May 12, 2008
Technical Skills for the Modern Musician
This show originates at http://www.musicianscooler.com
As I play with more and more musicians I’m surprised at how many don’t have ANY knowledge of some of the "Technical" stuff that you can use to marketing your music. Today I talk about making an mp3 from a CD. When you’re music is in MP3 format you can email a song to people. Here is an example:
Typically you would give everyone a CD at practice, and maybe spend some time listening to the CD. Why not turn the CD into MP3’s and email the songs ahead of time to the band members. Then people can decide if they like the song or not. This means instead of making practice a "listening party" it now turns into a productive time or put the songs together that you learned at home.
However to do this you need to know how to take a CD and "turn" it into an mp3. To do this we will use iTunes. Why iTunes? This program is free and it works on both a Mac and a PC. Here are some steps:
CREATING AN MP3 IN iTUNES
Click on the Edit menu and choose Preferences
Click on the Advanced tab.
Click on the General tab and you will see where this file will be saved. This is important if you are going to email it to someone. You need to know where to find it on your computer (so take note).
Click on the Importing tab
Choose the option for MP3 encoding at 128 Kbps.
Click on OK.
When you put in your CD, it won’t recognize your music (but it would recognize someone on a major label). When it appears it will show as "Audio CD." RIGHT CLICK on the Audio CD and choose Get Info.
Enter your name, the title of the CD, the genre and year. Now iTunes has information about the CD but not the tracks.
Click on your first track, and then RIGHT CLICK and choose Get Info. Here you can enter the name of track 1. Click the NEXT button to move to the next song (where you would enter the name of the song). Repeat until you’re done with all the tracks. That’s it. Now your music is in a digital format. You can email to people, or you can burn just certain tracks to a CD.
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