Hi Trace. Here are some notes on how to set up media player 10 to rip CD's to your hard drive. You can change your settings so that media player will automatically rip the CD when you close the drawer and eject it when finished so this is the quickest way to rip a large number of CD's. I'll also post some notes on CDEX in case you prefer to use that program.
1. Start windows media player. 2. Press alt and T to open the tools menu. 3. Use the up arrow to find the options menu and press enter. 4. You'll now be in the player tab. Press shift & tab to move up to the list of tabs and then right arrow to locate the ripping tab. 5. Tabbing once will land you on the change button. Pressing spacebar or enter will open a dialogue that will allow you to change where you rip your music to. Initially this will be set to my music in the my documents folder. 6. Pressing tab again will land you on the file name button. This is where you can specify how you want your ripped music files to be named. The default is that you'll get a folder with the artist name and inside there a folder with the album name. Opening the album folder will reveal the tracks in the format track number dash track title. 7. Pressing tab again will land you in a combo box where you can choose the format of your ripped music. The choices are MP3, windows media audio, WAV or windows media audio lossless. 8. Pressing tab again will land you on a button where you can go and learn a little more about MP3 and WMA formats. 9. Pressing tab again will land you on the copy protect checkbox. Make sure this is unchecked otherwise you'll start having problems moving your music around from player to player. 10. The next checkbox is rip music when CD is inserted. This is very useful if you want to rip a number of CD's at a time. If you have media player started and this is checked, when you close your CD drawer with a CD inserted, it will be automatically ripped. 11. The following checkbox is eject CD when ripping is complete. This again is useful with the above checkbox so that you can keep feeding CD's into the computer and have them ejected to take out and put the next CD in. 12. Tabbing again will land you on a compare music formats. This is another informational option to go and find out more about formats and listen to some samples that demonstrate the differences in format. 13. Now you've probably noticed that I've missed a combo box while describing this. It's only seen if you have the MP3 or windows media audio format chosen and it let's you choose the quality of your ripped music. It doesn't show if you choose WAV or windows media audio lossless as these are always ripped at 100% quality. If you do want to use MP3 or WMA at lower bit rates, you can use the arrow keys to choose the quality. If you use your JAWS cursor each time you change the setting you'll see some extra information about the quality you've chosen. 14. When you've made all your changes tab to the OK button and press enter to save them. They'll remain as your default settings. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dancing Queen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:40 PM Subject: Re: Copying CD's > OK, could you give me some instructions please? > > Sorry for the delay, been mad around here lately. > > thanks > > Trace > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:31 PM > Subject: Re: Copying CD's > > > > Hi Trace. > > > > It would be best for you to rip your CD's to your hard drive and then > > create > > your compilation in the same way as you did for those tracks you > > downloaded. > > You can use media player, CDEX or a few other rippers to do this and > > you'll > > need to choose a format you're happy with. I'd recommend ripping to a > > lossless format such as WMA lossless. You can use media player to rip > > your > > CD's to this format. > > > > Regards. > > > > Kevin > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dancing Queen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 3:44 PM > > Subject: Copying CD's > > > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I've now managed to make a compilation CD from tracks downloaded from the > >> net, all in mp3 format. > >> > >> I have a large cd collection, how do I go about copying whole albums or > >> various tracks from an existing cd on to a blank cd, to make my own > >> compilation for example? > >> > >> i use Nero 6 > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Trace > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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] > >> > >> This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. 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