TIFF

As title

I have bought a new external hard drive and i am putting my whole cd collection on there....but is there an easy way to get them from CD onto the hard drive????

S2martin

Prob better off just downloading the albums direct to the hard drive...
Saves all that fucking about i would of thought

TIFF

How do i do that Martin????

At the minute i am ripping them into WMP libary then moving them over

S2martin

Pm'd

FasterFords

media player has a option to rip any CD that you put in, thats what i did with my whole CD collection

foreigneRS

as above - with media player you can select where to rip to, so just select your external drive

Remko GT

But AFAIK MP doesn't rip to MP3.
I found out the hard way

gingeRS

just use itunes.....its free from the apple website

foreigneRS

fuck off with your itunes bollox

WMP does rip to mp3 if you have version 10 or above

BM08

yeah just rip them using windows media player 11, thats what i do, providing your cd/dvd burner is a half decent one you can reel off cd's in a few mins depending on what quality you choose to burn them at, way quicker than finding/downloading them

P.s burn them at the best setting 192kbps

stevieturbo

Realplayer does this too....

Its great, just put a CD in, and 5 mins later its all saved, with all tracks labelled for you.

rs_turbo_ant

just drag n drop them in 2 ya hard drive folder job done

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

There are multiple programmes out there to rip music onto your PC, but here's two I use and find easy and quick;

Windows Media Player.

Contrary to popular belife, WMP does rip to MP3 and a bitrate of your choice. You have to have version 10 or 11 tho - 9 only rips to WMA. By default v10 and 11 rip to WMA, but go to the RIP tab, hit options and you can choose the format (WMA or MP3) and the bitrate. I always rip to 320kbps MP3 but it's up to you.....

Benefit of using WMP to rip is it a) rips the CD, b) downloads the album info and art for you, and c) puts it into your media library. I stopped playing music by looking it up in a folder ages ago and almost exclusively use WMP as my library nowadays to search for and play music.

To get it to go on your external HDD, also under the rip tab is a setting you can specify for where the music gets written to as it's ripped. Locate your external HDD using the CHANGE button and save the option and so long as your external HDD is on, it will rip the tracks from CD to MP3 straight to your drive....

If you don't want to use WMP you can use this free software;

Express Rip from NCH.com.au

Free programme, quick to rip and very customiseable(sp) - LOADS of different format options, bit rates etc....

You can change options to have it rip to a different location than default (so it saves the MP3's to your external HDD) and I *think* it has internet access to download the media info (album art, track data etc) if you allow it to. Personally I don't, but thats cos I use WMP for that, and I use Express rip to rip "raw" data and input the ID3 info myself....

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

320 is a much higher bit rate than 192 and it sounds better.....

collierm

Free program called Audiograbber v1.83.

It includes an MP3 encoder and you can download additional encoders (LAME, FLAC etc) if you want to save them as something else.

When you put the CD in, it'll search the net, download all the CD info and apply it to all the tracks.

I haven't found a simpler way to rip my music collection and I did nigh on 600 CD's in a weekend. Only about another 600 to go when I can be arsed