Rockin' in the Free World: All About MP3s
How to make them, download them, organize them, play them, and take them
with you.
Gregg Keizer, special to PC World
Wednesday, May 03, 2000
 Everyone from Jack and Diane to me and Bobby McGee is getting hooked
on MP3 music. Thanks to the "squeeze bits until they scream" compression of
this digital music format, you can download free tunes from the Internet,
store them on your hard drive for a mere 3MB or so each, and transfer them
to pocket-size portable devices. And the sound quality is great.
To get you going, we'll walk you through the most important steps: finding
and using an MP3 player program, downloading new tunes from the Net, and converting
your existing CD collection to MP3s.
Worried about how much this is gonna cost? Don't be. We know that what's
important is having cash to buy new CDs, so we've made sure to track down
cost-free ways to satisfy your budding MP3 habit.
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