We've read that they last from six months to eighty years, but the shorter duration involved storage in the sun and sandpaper - not a pretty idea. We've had no trouble so far - we've had one return which was quickly remedied (and that may have been a blank disc that crept in) and another one with a glitch that we sorted out. These CD-Rs play well on all but the oldest CD player - our home player is from the mid-1990s and they play fine.

There are a number of MP3 players out there, from software that runs on your computer to hand-held portable MP3 players. You will find screenshots and download links from the MP3 Players section of Mp3 Raid. See similar questions...

Yeah, I have both the computers I regularly use connected to stereo systems by cables - I just bought cables from Radio Shack, with a stereo 1/8" plug on one end and two RCA jacks on the other, and I plug the cable into the "line-out" of my audio card and the "aux-in" of my equalizer / mixer. It works fine. See similar questions...

No. You can play the audio content using the Open MG Bundled player included on your disc; the player should automatically start once the disc is inserted in the PC. If you want to play the music on a PC without the disc, or if you want to export the tracks to a portable device, you must first install the Music Player software which is in the bin/win32 folder of your OMG disc. See similar questions...

Your computer can play high quality streaming audio through its own speakers. It can also send that signal to your home stereo system, either through audio cables or through wireless broadcast. See similar questions...

Dino Inglese, a Minidisc T-Station message board member offers this tip for using Simple Burner to circumvent OpenMG Jukebox (see his humorous original posting). CAVEAT: You will need Nero, and Nero's Imagedrive feature, or something similar that can create a virtual CD disc image and allow you to mount it to your desktop. Open Nero, select Audio CD from the presets and drag all the MP3's you want into it. Nero is far less picky about formats and sample rates. I found this method foolproof. See similar questions...

Most decent quality soundcards will play MP3s well, however, if you only have an old 8-bit sound card, then you may have trouble playing 16-bit MP3s. See similar questions...

Copy your own mp3 music into the SND\User folder of THE SETTLERS IV. To play the tunes of your choice, you should then open the ‘Sound’ menu under ‘Options’ in the game. If you then click on the “Play user’s music” option, your selections will be played in a random order. See similar questions...

This is one of the major features of Broadcaster 3.0. Simply drag and drop files or whole folders of MP3s into the Playlist. Find out how here. Tip: Make sure the MP3s are good quality or it will be reflected in your broadcast! See similar questions...

No, there is no material offered for downloading because we have a license to webcast only. To offer downloads we would have to get permission or an agreement with the label or artist representing a specific track. However we did team up with Trackitdown who does that sort of stuff, and many tracks can be bought through download.di.fm, our new download store. See similar questions...

Yes there is, you can decode a MP3 into a wav file with L3dec, you can find it on the encoders page. But there are also mp3 players that can decode MP3s into WAVs. Winamp is one of them. Go to the "prefs", then "output" and select "WAV file output". See similar questions...

WMVHD files, typically created for playback on the XBOX360, can contain a 5.1 audio stream. If you play such a file on a computer that only has two speakers then you will only hear the sound from two of the six channels. This causes for example the voices (center channel) to be almost unhearable. The solution is to downmix the 5.1 channels into 2 channels. There are two ways to do this. You can either use AC3Filter or ffdshow. In ffdshow audio decoder configuration, go to the 'Codecs' page. See similar questions...

Easy, all you need is a cord that is has two RCA connectors on one side and an 1/8th inch jack on the other. You can buy one at Radio Shack. You can get the fancy one that says it is for iPods for $30, or one that does the same thing but does not say iPod on it for $6 bucks. See similar questions...

Answer: Absolutely NOT ! We ONLY use professional public address systems for all of your events. We do not believe in cutting corners when it comes to our equipment. See similar questions...

Before I talk about this, you should know: In the United States and some other countries, you may have to pay patent royalties to use MP3 players or encoders. However, for home users, there is no legal problem with MP3 players. (Thanks to Doug McClean for clearing that up for me!) With that said, the plugins for these things are usually in the rpm.livna.org repository. You install a different package depending on which Fedora MP3 player you want to use. See similar questions...

Quite a few Linux distributions do not include MP3 playback software due to the patent situation of the MP3 format. These patent issues do not affect the user directly, so most distributions make it fairly easy to install MP3 support over the Internet after the installation, making it possible to legally play MP3 files, for non-commercial use. DVDs, on the other hand, are a more difficult situation. Most, if not all, DVDs are encrypted using a system called "CSS". See similar questions...

Make sure you are at the latest firmware version. (at the time of writing v32) Copy and paste your MP3 files to the card. You do not need to use any conversion software, just use Windows Explorer to copy and paste just as you would any file. It is suggested that you create a folder on your media card called Music and put them in there. You can create subfolders as needed since the software allows you to navigate folders. See similar questions...