JUST a year ago, writing an article about MP3 meant going into elaborate detail in defining the technology. AdvertisementAs a musical format, the Internet is a much cooler medium.

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It enables users to have multiple sound systems, to watch visual displays synchronized to the music, to talk to other people listening to the same Internet radio station, to make compilations of favorite songs with a few mouse clicks, to E-mail a song to a disk jockey to play, and to put a CD into a computer and, with the click of a button, access digital liner notes. The list could go on and on, and this is only the beginning of the medium's evolution. With those who originally created much of these capabilities falling prey to new industry regulations, lawsuits and takeovers, it may also be the medium's creative summit as well. With faster and better-sounding alternatives already available or in development, there is little doubt that MP3 - developed by a multinational committee as an open standard free to anyone - is a transitional format. But it is MP3 that has the versatility and added functions that make it more forward-looking than its more proprietary corporate rivals developed by Real Networks, Liquid Audio, Microsoft, AT&T and Lucent.Bypassing the financial implications, the biggest change on-line music distribution brings to those who make music is that it frees them from the constraints of a platter, disk or cassette that holds limited information and costs money and time to manufacture and ship. A new studio recording could be a 3-minute song or a 24-hour music cycle intended to accompany the listener throughout an entire day. The decisions made by bands in the on-line world no longer involve sequencing 70 minutes of songs, but determining at what rate new music should be released to fans and in what amount.This scenario is slightly futuristic, because the medium of the Internet won't change the message of the music until it becomes the dominant form of distributing music (or at least a new market on par with record stores).

For now we will concentrate on the present, on the hunter-gatherer experience of using the Internet and computer as record store, record album and stereo.TO do this, it's best to walk you through the process. So, if you are reading this and you own a PC with a halfway decent Internet connection, follow the instructions below and within an hour or two you will have a completely free state-of-the-art Internet stereo system that might explain what an MP3 player's got that a CD player doesn't.To begin with, you need software to play MP3's on your PC.

I'd suggest downloading two software players, Winamp (www.winamp.com) and Sonique (www.sonique.com). The Winamp is the most commonly used MP3 player, and many of the most interesting free MP3 programs on the Internet are only compatible with Winamp; Sonique is more self-contained, easier to operate and beautifully designed in adjustable sizes. Similar to a stereo, in addition to playing songs, both offer a wide-band graphic equalizer, the shuffle capabilities of a CD player, VU meters and spectrum analyzers, volume and balance controls, and, in the case of Sonique, pitch control so that you can change the speed of the song being played. Next, you'll want to download what are called skins and plug-ins, most of them created not by entrepreneurs but by random computer users as young as 11 years old. Skins are faceplates that cover your MP3 player like masks, creating a visual appearance of your choice. There are hundreds to choose from, and you can switch between them as often as you want: you can have a Star Wars MP3 player, a Britney Spears one, a wooden-looking stereo, a high-tech interface, or you can scan your favorite image, design a skin yourself and E-mail it to Winamp or Sonique for other MP3 users to download.Plug-ins are more exciting supplemental programs, ways to personalize and soup up your MP3 player.

The best of these allow you to operate your Winamp with a remote control, add effects like reverb to the music, search for and display song lyrics as you listen, or match the beats on two different MP3 files and mix them together like a D.J.Then there are the visual plug-ins, the Internet equivalent of cover art. These are programs in which waves, fractals, wallpaper patterns, animated characters and all kinds of images dance and morph on your computer screen in response to the rhythm, amplitude and frequencies of a song as it's being played. AdvertisementOnce you have a fully loaded MP3 player brimming with skins and plug-ins, you'll need music. A number of search engines capable of scouring the Web for MP3 files have been built. These include mp3.lycos.com, www.audiofind.com, www.audioseek.com or the mega-search engine www.palavista.com, which tend not to differentiate between legitimate sites and fly-by-night pirates and thus often lead to dead ends.For beginners, it's better to start at www.scour.net or the newer www.listen.com, both of which have limited but very reliable archives of legal music. If you can't find what you're looking for at any of these sites, you can always go to the newsgroup alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.requests and post a message naming the album or song you're looking for and chances are someone will post it for you within a few days.Often an easier alternative to downloading music is streaming music, or listening to music live in real time.

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This is the province of Internet radio stations, which, in a medium as democratic as the Web, are about as numerous as Internet radio listeners. (All you have to do to start broadcasting is download a special Winamp plug-in from www.shoutcast.com). There are a number of good sites housing hundreds of radio stations, chief among them www.shoutcast.com and icecast.linuxpower.org.But to better appreciate the advantage Internet radio has over college radio stations, go to www.mp3spy.com and download the program MP3spy. Once loaded, MP3spy will arrange Internet radio stations by genre and let you know what song is playing, how many people are listening and the quality of the transmission. While listening, not only can you talk with other listeners and the D.J., but you can also send the disk jockey songs to play.To send your favorite songs to a D.J., you'll need the next component of your Internet stereo system: the 'record' button, also known as the CD ripper, which enables you to turn CD's (or records or cassettes or random noise recorded into a microphone) into MP3 files. The best of these also serve as CD players and jukeboxes, searching the Web as soon as you insert a CD and letting you know the track sequence and recording notes. Though there are many of these programs, one favorite is Musicmatch 4.0 (at www.musicmatch.com).

Most users prefer to make MP3 files from Real Audio's very quick, versatile and efficient Real Jukebox. But one problem with Real Audio software is that it is a bully, always trying to kick all other music software off your desktop and then pop up at the ready whenever your computer starts to do anything vaguely musical.So, with your MP3 player, your skins and plug-ins, your CD ripper and your Internet radio connections, what have you learned? Beside the fact that integrating the pieces of your MP3 software and developing a system for downloading music and maintaining a playlist can be a nuisance akin to finding the jewel boxes for the disks in a 100-CD changer, you've learned that there is a whole universe that already exists on line built around the MP3.

It is not a world of pirated music, as the record industry would have you believe, but one in which you can choose and design the look and feel of your music player, the lengths and types of compilations you want to make for yourself, and the interactive visuals that accompany the sound. After all, the main difference between the MP3 and the CD is not that the music is on line instead of in stores, it's that the MP3 is not packaged, perfected and made easy to use by an industry before being given to consumers.

The technology is open-ended and evolving, which means that the message is that the medium is putty and, for now, as a listener you can mold it in any way you want.

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