![]() MediaMonkey allows you to store all sorts of information about a Track within the Library, and to automatically update tags when changes are made to this information. you'd need to store this information in Tags that are embedded within the file. For instance, you may have a file 'Bryan Adams - Summer of '69.mp3' in which the filename tells you the Artist and the Title, however, if you wanted to also store information about Album, Track #, Year, Music Genre, Rating, Lyrics, etc. Most digitally encoded file formats also allow Track information to be embedded within the file. MediaMonkey supports WMA DRM up to version 9.Įlectronic Frontier Foundation DRM Page Tags ![]() On the other hand, DRM allows some companies to 'rent' music for far less than the cost of purchasing it, and such subscriptions may be worthwhile, depending on your needs. For instance, you may wish to copy the tracks to your MP3 player, however, the DRM might prevent you from doing so. In general, tracks encoded with DRM should be avoided because they can restrict your ability to use them as you see fit-even after you've paid for them. ![]() Specifically, WMA and M4P tracks that are purchased from online music stores can be encoded with different versions of Microsoft's DRM, while tracks purchased from the iTunes music store are encoded with Apple's Fairplay DRM. Some of the formats described above may be encoded with digital rights management (DRM) information. MP3 Encoding Settings Digital Rights Management For lossless compression, the choice depends largely on the devices you use, and whether you prefer an open format like FLAC. For most, MP3 is perfectly adequate and its widespread support makes it a no-brainer as a lossy encoding format. Ultimately, the decision of what format to use for your audio collection is a personal one, involving tradeoffs between audio quality, hard disk space, portability, and future-proofing. What follows is a brief description of some of the various formats supported natively by MediaMonkey to help you choose the ideal format for your digital music collection: The tradeoff, of course, is that depending on the algorithm used and the compression ratio chosen, lossy compression can introduce artifacts that may be apparent, especially as the compression ratio increases. Lossy compression on the other hand, takes advantage of the fact that the human auditory system doesn't notice certain types of signal degradations, thereby achieving much higher compression ratios. Consequently, an audio Track that is compressed with lossless compression can be converted back to its original uncompressed form. Lossless audio compression compresses the audio without losing any of the original signal's integrity. MediaMonkey is able to 'Rip' audio from an Audio CD and save it to your hard drive in a compressed format.Īudio compression can be lossless or lossy. An uncompressed Audio CD can take up close to 700 MB on your hard drive, whereas the same audio in a compressed format often uses less than 20% of the space. a standard Audio CD) are uncompressed, whereas others (e.g. Most media players support several digital audio file formats natively, and others via plug-ins. Ripping & Digital Audio Compression Formats If you delete a Track, you are given the option of deleting it from the Library, or deleting it from the Library and your hard drive.If you change the 'Artist' or 'Album' for a file, the database will be updated as will the file's tag (assuming the option to automatically update tags is set).Once a song is part of the Library, any operation performed on the file will also update the Library as necessary. ![]() To organize your music, you'll want to add it to the Library. The benefit of having your music stored in a database is that you can quickly search your collection of thousands of files for a single Track, and/or organize the files very quickly. Any album or Track that appears in the database is a record of an album or Track that physically exists, either in a drawer somewhere (one of your CD albums), on your hard drive (e.g. The Library is a database of all of your CD albums and audio Tracks. 2 Ripping & Digital Audio Compression Formats. ![]()
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