit will also save you money in costly replacements. Read more


Digital Music Definition: What is The Vorbis Format?

Vorbis is a lossy audio compression codec that actually gets its name from one of the characters in the Discworld book series written by Terry Pratchett -- namely, Exquisitor Vorbis. But what exactly is this audio format and what software and music services use it? Read more


 


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