Music.

Anyone that knows me will know that I am a fan of popular music and that I have a large collection of CD's, digital files, vinyl and cassette's in my collection and it consist' s of many different genres but is mainly rock and roll, I love the way that technology has advanced the music world and the way that we are able to obtain music today, be it the way that we buy CD's from the Internet to downloading a complete album in digital form. Although the advent of the Internet has made it possible to buy just about any song that has ever been written weather it be in digital form, CD or good old fashioned vinyl, there has sadly been a demise in the high street record store, in my local town there are no dedicated record stores any more although one can still by CD's from the local supermarket. I always support my artist' s and avoid pirated copies of music as my policy on this is that if one should do work by creating a song or an album one should be paid for that work, so if some one copies music and gives it away or sells it the person that wrote and recorded it is not going to be paid, you would not like it if you went to work for your employer for eight hours and got paid for seven hours would you? It is the same thing here, the person that created the music you are listening to should be rewarded in the correct manner.

Playback.

   Music can be played back in a variety of ways and on a variety of devices these days and these include CD players, MP3 players, memory sticks and memory cards. The most common and easiest way is listening to a pre-recorded CD on a CD player, this is ok but you will have to manually change the disc to be able to listen to an assortment of tracks unless you have a Hi Fi with a built in CD changer, CD changer's allow you to change between disc's that you have pre loaded in to your HI Fi system. A much better way is to have a Hi Fi system that plays MP3 files from a disc, if you have such a system (these are becoming more popular) you simply convert the music on your CD's into MP3 files using your PC and some suitable software such as Nero or Roxio, although this can be done with Windows Media player, and then you write the files to a CD disc for play back in your Hi Fi, it is possible to have 250 or more tracks on one disc so you can imagine how much music you can have at your finger tips especially if you have multiple disc CD player, your Hi Fi may have a jack point that allows an MP3 player to be plugged in, so if you have a portable MP3 player you can also transfer your MP3 files from your PC to this device and plug it in to your Hi Fi for playback through your Hi Fi. Most modern mobile phones have MP3 players built in to them and can be used in much the same way so you are able to have your music with you all the time. Modern in car entertainment systems also have the same playback capabilities i.e; you can play MP3 files from a disc or plug an MP3 player in via a data cable or connect via blue tooth.