Meditative Recordings

Those of you who were at Cityside today may remember me suggesting that a good way to start working towards incorporating spiritual practices into our lives would be to have short meditative and liturgical recordings that we could play in the car, while washing the dishes, cleaning the house, having a walk or whatever.

As a follow-up to that suggestion I have made a recording of my "non-Mary-hailing" rosary available for download - it's linked from that page, which also has the words and a full explanation, or here is a direct link to just the recording. It's 4.5MB, MP3 format (so should play in most portable digital music players and also on many newer CD players and DVD players). Runs about 4 minutes 45 seconds.

If you have an older CD player that doesn't play MP3s, but you do have a CD burner on your computer or a friend's, you can convert it to an ordinary audio CD track. I recommend using the free software CD Burner XP Pro (assuming you have Windows; Macs will have something built in that does this, I'm sure).

Go to their Downloads page, click the Latest Version link and click the CDBurnerXP.se link. Clicking that should start downloading a ZIP file.

Unzip the file (if you don't have software for this, try 7-Zip). Double-click the setup.exe file and follow the instructions.

Start up CD Burner XP Pro and choose the option to burn an audio CD.

Find the file where you have saved it on your computer (it's called mix1.mp3). Click it once, and click the Add button in the middle of the screen.

Then select Disc -> Write disc from the menu (making sure you have a blank disk in your CD writer, of course).

Enjoy!