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