There are lots of mp3 players available. Check out the Plays for Sure website to help you choose an mp3 player.

The majority of NLS audio books are recorded by professional narrators in the studios of contractors, who bid each year on book production. These contractors are usually nonprofit organizations that also provide other products and services for blind and physically handicapped individuals. In addition, a small number of titles (about one hundred) are recorded in volunteer studios. NLS maintains a recording studio in its Washington, D.C. See similar questions...

Music you add as part of your subscription to Charter Music can only be transferred to subscription-compatible devices. This means that you must have one of the devices listed at www.playsforsure.com if you want to take the subscription music to go. You may also play most other types of music on these players, including burnable downloads, music you imported yourself, etc. But to play portable music, you must have one of the players listed at www.playsforsure.com. See similar questions...

Only a few. About 7 percent of audio books produced for NLS each year are recorded in volunteer studios. One reason that this number is not larger is that it is very difficult to reach and maintain the quality standards for NLS books, so many volunteer studios choose to record books and magazines for their local area only. Also, since volunteers seldom narrate every day, volunteer studios tend to take much longer to record books. See similar questions...

Singme! music are in MP3 format so they are compatible with bulky MP3 CD players, iPod, Sony PSP, music-capable phones, pocket pc, and all portable MP3 players in the market. You can play these backing tracks in your computer using music programs/applications like Windows Media, WinAmp, Real Player, iTunes application, etc. See similar questions...

They are the next generation of personal portable music players. They play MP3s and a variety of other sound files that can be downloaded cheaply or for free from the Internet and sometimes CDs. See similar questions...

No. MP3 is MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio compression. (MP3 is not MPEG-3.) The DVD-Video spec allows Layer 2 only. MP3 can be played on a computer with a DVD-ROM drive, but not in a DVD-Video player. See similar questions...

MP3 music can be played on many software and hardware players. Some new inexpensive MP3 hardware players are quite inexpensive, very small and, having no moving parts, are virtually immune to shock. Other CD players can play regular Audio CDs as well MP3 music from your custom CD. See similar questions...

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) available to CVTC staff, faculty, and students. See similar questions...

You don't need an iPod or MP3 player to listen. You can listen to our MP3 audio workshops on your computer either in "streaming" mode (just click to play) or download them for later listening. If you own an iPod or MP3 player, you can import the downloaded audio files to it and listen that way. See similar questions...

BACK to TOP of PAGE The way the program works is that you can either listen to text (your book or any text) or you can set it to silently convert your book to an MP3 file. It take my computer about 20 minutes to convert a large book. Just set it and forget it. The program will convert the book to either .wav or .mp3 and save it to your harddrive. Then you have two options. If you converted the book to . See similar questions...

BACK to TOP of PAGE Text to speech technology has come a long way in ten years. The program I include is the free version. The voice is not as natural as I would like ( very much like Steven Hawkings the physicist) But it is easy to understand. However the same company www.nextup.com makes a $39.95 8khz version of the program that includes AT&T Natural Voices and it is trully amazing. Not quite James Earl Jones but very natural. (they also make a 16khz Natural Voices version for $51. See similar questions...

MP3 audio books can be played on any new version of CD players that support the MP3 technology - mostly those that can accept a 4.75 diameter disk. They an also be played on any PC that has Microsoft's Windows Media Player or other related software. See similar questions...

NetLibrary requires users to create their own accounts. If you haven't yet created an account start from the Portal page (click the MU Library button). This page allows you to access NetLibrary from our proxy server, which makes NetLibrary think you're physically on campus, since only campus users can be authenticated as authorized users. If you already registered once before but can't remember the login and password, you'll have to create a new account. See similar questions...