Was this in reference to literal audio archives? If so, I don't see any cons beside possible copyright infringement.
If you're talking about the codecs themselves, then I can do that.
<span>Pros:
</span>- Widespread acceptance. Supported in nearly all hardware devices, and continually adopted by newer ones.
- Faster decoding. Much more so than FLAC, Vorbis, etc.
- Relaxed licensing schedule.
<span>Cons:
</span><span>
</span>- Lower quality and efficiency than most modern codecs. (To be fair, never really noticed this one).
- Sometimes the maximum bitrate isn't enough.
- Pretty much void/unusable for high definition audio (higher than <span>48kHz).</span>
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1) You need to allow the Bios to detect it by changing Input devices in the Bios.
2) Allow Windows to install driver automatically, and your good to go. I have installed an second harddrive to my PC before.