can storing a lot of music in my computer slow it down??
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That may be the reason, but defragmenting the hard drive will help.\n\nRight click on hard drive > Go to Tools tab > click on the Defragment Button\n\nIt may take a while with a large hard drive
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it has something to do with folders-or you could just leave the songs as mp3's and burn them on to a disc that way
317340
total mess\n\nwith over 10 drives, total mess(not counting virtual drives)\nmy music drive (40 Gb) has 11 GB of music with almos tno folders\nanywere you look, you will find parts of downloads lost files etc\n8 gb files taking space
310703
If your computer has a CD burner, make a CD of the music. Make sure that you make a data CD, not a music CD. data CDs can carry up to 800 MB of music (usually) while music CDs hold a maximum of 20 (if you're lucky).\nOtherwise MP3 players or flash drives are a good choice too.
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Run a virus check.\nDefrag your hardrive.\n\nHoly crap!  Don't do what IOwnYou said!  If you format your hard drive, you will lose EVERYTHING!  \n\nTo defrag, right click on your hard drive.  Click on the tools tab, and then Defragment.  \n\nAlso, if you have a music file share program (like Morpheus and Kazaa) it will really slow your computer down.  All the music you download from them gets stored in a special file that everyone else in the world can access through your computer.  What to do to avoid this is move the files you download from that folder to a different one not associated with the program.  \nHope this helps.
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I go for the highest rate my applications and hard-drive will allow. I think most of my mp3's are ripped at 228. I do notice quite a difference when I then burn them to a CD for back-up.
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Yes u can..\n\ndeleting Temp(temporary) files is very safe.\nU can delete those directly or DISK CLEANUP...\nBy deleting temp files, it can even make ur system work a little faster....
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Burn them to a CD using the highest level of fidelity.  Then rip the songs from the CD to MP3 format. \n\nVoila.  No more file protection, minimal data loss.
205898
Ouch, get a DVD burner (Dual Layer).  Cd's only store less than 1gb.  That would leave you making 100 cd's for 70gb of data.
141895
yes! windows media player 10 has that feature to speed up or slow down the rate at which song is played
666984
it wont harm it, but depending on what kind of computer you have/how old it is and what operating system you have, it could get slow to operate unless you restart it every once in awhile to clear its temporary memory, or it could get very warm/overheat. you probably wont have a problem though. maybe just restart it once a week or once every few days or so, to keep it running well.
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Yea, make sure you hava a data plan, but you will need to upload the music files to a privite server (e.g. Geocities) Since thas what i do for Pictures,music,ringtones.
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I don't know if this will do it but a program called the godfater is very powerful when it comes to managing mp3's
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1. You probably have too much crap running in the background for one thing. Check to see whats running in startup. Most people dont understand that having these things run eats up valuable ram! If you have things running you dont use then shut them off! The more ram you have available the faster your system will run. \n2. You may be one of the many users who insist on downloading free music. Believe me nothing is free! I have found , bearshare, kazaa, limewire, etc. all are infested with adware, spyware, trojans, hijackers, and viruses! Anyone who tells you they arent is an absolute idiot!\n3. Online games, porn sites, gambling sites, etc are also infected with this crap! \nDownload yahoo antispy and run it. I am betting you find tons of this crap! Once your computer is back to par dont go back to these sites!
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well i am no specialist but you could transfer all the music to a couple of cds and tale it off of your computer and it should clear it up
973531
if you want that file to grt less space on your HDD from lets say 4 MB to 2 MB you can lower its quality but if you want to make it shorter , and this makes me think of the time it plays you can use an audio editor http://audacity.sourceforge.net/  , this one is free and safe
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Like any P2P program, it does slow down your computer and there is a good chance you will catch a virus. Last year got a really bad virus (a combination of viruses actually) from a song I downloaded on Limewire. It was so bad that, after spending weeks trying to fix it myself and have others fix it, I had to get a new computer. \n\nI use iTunes for downloading music now. It's worth the lousy dollar per song to be able to keep my computer.