| Introduction | 1 |
| Part I | What's MP3 and How Do I Use It? | 7 |
| Chapter 1 | Just Get Me Going! | 9 |
| Chapter 2 | Turning Your Computer into an MP3 Machine | 19 |
| Part II | Downloading and Playing MP3 Files from the Internet | 39 |
| Chapter 3 | Finding the Best Free MP3 Files | 41 |
| Chapter 4 | Downloading MP3 Files from the Internet | 55 |
| Chapter 5 | Swapping or Swiping: Napster, Napigator, Gnutella, BearShare, and Aimster | 77 |
| Chapter 6 | Playing MP3 Files on Your Computer and Home Stereo | 97 |
| Chapter 7 | Choosing and Using MP3 Players | 121 |
| Chapter 8 | Listening To or Setting Up an MP3 Radio Station | 139 |
| Part III | Creating Your Own MP3 Files | 159 |
| Chapter 9 | Ripping Songs from a CD, Album, TV, Radio, Tape, or Microphone | 161 |
| Chapter 10 | Completing the MP3 File with an Encoder | 175 |
| Chapter 11 | MusicMatch's All-in-One Software: From CD to MP3 | 183 |
| Chapter 12 | Saving MP3 Songs on a CD | 203 |
| Part IV | MP3s for the Musician | 209 |
| Chapter 13 | Why Bother with MP3s? | 211 |
| Chapter 14 | Composing Songs for MP3 | 221 |
| Chapter 15 | Musician's Guide to Turning Songs into MP3s | 235 |
| Chapter 16 | Making Money from Your MP3s | 245 |
| Part V | The Part of Tens | 265 |
| Chapter 17 | The Ten Best MP3 Sites | 267 |
| Chapter 18 | Ten Ways MP3 Helps Musicians | 275 |
| Chapter 19 | The Ten Most Useful MP3 Utilities | 279 |
| Chapter 20 | Ten Things to Know about Copyrights | 283 |
| Chapter 21 | (Almost) Ten Rumors about MP3 | 287 |
| Chapter 22 | Ten Quick Ways to Use MP3 | 293 |
| Part VI | Appendixes | 297 |
| Appendix A | About the CD | 299 |
| Appendix B | Glossary | 317 |
| Index | 323 |
| Hungry Minds, Inc. End-User License Agreement | 339 |
| Installation Instructions | 341 |
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