Audio

Verizon Song ID review and accuracy testing

Verizon Wireless has a feature on their cellphones that sounds very cool: while listening to music, you can let your cellphone listen for a few seconds, after which it will identify the song, artist and album. The full name of the application is “Verizon V CAST Song ID”. It’s a free application from Verizon that […]

How to read books on an iPod

The iPod does not have an ebook-specific reader, or just a text format good for reading ebooks. It’s unfortunate, because the style and capabilities of iPods make them perfect for such functions. Sure, you can use the iPod as a portable hard drive to read ebooks on any PC. But if you want to use […]

Dictating to Dragon NaturallySpeaking with a voice recorder

Aliya writes and Andy answers: I really appreciated your article on Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM ViaVoice. I am debating on writing articles using voice recognition, and am contemplating on picking up a Rio Carbon 5g to dictate articles and book chapters, ideas, thoughts, etc., so that I can actually publish something. Great, but the Rio digital […]

Digital voice recorder review

So you want to record yourself talking? Then listen up. Micro-cassette tape recorders have their place, but lawyers, doctors, podcasters, students, writers and composers can benefit more with a high-tech digital voice recorder (DVR). A DVR is similar to a cassette recorder in functionality, but the recording is made without audio tape. These recordings can […]

Transfer your PC MP3s and audio to cassette tape

Podcasting, shmodcasting. What if you don’t have an MP3 player welded to your side? What if your car only has a cassette deck, no CD-player, and you’ve just gotta listen to your music and podcast collection? It’s easy to convert PC sound to cassette tape, though you’ll need some special equipment. The non-Andy-recommended way (we’ll […]

RiffTrax: Please talk during the movie

In the not-too-distant past, television gave us a unique and successful experiment in the field of satire and intelligent humor. “Mystery Science Theater 3000” was the unwieldy yet appropriate title of a show where you watched people making fun of movies. Literally watching an entire movie with the cast of MST3K was the reason each […]

Converting audio cassette tapes to CD, MP3 and other digital formats

See more Audacity questions and answers at the Audacity Q&A. My parents recently redecorated a room in their house. While cleaning up, they found a cassette tape wedged in a back corner, covered in thick layers of time and memory. Just looking at it, you could tell it was old: The label, originally red and […]

Burned CD not working in car CD player

Keith asks: How come when I burn music from the internet onto a CD, sometimes the CD won’t play in my car’s CD player? Am I doing something wrong? Others I know have had this same problem. This is always a frustrating problem. A CD that’s burned on one machine will play fine in another, […]

Automatically finding vinyl track and time information

George asks a question about converting Vinyl to CD and MP3, while automatically pulling track and time information: I want to transfer my valuable vinyl collection to my PC first and later onto CD. The problem is that I don’t have time to type in the information for every album, every track, etc. Is there […]

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