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MP3 Files
MP3 music files are great when you are sitting at your computer. You can easily listen to them with the provided player on this site.
However, if you have a portable MP3 player, it is also easy to carry MP3s with you and listen to them through headphones. All you need to do is download them to a folder and transfer them to your portable player.
However, if you want to play MP3 files in your car or home CD player, then you need to "burn" (move) your downloaded MP3 files onto an audio CD. (Note: some newer players will play MP3 files. In this case all you need to do is copy the downloaded files to a CD.)
To create ("burn") an audio CD from MP3 files, you will need to do three things:
You need to download the MP3 files you want to listen to onto your computer.
An MP3 file is a compressed version of a CD track. You therefore need to expand the MP3 file back into a full-size CD track. This is usually accomplished within the CD "burning" software on your computer. Most CD-R drives (and computers with them) come with all the software you will need. (You can also purchase additional "burning" software or download free or trial software from the Internet.)
You then collect all of the CD tracks together in a directory and tell your software to write them as audio files to a CD-R disk. When you write out the audio tracks, you have to be sure to tell the software that you wish to create an audio CD rather than a CD-ROM. Remember: many more MP3 files will fit on a CD that will the number of standard audio files (tracks)!
PDF Files
You will need Adobe Reader, a freely available download, to view or print these files. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux by clicking here.