I don't mean to sound ignorant, but could someone explain to me what a MP3 player is, and how it works?

Answer 1

A MP3 is just the fancy computer name for an audio file. You can download MP3s off the Internet, some programs let you do that for free illegally (Limewire being the most popular), and some you pay for (iTunes). There are other fancy names for audio files such as AAC and WMA, so when you see those just know there are different formats but they are all audio files.

An MP3 player is a portable music device that lets you listen to those files on the go. Usually how it works is you download the music MP3 files off of the internet, then depending on which brand of MP3 player you have, a program will come with the player and allows you to transfer the files from your computer onto the MP3 player.

Once your music is on the player, it works in pretty much the same way a portable CD player would work. You can scroll through songs and play the ones you like. An advantage MP3 players have is they can hold MANY more songs then your cd can (the 60gb iPod can hold around 10000 songs). With the more expensive MP3 players like an iPod, you have a screen where you can scroll through the songs and play them in whatever order you want. With the program iTunes, you can add information such as track name, artist name, and album so when you transfer the MP3 files to your MP3 player then you can see the audio track's information.

Hope I helped!

Answer 2

A MP3 Player is an electronic device that plays music. It doesn't use a cd or tape. The music is transfered from a computer to a chip in the mp3 player. Once the music is on the mp3 player, you can connect the player thru a set of speakerrs, an existing stereo system or even a car stereo. You can buy a card at a store, go on line and buy songs and then download them into your mp3 player. You can also go to free sites like limewire and download music from their site that people have in their computer. This is called file sharing.

Answer 3

Certainly, instead of using cds to play your music, you download or put music straight to your player. Thus it is a mp3 player because you can put any song you want and change the music at your will. Much better being stuck with the same cd and can't change the song list on it.

Answer 4

MP3's(music player 3) is like the upgrade from a disc walkman.Evolution of music:
casette then came......
cd's finally
ipods

mp3's are listening devices that you can listen music to but without the bulk

Answer 5

It's like a tiny little hand held computer/music player. You go to a website that allows you to download songs (we use URGE and it's pretty inexpensive and reliable). Then you hook your MP3 player up to your PC with the cord that came with it. You have to have a media player on your PC to download the songs to (I use Windows Media--it is very user friendly). After downloading songs from the website into your PC's media player you go to your media center and hit the 'sync' button. Your computer then sync's up your MP3 player with the songs you have downloaded into your media center.

Hope that all made sense!

Answer 6

its depends on the music player on the featues it has. but a basic mp3 player plays a music file called "mp3's" that you download off the internet.

Answer 7

alright basically u can copy ur mp3 files onto a portable player (smaller and easier to handle than a CD player) and listen to it anywhere. They can hold anywhere from 512mb up to 60GB, a lot more than one CD.

Answer 8

a MP3 stands for music player 3 and u download music and u listen to it........

Answer 9

it is a device that holds anywhere from 1 song to thousands of songs/movies/etc, a good example is an IPOD by Apple.. you put songs on there by transfering them from your computer.

check it out....

http://www.apple.com/itunes/