COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS THAT ALLOW USERS TO EXTRACT MUSIC DATA FROM PRE-RECORDED COMPACT DISC AND RECORD THEM ON THE HARD DISC DRIVES AND OTHER RECORDING MEDIA SUCH AS CD-R AND CD-RW, TRANSMIT MUSIC DATA VIA GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK AND RECORD THEM ON HARD DISCS DRIVES, MANAGE MUSIC DATA WHICH WILL BE PLAYED BY DEVICES SUCH AS PORTABLE MUSIC PLAYERS, PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS AND CELLULAR TELEPHONES, ENCODE MUSIC FILES TO VARIOUS TYPES OF FORMATS SUCH AS WAVE, ATRAC3 AND MP3 ...