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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (25580)	2/11/2002 8:17:40 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 110652

That program was not included with my installation software--pretty sure it is older software and that the PMP3000 is a couple years old, but thank you. In any event, RealJukeBox and the Audible software are not bad--I was just surprised that Win Me itself didn't add a device icon and such. And it may turn out that drag and drop is only useful during the earliest part of the learning curve. I see that RealJukeBox and WMP are designed with the assumption that you will record a CD...and then presumably copy tracks to your library, or to a device--batch style. And you use WMP to organize your collection, rather than set up folders within folders etc. --Naturally when you are first starting out, you mainly just want to test the damn thing. So you search for .wma and .mp3 files, and you expect to be able to send them easily to the device under Windows, and that is what I wasn't able to do. But, it does not matter too much. Since I did find a few files, and they were easy to transfer with RealJukeBox--I may use that and stop using WMP 7 alltogether..."Upgrade to RealOne" popups notwithstanding. fwiw... I've not been able to "rip" any music... my CDrom is old, and this is a PII233. JukeBox and WMP both seem to record audio tracks--but the rusulting MP3's (even though they are 3-5megs in size) contain no music. My CDrom does not support digital transfer, and the CDrom does a lot of stuttering during the process...so I may have some hardware problems. Too bad they shut down that Napster thing, I wouldn't have to figure out how to rip my own CDs!