The document provides an overview of digital media, including how it is created, obtained, stored, and played. It discusses ripping CDs and DVDs to create digital files, obtaining content through services like iTunes and podcasts, storing files on devices like hard drives and flash drives, and playing media on computers, portable devices, and home entertainment systems. Common file formats and devices are also mentioned.

1. Digital Media Bryan Sippel Friday, February 5, 2010

2. Agenda Create How is digital media created? Obtain How can you get it? Storage Where do you put it? How do you organize it? Play What do you play it on? Create Obtain Storage Play

3. Prerequisites Basic knowledge of how to use a computer Internet, keyboard, and mouse Home high speed Internet is ideal but not necessary Email address Comfort with accessing and sending email

4. Goals Know your options Understand what is out there, both free and fee content Key terms Be able to explain, for example, the terms “mp3” and “podcasts” Understand advantages and disadvantages iTunes vs. Rhapsody/Zune/Winamp/Songbird, AAC vs. WMA Create Obtain Storage Play

5. Who am I? Where I have lived: England (where I was born), Oakville (outside of Toronto), Montreal, and Kingston Completed my BAH and MSc at Queen’s Work with university information systems: the computer systems that manage student data (e.g. course registration)

6. Getting married in September 2010 Love technology Sports: Montreal Canadiens fan

7. 50 years in 5 min

8. 1960 - 1969 Music: Hey Jude by The Beatles, Tossin’ and Turnin’ by Bobby Lewis Movies: Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Sound of Music (1965), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Fig. 21. Electrohome Cascade 1 M console stereo (830346), what Mom and Dad listened to in the 1960s.(CSTM) Fig. 22. Cool component stereo system, ca 1962: electronics by Leak (840799), speakers by Wharfedale (840800).(CSTM)

9. 1970 - 1979 Music: Saturday Night Fever by the Bee Gees, American Pie by Don McLean Movies: The Godfather (1970), Jaws (1975), Rocky (1976) Betamax (Beta) developed by Sony (1975) Video Home System (VHS) The other half of the Betamax vs. VHS war

10. 1980 - 1989 Music: Every Breath You Take by The Police, Jump by Van Halen Movies: ET (1982), Top Gun (1986), Batman (1989) Fig. 29. Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (820114), 1980s. (CSTM) World’s first commercially released CD player (1982)

11. 1990 - 1999 Music: … But Seriously by Phil Collins, Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette Movies: Home Alone (1990), Jurassic Park (1993), Forrest Gump (1994) Diamond Rio Second mp3 player (1998) DVD developed and invented by Sony, Panasonic, and Samsung (1995)

12. 2000 - Present Music: Silver Side Up by Nickelback and Fearless by Taylor Swift Movies: Spider-Man (2002), The Dark Knight (2008), Avatar (2009)

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14. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/mp34.htm Create Obtain Storage Play

15. Ripping a CD or DVD… Process of copying audio or video to a hard disk Create Obtain Storage Play

16. … other methods Create Obtain Storage Play

17. Private use of the person who makes the copy Music industry and levy on blank audio media The Law says… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_copyright_law#Music_Recordings Michael Giest http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ Create Obtain Storage Play

18. Create your own video… … using most digital cameras. Create Obtain Storage Play

19. Compression Requires an encoding scheme Quality typically decreases as compression increases e.g. DVD video vs. YouTube video Create Obtain Storage Play

20. Formats .mp3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 a standard method of compressing digital audio .m4a AAC Advanced Audio Coding higher quality .WMA Windows Media Audio (Windows Media Video) Microsoft proprietary technology .mpg MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) a standard video compression format .avi Audio Video Interleave a video format originally created by Microsoft .mov Apple Quicktime multimedia format Create Obtain Storage Play

21. But where does it actually go? Digital media files will be stored in a folder on your computer Create Obtain Storage Play

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24. Audiobook FREE: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson Click the link above to download the audiobook for free Create Obtain Storage Play

25. Podcasts Digital media files released episodically Both video and audio formats Huge range of topics TEDTalks, Laugh Out Loud from CBC Radio, New Yorker: Fiction, The Moth Podcast Create Obtain Storage Play

26. DRM Digital Rights Management access control inhibits of digital content that were not desired or foreseen by the content provider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management Create Obtain Storage Play

27. iTunes www.apple.ca/itunes Create Obtain Storage Play

28. Step by Step Install of iTunes 9 www.apple.ca/itunes PC running Windows XP Please note screenshots may be slightly different for other Windows versions (e.g. Vista or Windows 7) or operating systems (e.g. Mac OS X) Create Obtain Storage Play

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42. Storage Types CD or DVD Hard Drive Flash Memory Create Obtain Store Play

43. * Operating system Compression allows… Create Obtain Store Play Capacity Songs CDs (12 songs/CD) 2 GB 500 songs 41 4 GB 1000 songs 83 8 GB 1750 songs* 145 16 GB 4000 songs 333 128 GB 40000 songs 3333

44. 3-2-1 Backup Strategy Three copies Two different media (e.g. flash drive and hard disk) One copy offsite Create Obtain Store Play

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46. Play your digital media… … on a computer (e.g. iTunes) … on a portable device (e.g. iPod or Zune) … on a home entertainment system (e.g. media centre: connect a computer to a TV) Create Obtain Store Play

47. Apple Products Talks to you Video camera Surf the web Send/receive email View your media on your TV www.apple.ca/ipod Create Obtain Store Play

48. … lots of others Microsoft Zune Sansa Media Players http://www.zune.net/en-US/ http://www.sandisk.com/consumer-products/music-player/sansa-players Create Obtain Store Play

49. Create digital media from your current media or downloading content Store use software (e.g. iTunes) to manage and organize your digital media REMEMBER to backup your content Play digital media on your computer, portable device, and/or TV Bryan Sippel [email_address] Slides www.slideshare.com/bsippel Summary

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