Recently, I was successful in teaching myself to rip music from CDs using Windows Media Player, which I'm glad to have done even though I intend to primarily use CDex for this purpose. Always good to know more than one way to do something.
But I'm not having such success learning the burn procedure with WMP, which I'd hoped to do in order to avoid having to pay for a commercial application, considering how seldom I'm bound to use it. I'm also hoping to be able to use WMP for making backup CDs of data files periodically, and I'm afraid, from my explorations, that this will be as confusing with WMP as the music burning function seems) here's my main question on the music burning procedure: I understand from the help files instructions that you're supposed to designate the files to be burned by choosing them from the Library and/or playlists. Now, I don't know anything about the, nor do I use playlists to orchestrate my occasional PC audio experiences; I just find the track I want to hear in Windows Explorer, press Enter on it, and WMP plays it. I don't set up whole sequences of tracks to play. So I'm completely out of it about this Library and playlist stuff. I kept tabbing around and hitting Enter now and then, and finally found a list of all my audio files. But they're just a long list, not divided into the various albums they're in, as they're arranged on my hard drive under My Music. Is this the Library? All I want to do is burn a CD using all the tracks from that same CD as I've ripped it. I don't want to create mixes or any of that. If I still could see better, maybe I'd get into it, the way I once made mix tapes now and then on cassette. But I don't really care. I just want to find the tracks from one CD, load them into whatever list you're supposed to load them into, hit a Burn button, and made a new CD. I'm sorry to be so verbose, but not feeling well today and it's hard to concentrate. If anyone reading this realizes that I'm just not one of the talented blind computer people who can make sense of this function in WMP, and I ought to buy one of the commercial programs that work more simply, I'll consider the advice seriously. I just wanted to give this a try, since I was able to figure out the rip function, although I hate all that tabbing around to so many controls I have no idea the function of in this context. Thanks. P.S. As I say, I'm willing to bite the bullet and buy a program, but I was hoping not to have to spend as much as $100 for the new Nero release, and it seems the blind-popular Roxio Easy CD Creator has been superseded by Easy Media Creator 7, and I've tried the relatively simply and accessible Premier CD Creator program but had terrible problems with it, problems I believe I described here recently, and the Premier engineers won't get back to me about these issues (a ghostly Black Sabbath CD permanently loaded into the Audio Brabber function, and the program hanging when I press Burn in the burn program while accidentally not managing to get any files into the list. These are deal-breaker problems. Anyway, I'm trying. Help will be appreciated. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.8 - Release Date: 5/10/2005 _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
