OK, brilliant!! I take it I can rip them right to my external drive?
Oh yes!! Me going to have fun and lots of it!! Trace, with huge thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 1:59 PM Subject: Re: Copying CD's > 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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