Introduction

Before Windows XP, Windows wasn't thought of as being particularly friendly to digital media to using and creating videos, music, and graphics files. But Windows XP is the most media-friendly version of Windows yet released, and so a variety of multimedia is now easily available to Windows users. It includes a variety of built-in tools, such as Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker.

In this chapter, you'll find recipes for handling a variety of media everything from copying digital music to your PC, to making music CDs, recording video, making DVDs, and handling and converting graphics.