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Creating audio files and music libraries
Creating music files
You can create several types of audio files for your listening enjoyment,
including WAV, MP3, and WMA files.
Recording WAV audio files
Sound recorder is a simple Windows program that lets you record and play WAV
files. WAV is the most common audio file format used for your Windows system
sounds. For information about playing WAV files, see
“Playing WAV audio files”
on page 64 .
To record a WAV audio file:
Help & Support
For more information about making or
playing an audio recording, click
Start ,
then click Help and Support . Type the
phrases recording audio or playing
audio in the Search box, then click the
arrow.
1
Plug a microphone into the Microphone jack on your notebook. For the
location of the Microphone jack, see your notebook’s hardware guide.
2
Click Start , All Programs , Accessories , Entertainment , then click Sound
Recorder . The Sound Recorder opens.
3
Click (record), then speak into the microphone.
4
When you finish recording, click (stop).
5
Click File , then click Save As . The Save As dialog box opens.
6
Name the recording, specify the location where you want to save the
recording, then click
Save . The recording is saved.
Creating WMA and MP3 music files using Windows Media Player
Important
Some music CDs have copy protection
software. You cannot copy tracks from
these CDs.
Using Windows Media Player, you can copy the tracks from a music CD to your
notebook’s hard drive as WMA or MP3 files.
WMA and MP3 are methods for
digitally compressing high-fidelity music into compact files without noticeably
sacrificing quality. WMA files end in the file extension
WMA , and MP3 files end
in the file extension
MP3
.
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