How do I rip CDs to my hard drive?
 

I want to turn my computer into a fucking multimedia beast. First step, music. How do I take my CDs and convert them to a computer format? MP3s or whatever...

If you plan on trading with friends, most prefer .mp3, but sometimes for smaller file size for personal use shit Windows Media does it.

Simply insert CD > Click Copy From CD (blue menu on left) > select tracks > Click Copy.

It puts the files in organzied directories in your 'My Music' folder, even screenshots of the discs if it has it in its database, all track names etc are storied as well.

A pirate turned me on to

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

that's what I use now.

Windows media burns .wma's CDEX burns .mp3 and does much more.

Good luck,.

Use a mp3 ripper like Easy CD-DA Extractor or Musicmatch

http://download.com.com/3000-2140-10...ml?tag=lst-0-5
http://download.com.com/3000-2167-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V

I'm not looking to trade files, just want to have a collection of songs I like on my computer for quick, random use throughout the day. I'll try your suggestion Fletch. How much space does a typical CD take up using your method?

Thanks.

Turning them into .WMA files makes each track about 1 meg.
An MP3, depending on various factors, can be anywhere from 2-6 megs.

aww come on, live on the edge and trade some mp3's hahaha

:winkwink:

Really depends man. I have punk albums that have 18 tracks and are only 16 minutes long in entirety hahaha

I have metal albums that are like 62 minutes and 6 tracks hahah so the size varies greatly.

But instead of ripping at 192 you can use Win Media and rip at like 64 if its just for personal use, depends on how good your ears are I suppose. But ripping at a smaller bit rate makes the size smaller.

For example: Highway to Hell is 57 megs at 192 most likely around 28 or so at 64, (guessing)

Its a difference when you have a shitload of albums.

but I dont really keep all the tracks on my drive. I pick the songs I like off albums and encode. Some I keep the full disc if I like it all, which is the case many times, but not all.

:winkwink:

You guys are forgetting the most important factor.

LENGTH OF TIME.

I have blues tracks that are 16 minutes, the file size is much larger hahaha

length of song matters mostly regarding size of file.

Most MP3 players come with MusicMatch. I works great for converting CD's to MP3's.

Well, typical song size about 4-5 minutes. I'll probably just convert the whole CD over at first and then slowly delete the songs I don't like. Going to convert a couple disks over today.

I'm way behind the times, haha. Think I should get another hard drive specifically for music?

i didn't forget that.

for the most part, tracks are anywhere from 3:30-5 mins. not everyone listens to 16 minute blues tracks or 1 minute punk songs :)

I usually use Sound Forge to pull tracks, but there's lots of freeware that works well nowdays.

depends on what you got for a harddrive there.... right now I have only about 3 gigs of music, so no big deal. That's roughly about 470 tracks. (give or take)

There is no way to determine the average song length of all songs recorded or what the majority of people listen to.

that's a silly concept.

:winkwink:

well then i'm just a silly person!

Oh, ok. I have an 80GB right now. I doubt I'll have more than 400 tracks. Are you using Mp3 or WMA?

everything I have is in MP3 at 192

(and some misc. wavs but those are irrelevant to this right now)

Buying Soundforge to burn mp3s is like buying Grumbacher Oil paint to make a Garage Sale sign.

I've used Sound Foundry products for years, you don't need that just to rip music man.

But if you want to get into wav editing it sure can be fun.

;)

you ripped them at 192? are you only download them at 192?

hence, the reason I said "but there's lots of freeware that works well nowdays." :)

rip to WAV, convert to MP3 at 192

Man save yourself some time. Download CDEX and skip the wav part, rip straight from disc to 192.

It can also encode avi, wav etc.

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

;)

eh... not worried too much about it. I mostly only download these days. Haven't manually ripped a disc in over a year. :)

Copying The Golden Age of Grotesque now. Next up: Antichrist Superstar.

I encode a disc before I play it hahaha

I havent used my CD player in a long time.

:1orglaugh

400 tracks shouldn't take up more than 1.5GB if you rip at 128, a bit more if you want higher quality at 192

Sweet! First CD done! About 50MB. This kicks ass.

I always meant to sit down one day and rip my entire collection.... but it's just too time consuming.... lol

something I do use all the time though is a quick and dirty little program called BurnQuick.... no frills no bullshit.... just a kick ass quick burn utility that integrates into the Windows Explorer interface, for grabbing and burning to disc, for when I want some tunes for the beach or something.... takes longer for me to decide which tracks than it does to burn 'em.

takes about 2 minutes to burn a whole disc.

it's solid and it's cheap... http://www.burnquick.com/

burns data, music, all of it.