Why does music on my MP3 player sound better with small earphones than with big headphones? [more inside]
posted by murtagh on Nov 1, 2009 - 10 answers

Help me get my digital music collection into the living room, with semi-decent sound quality and without breaking the bank. [more inside]
posted by iamisaid on Oct 13, 2009 - 14 answers

What mp3 player should my wife get? [more inside]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm on Sep 12, 2009 - 31 answers

One of my mp3 files does not get burned to CD in its entirety (using Windows Media Player). The actual duration is roughly 53 minutes, and the mp3 plays flawlessly all the way through in WMP, but only around 48 minutes gets burned to the CD. [more inside]
posted by darwesh on Sep 7, 2009 - 1 answer

I like my vinyl records. I want to make digital files out of them. What are my options ... which don't include a new turntable and, preferably but not absolutely, don't require my computer and stereo to be in the same room? I'm on a Mac.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy on Sep 2, 2009 - 19 answers

How can I speed up the tempo of some MP3 files and burn them onto a CD for faster playback? [more inside]
posted by querty on Aug 29, 2009 - 5 answers

How can I convert flac files to mp3 in Windows? [more inside]
posted by Pope Guilty on May 19, 2009 - 11 answers

I need to move several gigs of music files from one external hard drive to another. But, there are a few problems... [more inside]
posted by reenum on Apr 23, 2009 - 16 answers

Migrating from an iPod to a cellphone... was the awesome surgically removed though? [more inside]
posted by trinarian on Apr 21, 2009 - 2 answers

Looking for a specific Spotify audio add (Chris Cornell's). [more inside]
posted by XiBe on Apr 14, 2009 - 2 answers

Any good libraries for transcoding audio, preferably with a Ruby API? I'm thinking "like ImageMagick, but for audio files." [more inside]
posted by lowlife on Mar 25, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a command-line tool that can return a volume value for specific points of time in an MP3 file. [more inside]
posted by joe vrrr on Mar 10, 2009 - 7 answers

How can I create my own Couch to 5K running podcast? [more inside]
posted by kidsleepy on Mar 9, 2009 - 7 answers

I'm trying to make a high quality mp3 of the first 3:41 of this yt video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz-x7YMVCk [more inside]
posted by cashman on Mar 8, 2009 - 5 answers

So I recently came to the end of correcting all the ID3 tags on my massive music collection. The last 14 or so took me more time than I'm willing to admit to track down information on. But I knew at the end which two would remain. I've had these two songs in my collection for at least a decade now, and every time I've tried to find any information on the song titles, artist, or even lyrics, I've turned up nothing. I've tried all kinds of tricks I know for finding even the most obscure information on the internet, but still nothing. As a firm believer that anything which exists can be found on the internet, I find myself troubled that these songs, which clearly exist, apparently do not. Help me out, and try to cure my madness? [more inside]
posted by monkeyagent on Mar 5, 2009 - 9 answers

What is the simplest way (free or otherwise) to convert M4P and M4A audio files to MP3 en masse?
posted by fusinski on Mar 1, 2009 - 13 answers

can i extract the audio from youtube videos to create an mp3? [more inside]
posted by alice ayres on Feb 17, 2009 - 13 answers

What device would allow best access to playlists of mp3 at home? Doesnt need to be portable, must not be laptop... [more inside]
posted by therubettes on Jan 27, 2009 - 21 answers

What's the best program to convert hundreds of gigabytes of music files in different formats all to MP3, while maintaining ID3 data and bitrates? [more inside]
posted by jkl345 on Jan 11, 2009 - 7 answers

Looking for hardware recommendations for a very modest home Linux server. [more inside]
posted by scruss on Jan 3, 2009 - 10 answers

I'm looking for a digital audio recorder with good line-in recording capabilities and easy file transfer options - do you know any? [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 22, 2008 - 20 answers

Through a long series of circumstances, I need to reencode my entire .mp3 music collection. I would like to reencode them at the same bitrate, but am getting very strange results when I do. Please help! [more inside]
posted by WidgetAlley on Dec 15, 2008 - 10 answers

I would like to set up a system where my turntable and my iMac all flow out of a nice set of speakers. I have no idea where to start. [more inside]
posted by Foam Pants on Dec 14, 2008 - 9 answers

I need intelligent hiphop/rap with good beats. Any recommendations? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Dec 4, 2008 - 69 answers

Several mp3s in my large collection are silent, or almost entirely so. Please help me find ways of detecting them automatically. [more inside]
posted by scruss on Nov 29, 2008 - 5 answers

Is there anything approximating a Windows-based version of the OSX application PandoraJam, allowing me to record tracks suggested by the Pandora website? [more inside]
posted by newfers on Oct 24, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there an easy way to rip a video DVD to MP3, so that each chapter on the disc is a separate MP3 file? [more inside]
posted by indyz on Oct 17, 2008 - 5 answers

