- Ask The Experts: My DVD Image is Garbled!
- TechLore - May 19, 2005
- Question:I have a Toshiba SD-K620 DVD Player. Sometimes it works fine and sometimes the movies get garbled. Is the tracking off? Is there anything I can do to correct this?-submitted by ERICAnswer:There can be many reasons why a DVD movie will not pl...
- Rage Solo Sound Skateboard BMX Helmet w/ Speakers
- TechLore - April 19, 2005
- Two of my favorite activities are bicycling and listening to music. Historically, they have not been a good combination, because headphones can block out traffic noise that you need to hear to stay safe. Last year, I received a Rage helmet with built...
- Ask The Experts: How Do I Play My Camera's Video Clips on My DVD Player
- TechLore - February 10, 2005
- Question Dear Sir, please can you help. I Have a Canon digital camera which records and plays 30 seconds clips of video. These can be copied to a CD and played in a program called QuickTime on my computer, but it they will not play in my home DVD pla...
- WMA or MP3 format and other thoughts on ripping CDs
- TechLore - February 6, 2005
- When I first starting creating MP3s from my CDs, I just hit the 'record' button on the software and let the software do the rest. After some more investigation and speaking to a couple of people, I quickly realized that there is more to ripping a CD ...
- Ask The Experts: Deciphering the mysterious "M-Error"
- TechLore - February 3, 2005
- Question: I have a Fisher Studio 24 compact disc player and when I put a disc in and push play it says searching ,but then says M-error. What does that mean? What can I do? -submitted by debbie4000 Answer: There's nothing like cryptic error messages ...
- Ask The Experts: No Removeable Disc Drive For My MP3 Player
- TechLore - February 2, 2005
- Question: I just bought a Memorex MMP8500 mp3 player for my son. I installed the software, but it does not bring up a Removable Disc Drive for me to use for copying songs from Real Player. Any idea how I can get that RDD to come up? -submitted by gml...
- Are CDs a Thing of the Past?
- TechLore - February 1, 2005
- It didn't take too many memberships to CD clubs to realize that my CD collection would get pretty unwielding pretty fast. Early on, I knew that every time I wanted to listen to a CD, it wasn't going to work to...
- Ask The Experts: My Audio Device Only Plays the First 10 Seconds of a Song
- TechLore - January 13, 2005
- Question: My wife has a Sylvania Mp3 player when I download songs it only plays about ten seconds of each song. I'm using windows media player 10. please help -submitted by maf Answer: Many audio products have playback feature known as "intro/scan" m...
- Ask The Experts: MP3s Have Breaking-Up Sounds When Played
- TechLore - January 5, 2005
- Question: I have a bunch of MP3's that, not so long ago, started playing with (bad) sound. The sound is similar to shaking a radio real hard while it is playing. Real shaky, breaking up sounds. I thought it might be my sound card, so I bought a new o...
- Ask the Experts: Play All Music on iPod at the Same Volume
- TechLore - January 4, 2005
- On an Apple iPod, is there a way to set the volume so that every song plays at the same volume level? Seems like burned CD's vs. Downloads can play at much different volume levels.
- How to Love Your Music Even More - Just Add the Metadata
- TechLore - January 4, 2005
- Anyone who has ripped a CD in the last year or so has no doubt been pleasantly surprised by the artist and album information that is now available online. The popular PC music management programs like MusicMatch, iTunes, and Windows Media Player...
- Ask The Experts: Using an AudioKey MP3 Player on Windows 98
- TechLore - December 30, 2004
- Question i brought my daughter an mp3 player audiokey 128mb and cannot find out how to download the music from cd to the mp3 player i have taken it back to dixons and they showed me but they have got windows xp and i have got microsoft 98 second edit...
- Understanding Digital Music Formats
- TechLore - December 29, 2004
- Since the introduction of the Compact Disc in the 1980's, digitally encoded audio has become the most popular method of playing audio in history. Today, a new evolution in audio is quickly changing the way the world buys, distributes, and listens to ...
- Ask The Experts: Disc Stuck in Koss DVD Player
- TechLore - December 28, 2004
- Question: New Koss dvd player; Model KD385. I possibly inserted a previously played CD-R wrong (which played great and ejected fine)and now it will not open and allow access to CD-R. Tv screen says, " Play is unavailable because no disc is loaded. Pl...
- How Much Storage Do I Need for a Portable MP3 Player?
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- Are you thinking about buying an MP3 player but confused about how much storage you need for your songs? Or have you run out of storage and need to buy more but don't know how much? Understanding digital memory and the basics of MP3s is essential bef...