Music Match Jukebox
A great program for organising and storing your music and burning to CD as standard music tracks or MP3s
As a music lover, one program I wouldn’t do without on my computer is MusicMatch Jukebox. I first encountered this program when an OEM version was bundled into one of the first computer packages I bought from PC World. At first I thought it was just for playing music CDs that I put into my CD drive, but then I found that if I upgraded, I would have a program that I could record from vinyl records, tapes and radio, if I connected it up to my computer, and that I could then burn them on to CD to play in my home or car CD player. And more… I could burn them as MP3s and get a whole load more tracks on a CD that way.
1: Connecting your player to your computer:
The image on the left, shows the ends of a stereo phono connection cable with two adpapters (1 black & 1 silver in this case). One needs to be plugged into your PC Sound card and the other can be plugged into the ear-phone socket of your music player (if you don't have phono-out connections).
2: Music Match Main Program Interface
Pressing the red button
(top left) on the program's main interface brings up the recorder
window(picture directly below).
In
the recording window you can give your music track a name, press
play on your external player to record. Pressing the blue stop botton,
stops the recording.
Important: To protect your computer's sound card, ensure the the volume is turned right down on your music player, then begin to play the music you want to record onto your hard drive, slowly increasing the volume until it is acceptable. It is a good idea to record about a minute of the recording into Music Match and then play it back at high volume to see if it's loud enough, but not so loud that it becomes distorted.
The track your record will appear in the library (the large window at the bottom of the Music Match main interface). Once they appear there, you can double click on them and they will begin to play one at a time as they appear in the play-list in the top right window of the Main Interface. Here they can be re-arranged in any order. When you are ready then, you can click the "Burn" button and burn the entire playlist to CD. If there are too many tracks to fit on your CD-R, Music Match will let you know and ask if you want to split the list on to two CDs.
Above I have briefly outlined how I have created MP3s from my
old vinyl records and cassette tapes, but I have barely touched
upon the capabilities of this program. If you have any questions please
to e-mail me and I will do my best to
help you.
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