Rip/burn CD's?

Well, having mucho time on my hands I have started on my 'copy CDs to flash drive' project. I R stoopid, I am trying to record factory burned CD's to a flash drive with no success. Twelve year old kids can do it, so how does a 56 year old idiot do it?

As I recall (been a few weeks now since I last did it), I would open the music CD in the Windows music player, and then "rip" the tracks to my flash drive or MP3 player.

Don't use WMP! It rips music to the proprietary WMA format, with copy protection as well IIRC.

Use CDex for ripping CDs to MP3s. If you're trying to rip to an .iso, use infrarecorder.

Winders media player rips to WMA by default but you can change it to rip to mp3 in your choice of quality.

I haven't used WMP for ages so my knowledge on that may be out of date.

Why in the world was it necessary to change from "copy/record" to "rip/burn"? That makes no sense at all.

ncjay wrote: Why in the world was it necessary to change from "copy/record" to "rip/burn"? That makes no sense at all.

Iffen you was a baller, you'd know why.

Who the hell knows? Anyway, the kid frogmarched me through it and I'm ripping 'Workshop of the Telescopes' as we chat. I ran the first rip/burn/whatever through the Alpine deck in the Xterra, sounds pretty damn good so far.

I didn't see any way to change the record quality, someone want to enlighten me? I really would like to keep best quality, I'm not concerned about storage space.

EDIT: Found it, it was set at 128kbps, I bumped it to 192 kbps.

For an MP3 you should rip at 320kbps, that's pretty much indistinguishable from CD quality even with a high-end sound system.

The "burn" part is, as far as I know, because you use a laser to "burn" the data onto the new CD/DVD.

"rip" is also fitting, commonly used when the copying is both from a non-file-based medium to a file and when encoding to a different format.

If you don't like "rip" you really won't like "snarf"

GameboyRMH wrote: For an MP3 you should rip at 320kbps, that's pretty much indistinguishable from CD quality even with a high-end sound system.

Windows Media Player stops at 192. What program would I need to hit that 320 kbps?

Like I said, CDex:

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

If you want truly perfect exact CD-quality audio, you can use FLAC format:

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=CDex_and_FLAC

Yeah, CDex is what you need. And like the previous threads we've had on this subject (Use The Search Box, Newbie... Oh, wait...) rip them to your hard drive, compress them to whatever you want, then copy the raw wav's over to a $100 2-3 TB USB book drive for posterity.

Yeah, we n00bs are a PITA... I have discovered how to manipulate file type and quality, finally. We r rippin' and burnin' away. I'm supposed to be out of work for another 5 weeks, I'll have to find ANOTHER project because if I rip n' burn 15 CD's a day...