New Book Formats: So Many Formats and So Little Budget!

What is DRM? and What is MP3? and How does MP3 work?

2011-04-27T09:16:00.000-04:00

Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices...

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of data compression. (approx. 1/12 the size of a traditional wave format). It is the standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group as part of its MPEG-1 standard. The group was formed by several teams of engineers in 1991.

Managing Audio-books on a small capacity iPod

2010-03-11T14:21:00.006-05:00

I have a collection of audiobooks — purchased on CDs and downloaded from Audible and the iTunes Store — that runs to more than 30 gigabytes. I also have a couple gigs of podcasts, and a few hundred CDs worth of music. In all, my iTunes library runs to almost 50 gigs, in terms of the disk space it requires to store it.
Holding all of that on a full-size hard disk-based iPod, with capacities up to 160 gigabytes, would be no problem. But I personally choose to carry an iPhone, and for working out I use (and recommend) an iPod nano. Both of these devices have far smaller capacities, holding a maximum of 8 gigs of content. That requires careful management of what goes onto my iPod / iPhone, and I’ve developed a few tricks to make it relatively easy. Continued