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Ripping music CD

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Windows Media Player has this feature so I ripped it.....but it only ripped it to the media library, ie the files are nowhere to be seen. :boggled: I want these as .MP3 files on my PC. Help appreciated.
 
Media Player would have likely put you files in My Document\My Music but I think it defaults to make them WMAs. You can change that by opening Tools>Options and clicking Rip Music. You can change where it rips to, the naming convention, and the format.
 
I donno, wouldn't it be easier to just check the help file for Windows Media Player?

In WMP10, the help file was this
Setting options for ripping CDs
You can set the following options by using the Rip Music tab:

Change the storage location for CD tracks.
Specify whether tracks are ripped to your computer in Windows Media Audio or MP3 format.
Protect ripped tracks from illegal distribution, copying, and sharing.
Specify the sound quality of music copied in the Windows Media Audio format.
To access the Rip Music tab
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Rip Music tab.
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I have not installed WMP11, but I doubt the help file would be far from the above.
 
Can't recommend EAC highly enough, especially when combined with FLAC, but I suspect that's rather more than you need for your purposes.
 
Windows Media rips to a crappy .wma format, you don't want that. Use CDex or other CD extraction software. :)
 
Well, WMA offers better quality in less space than MP3, so I wouldnt call it 'crappy.' MP3 is of course 'the' standard, for whatever thats worth.
 
This is off the subject but it looked like there might be a few people participating in this thread that could help me out.

I decided to download music for my wife for Christmas this year.

I got it from the wal-mart which used the windows media player.

A few questions:
Should I be using some other service like itunes instead?

The title information didn't show up on the cd's i created through wmp 11. Apparently wmd doesn't support something called cd-text. Bummer since that appears to be the standard way to add names to a standard audio cd.

If I start using something like itunes am I going to be able to import the copy protected wma files download through WMP into itunes?

Does itunes support cd-text?

Is there any kind of a plug in to add support for writing cd-text files in wmp? I found a plug in that adds cd-text file read capability to wmp.

A few things I have learned that I didn't know:
1. A wma capable cd player won't play encrypted wma files.
2. It seems to be possible to rip the audio cd files that wmp created from encrypted wma files into unencrypted mp3 files. If this is this easy why are people messing with the annoying copy protection stuff.
3. So far it looks like if you want an album it's easier to just buy the friggin album, rip it to mp3 format if you want mp3 files than to mess with this download crapola.
4. It looks like downloading individual songs at .88 cents a piece is a nice way to go if you're only looking for a few songs from different albums.
 
rockoon said:
Well, WMA offers better quality in less space than MP3, so I wouldnt call it 'crappy.' MP3 is of course 'the' standard, for whatever thats worth.
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That only applies to WMA Pro, though. At 128kbps a LAME-encoded MP3 file generally sounds better than a standard WMA file.
 
Does it now? Maybe they changed it. Then again, I'm still on Win2K and refused to upgrade WMP. :D
 
Ah, I see. Version 7 has no such option, I'm pretty sure they at least had that in version 9, not sure about 8. But if what you use works no need to change. :)
 
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