What are the best embedded open source/free audio/video players? [more inside]
posted by avocet on Jul 12, 2008 - 7 answers

convert vocals only from mp3 to midi for Ultrastar import? [more inside]
posted by nolnar on Jun 26, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm looking for an audio file. Its the sound you here in for example a military program as "official" graphics appear to be typed onto the screen.
posted by Yer-Ol-Pal on May 22, 2008 - 7 answers

Is my mp3 player frying my headphones? Is this even possible; if so, how? [more inside]
posted by keith0718 on Apr 24, 2008 - 5 answers

I work on the production team for a long-running public radio program. We have a massive archive of shows in digital format (MP3 and AIFF) which we need to collate into a powerful and highly flexible database - something like iTunes, but much more advanced. Does a program exist to do this? [more inside]
posted by mykescipark on Apr 23, 2008 - 5 answers

Looking for the best portable players for DRM audiobooks and other large MP3 files [more inside]
posted by reenum on Apr 22, 2008 - 9 answers

Looking for off the beaten path podcasts and ways to find podcasts online. [more inside]
posted by reenum on Apr 15, 2008 - 10 answers

I need some short podcasts to listen to at work and the gym [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jan 22, 2008 - 20 answers

I have an mp3, one channel of which is way quieter than the other. How can I fix it so the two channels are the same volume? [more inside]
posted by Solomon on Jan 2, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm looking for an MP3 player that you can treat like a USB drive. In other words, I want to load MP3s onto it by just plugging the device into my machine and the copying files over. I do not want to use a specialized program like Itunes, and I want to use a standard USB or Firewire cable to plug the device into my computer. [more inside]
posted by Afroblanco on Dec 24, 2007 - 32 answers

Please help my girlfriend buy a cheap mp3 player for a 16-year-old girl in foster care she's "adopted" for the holidays. [more inside]
posted by Ian A.T. on Dec 1, 2007 - 30 answers

My aunt's family has been listening to the same Christmas tape (as in, the same physical tape) repeatedly for about 25 years. The tape was originally made by dubbing from vinyl. I'd like, as a gift, to remaster the whole thing, but I need help identifying all the song versions. [more inside]
posted by dmd on Nov 20, 2007 - 25 answers

I have an mp3 I'd like to use as a ring tone, but it's 2 seconds too long. I don't want to cut off the beginning or end, but is there some other way to shorten it to 30 seconds? What software (OS X please) can do this? I realize some options might make it sound slightly off, but it's a ring tone so I shouldn't be too bothered by it.
posted by howling fantods on Oct 26, 2007 - 12 answers

At work, we have to deal with many many requests for audio clips. That is, receiving a CD, cutting 30, 60 or 90 seconds (or some other arbitrary length) from some or all of the tracks and turning them into MP3 or FLV files for use on our websites. I'm searching for a way to better automate this process, as it is unbelievably tedious process as you can imagine. My ideal solution would be able to insert a CD (or take a set of mp3 files) and run a program that would let me select start and end points for all tracks or each track individually, select a format (mp3 required, swf/flv nice but not absolutely necessary) and press a button to have it executed. Does anyone know of such a beast?
posted by softlord on Oct 9, 2007 - 13 answers

Does anyone have suggestions for turning a giant TV and stereo into a cover-art browsable jukebox with interactive playlisting? I basically want a giant video ipod in my living room with "on the go" playlisting. [more inside]
posted by butterstick on Oct 6, 2007 - 20 answers

I'm trying to sort and clean up a media library that contains a total of 16431 items, 51.2 days, 108 GB. So hand sorting is out of the question. Itunes seems to have found Some Duplicates, That need to be deleted. This has proven to be a grueling task if its to be done manually. [more inside]
posted by Chamunks on Sep 24, 2007 - 7 answers

Know a good feeware program to record anything that goes through the sound card to an mp3? [more inside]
posted by andrewdunn on Sep 4, 2007 - 9 answers

I need Mac software to let me edit out "stage talk" on some mp3s. [more inside]
posted by BradNelson on Jul 30, 2007 - 13 answers

Is there a portable mp3 player that can adjust tempo during playback without affecting pitch?
posted by irv4oh on Jul 29, 2007 - 12 answers

Recommendations for mobile sound recording on the cheap? [more inside]
posted by SirStan on Jul 26, 2007 - 11 answers

Is there a way in iTunes (or another application) to make all of the songs on a playlist be approximately the same volume? [more inside]
posted by k8t on Jul 11, 2007 - 9 answers

[Musofilter] What goes with the forgotten 1986 masterpiece : The The - Infected ? [more inside]
posted by Webbster on May 17, 2007 - 34 answers

How do you breakout and save an audio file recorded in a Camtasia presentation? [more inside]
posted by Asherah on Apr 11, 2007 - 2 answers