User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Creative Sound Blaster Wireless Music
- Contents
- Introduction
- Your Sound Blaster Wireless Music At A Glance
- Getting Started
- Using Your Remote Control
- Configuring Settings
- About Music Files
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Maintenance and Safety Advice
- Technical Specifications
- Glossary
- Ad-hoc mode
- Antenna
- Access Point (AP)
- Bandwidth
- BSS (Basic Service Set)
- DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
- Dynamic IP address
- Encryption
- IEEE 802.11
- IEEE 802.11b
- IEEE 802.11g
- Infrastructure mode
- IP (Internet Protocol)
- IP address
- LAN (Local Area Network)
- MAC (Media Access Control) address
- Router
- SSID (Service Set Identity)
- Static IP address
- TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol)
- USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
- Wi-Fi
About Music Files A-1
About Music Files
Overview
You can download music files from Internet music sites, or "rip" music files from
audio CDs to your computer. Music files that you add to the Wireless Music
Application must, however, be MP3 or WMA files.
MP3 and WMA files are music files that have lossy compression encoding, which
means that some data is lost during compression. However, using standard
sampling rates and bitrates will ensure that these music files retain much of their
audio quality. The standard bitrate of most MP3 files is 128 Kbps, although some
are set higher, at 160 or 192 Kbps. The standard bitrate for most WMA files is 64
Kbps. Higher bitrates will result in better audio quality, but file sizes will be larger
as a consequence.
Downloading
from the
Internet
To get MP3 files from the Internet, use a search engine to locate sites with MP3
content. You can also try out these sites (web sites listed here are correct at the
time of this document’s release):
❑
NOMADWorld (http://www.NOMADworld.com)
❑ AMP3.com (http://www.amp3.com)
❑ SoundClick.com (http://www.soundclick.com)
❑ ArtistOne.com (http://www.artistone.com)
❑ Epitonic.com (http://www.epitonic.com)
❑ Soundbuzz.com (http://www.soundbuzz.com)
Follow the instructions on the sites to download the music files to your computer.
"Ripping"
Audio CDs
The first phase of "ripping" is extracting audio data (usually WAV files) from an
audio CD. Encoding is the second phase, where the audio data is converted into
MP3 or WMA files. To "rip" audio CDs, you will need a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
that can extract digital audio data, and a program such as Creative MediaSource
Organizer that can extract and encode this data. With Creative MediaSource
Organizer, you can "rip" most audio CDs, as well as organize and transfer these
"ripped" files.