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A proper living room PCwhat we'll officially call a Media Center PCoffers a combination of features, functionality, and form factor that is subtly different from that found on a traditional desktop PC. It's Not for Writing Memos or Crunching Numbers... First, you have to recognize that how you use your Media Center PC will be quite different from how you use your desktop PC. A desktop PC is perfect for typical office work; a living room PC is more of a home entertainment device. Although you can perform office tasks on a Media Center PC (and use a desktop PC for home entertainment purposes), each type of PC is purpose-built for different purposes.
Listening to FM Radio In addition to Internet radio, some (but not all) Media Center PCs come with built-in FM tuners. 6. Again, the more music programming, the merrier. 6. Listening to FM radio in Windows Media Center. [View full size image] Burning Your Own Custom CDs When you have your entire music collection stored in digital format on your Media Center PC, you have lots of options available to you. You can listen to your music one CD at a time. You can listen to all the music recorded by a specific performer.
Let's look at audio quality first. When you rip CDs in Windows Media Center, you're actually using Windows Media Player (WMP) to do the ripping, in the background. WMP can copy files to a number of different file formats, and by default uses Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. WMA is an okay format, similar in many ways to the industry-standard MP3 format. What WMA and MP3 have in common is that they compress the original music to save file space; the sound quality is lowered to create smaller files.