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Digital Audio—Awesome
Audio Enhancements with
the Power of the PC
Rock, relax and dance with digital audio

More than ever before, PC users can enjoy their favorite music anytime,

anywhere, in any combination they choose—because turning music

tracks into MP3s just got easy.

With digital audio, music fans can mix their favorite songs into high-

quality custom audio compilations, listen to hours of their favorite music

commercial-free and even become a DJ, seamlessly dubbing multiple

tracks into a nonstop mix.

The easy, speedy step-by-step process

Copying tracks off CDs and converting
them to MP3s can be a time-
consuming process that ties
up a PC’s resources. But
since the Intel® Pentium® 4
processor is designed to let
other applications be used
simultaneously, users can
surf the Internet, play a video
game or check e-mail while creating
custom playlists.

Getting digitized.1 Here’s how to take control of a CD

collection, discover new musical directions and listen to
customized CDs anytime.

• Just pop a blank CD into a CD/RW (read and write) drive and use any conversion software
available. Users can convert an entire CD collection to their own personal digital music library in
MP3 format. Select specific songs to be copied with easy-to-use software. That’s all it takes to
gain nonstop music at one’s fingertips.

• Music can be organized by artist, title or genre for a compilation of soulful ballads, high-energy
rock or gentle classics. Software run on a Pentium 4 processor-based PC makes it easy to create
multiple playlists that fit virtually any musical mood.

• Send custom-compiled playlists to stereo systems throughout the home. Use the PC to output
the music and distribute the tunes using MP3 audio compression technology.
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Sampling new music. With thousands of songs waiting to be Save time when converting .wav files to MP3
heard, digitized audio lets hundreds of online radio stations,
playing all types of music, transmit streaming audio over the e-Jay* MP3 Plus 1.3

Internet directly to the PC—many commercial-free.

Pentium 4
processor 2:46
31%3
Always knowing the tune. With streaming digital audio, music 1.70 GHz Faster
lovers will no longer be disappointed when a DJ doesn’t reveal Pentium 4
processor 3:01
the name of the song they’re hearing. Online radio stations 1.50 GHz
Pentium 4
clearly display the name of the artist and the song, allowing processor 3:12
1.40 GHz
listeners to order the CD online.
Pentium 4
processor 3:26
Burning CDs—even from LPs! Once they convert the tracks 1.30 GHz
Pentium® III
to MP3s and stock their digital library, users can play MP3s processor 3:37
1B GHz
through their PC, download them to a digital audio player and
make their own custom CDs with a CD burner. minutes 0 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00
A shorter bar is faster
Even old vinyl records can be restored and converted to
MP3s. With many available software programs, users can
take advantage of the power of the Pentium® 4 processor
to apply cleaning filters to any track. With just a few clicks, “...moving from the Pentium® III to the Pentium 4
scratches, pops and hums can be removed—giving new life provides a large performance increase for
to old favorites. MP3 encoding.” 4

Interesting Facts:
• 37% of Internet users or 35 million Americans have
listened to music online.2

• 22% of Internet users or about 21 million Americans

have downloaded music online.2

1 Intel does not promote the unauthorized use and exchange of copyrighted materials.
2 Source: The Pew Internet & American Life Project’s Online Music Report, 9/00.
3 Source: Intel. Configuration: Pentium® III processor–Intel® Desktop Board D815EA, 128 MB PC133 CL2 SDRAM. Pentium® 4 processor–Production Intel®
Desktop Board D850GB, 128 MB PC800 RDRAM*. Creative* 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro* 2 with nVidia* GeForce*2 GTS, IBM* DTLA-307030 ATA-100 hard drive,
nVidia* Detonator* 3 v6.31 graphics driver, Intel® Ultra ATA Storage Driver v6.03, Intel® chipset INF file v2.60.001, DirectX* 8.0, Microsoft* Windows* Millennium,
eJay* MP3 Plus 1.3.
4 Source: SharkyExtreme, 11/00. http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/guides/pentium4
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