This guide covers downloading and using PC-based MP3 players, purchasing and using a portable MP3 player, finding MP3 files online, figuring out what's legal and what's illegal, and making MP3 files from personal record collections. The CD-ROM contains MP3 players for hearing music through a PC, rippers for taking sound off a CD and saving it into a PC, and encoders for turning sound files into MP3. It also contains sample MP3 files from independent musicians in a variety of musical styles.