Hi Paul, Thanks for the below. However, what I wanted to do was to rip the contents from an existing data cd to my hard drive ... Not burn contents on to a cd. Anyway, as usual the simplest solution won out ... I was simply able to copy and paste the relevant data from the cd. Tim -----Original Message----- From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Halligan Sent: 14 January 2009 20:32 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Ripping data cds hi Tim when i am making a data cd i do the following, it is the same whether i am using real player or wmp. as a matter of fact there is no need to open the player page at all. pay particular attention to step 9 and 10 as to choice of burning options audio or data. 1 insert the blank cd 2 jaws brings up a dialogue asking what you want to do with a number of choices 3 just close this dialogue box 4 go into the my music folder and pick the track or album i want. lets say it is for example waterloo from an abba album 5 with the track highlighted go to file, send to and cd drive 6 open my computer and cd drive and the tracks you are waiting to burn are listed 7 repeat step 5 if you have more tracks to send to the cd drive and these will appear on the list 8 with the cd drive page open and the list showing just go to file, write these files to cd 9 you will be asked to give the blank cd a name e.g. 'best 80s' 10 when you have given the name and click then you choose to burn either a audio or data cd and click ok. jobs is oxo the data cd in your case will start burning and eject when complete hope this is what you are looking for Tim any problem give me a shout on list or tigerone@xxxxxxxxxx Paul H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:37 AM Subject: [vicsireland] Ripping data cds Hi, What do people use to rip data cds? I've looked in cdex, Windows Media Player and Real Player for an option to rip a data cd, but couldn't find anyting. Cheers, Tim ------------------------- Tim Culhane, Critical Path Ireland, 42-47 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2. Direct line: 353-1-2415107 phone: 353-1-2415000 Tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.criticalpath.net Critical Path a global leader in digital communications ------------------------ ==================== The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message. To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org =========================================================== The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message. To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org ==========================================================The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message. To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org