[vicsireland] Re: Ripping Cds and .cda
- From: Tony.G.Murray@xxxxxx
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:54:01 +0100
HI Again,
OK, I just noticed something; I do have Windows Media Player on this
machine. It's a prehistoric version, but hopefully most things will have
remained the same in more recent releases.
So, as far as I know, if Windows Media Player is set to be the program
which automatically plays CDs, MP3s, etc for you, there is not a lot to
ripping a CD.
Now then, if you open up Windows Media Player, select the Tools Menu with
Alt+T and arrow up once to Options, you can specify how WMP should behave
as regards CD ripping.
Go to the 'Rip Music' tab, and investigate the controls.
First thing you'll land on is a 'Change' button. Sounds like a political
slogan dunnit... Press the change button!? Anyway, by activating that you
can specify where WMP will store your ripped files on the harddrive. I
think there is a folder by default on your system called 'Music' or 'My
Music', which is probably a good place to start.
Next to that, check out the 'Filename' button. Once you activate that you
can choose how your tracks will appear. For example Artist Name followed
by Track Name, Track name only, etc. Completely optional, whatever blows
your skirt up. I go for track names only, and store them in folders
represented by the album name... within another folder for artist name,
but that's just me.
Further on down, there is a 'Format' combobox, where you can choose if you
want .mp3, .wma etc; I'd say go for mp3.
After that you will find a checkbox 'Rip CD when inserted' which is pretty
useful. In future, if this is checked, when you put a CD in the drive,
the tracks will be automagically ripped to your harddrive in mp3 format
(assuming you chose that from the combobox). Careful of this one though
if you listen to lots of new CDs on your computer, especially if you have
a small harddrive. It could fill up with songs or albums you thought were
rubbish!!!
Then you can choose to eject the CD when it's ripped, which is handy... I
guess...
Next you have an Audio Quality control. Looks like the default is 66%;
this is going back to the compression rate I was talking about, member?
Anyway, 192KBPS is about normal for mp3, I usually go for 256KBPS, but I
don't know if you can really hear a difference. The higher the
compression rate, the larger the resulting mp3 files will be.. but they
might sound a little better, I dunno. If you don't know, or don't care,
leave it at the default 66%.
Should I talk about the CDDB?
The CDDB is an Online database which holds information about most albums
which have been released. If you find a CD with no entry in the CDDB, you
can make one yourself. Anyhoo, the CDDB is accessed by Windows Media
Player every time you insert a CD in to the drive. WMP collects
information from the disk, posts it off to the CDDB, and the Artist's
name, Album's Title and Track list are all returned (along with other
stuff that isn't important for this discussion). This is how WMP seems to
'know' what the CD is. It uses this information to construct your
foldernames and filenames when ripping, as discussed above. Obviously you
have to be connected to the net for this to work, but it is so
unbelievably useful, I'm thinking of opening a shrine to the CDDB...
which, I think means 'Compact Disk Database'... I should find that out for
sure before I open the shrine. Just a tip here, you should give WMP a
minute or two after you insert your disk to access the CDDB... It can take
a little time, depending on the speed of your Internet Connection. Real
Player, CDEX, Sonic, all those things, they all use the CDDB.
Best wishes,
Tony
Tony.G.Murray@xxxxxx
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Subject: [vicsireland] Ripping Cds and .cda
Hi Vicsonians,
OK, I have been having all kinds of email issues for the past few days so
I don't know where the thread about ripping CDs and .cda files started,
ended, or uhh, existed?
Anyhoo, inserting a CD in to your drive and copying and pasting the .cda
files on to your harddrive will not let you listen to the tracks once
you've removed the CD. .cda files are representations of the tracks on
the CD; they are not Audio Files. Copying them is not 'ripping'. So, the
best thing ya can do is delete them.
What ya need to do is 'rip' the CD with something like Windows Media
Player, or Real Player, or CDEX, or one of those. You should choose from
your program to rip to .wma or .mp3, choose your compression level, and
you're in business. Far as I know, it's pretty handy to do in Windows
Media Player, but I don't have that on this machine. All I have here is
nasty work stuff.
If whoever it was has any issues with ripping their CDs, get in touch and
I'll try and figure out how to do it once I'm at home with Windows Media
Player in front of me... or CDEX, ah jasus, ya know what I mean!
Right, tea time.
Best wishes,
Tony
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