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Wheel-Nut
03-03-05, 02:45 PM
I bought a couple of new CD's and want to strip a few songs off of each one and burn a new mix. I fire up the old Roxio program and it says No files availabe or something to that effect.

What program is available, preferrably free, that would allow me to get at these music files on the CD's?
RusH
03-03-05, 02:55 PM
I bought a couple of new CD's and want to strip a few songs off of each one and burn a new mix. I fire up the old Roxio program and it says No files availabe or something to that effect.

What program is available, preferrably free, that would allow me to get at these music files on the CD's?

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
racer2c
03-03-05, 03:17 PM
Microsofts Media Player rips and burns. Winamp Rips. Both are free.
Spicoli
03-03-05, 03:21 PM
why buy ****?

www.limewire.com (thank me later)

windows media rocks, itunes sucks and real player is the worst.

roxio is for barbie dolls.
RusH
03-03-05, 03:28 PM
why buy ****?

www.limewire.com (thank me later)

windows media rocks, itunes sucks and real player is the worst.

roxio is for barbie dolls.


I use Limewire :thumbup:

But I also have an iPod.
Wheel-Nut
03-03-05, 03:31 PM
Just so I understand . . .

These programs will allow me to srtip a song from an existing CD, even a ECD, save it to my hard drive to be burned to another CD at a later date?
devilmaster
03-03-05, 03:35 PM
I use a program called CDmaster32 by zittware. It rips cd tracks to wav or mp3, then use your cd burning program to make your new CD.

Steve
Spicoli
03-03-05, 03:36 PM
Just so I understand . . .

These programs will allow me to srtip a song from an existing CD, even a ECD, save it to my hard drive to be burned to another CD at a later date?

yes. use windows media player. don;t usae the others as they will make ytou convert files and crap.

ipods are ok if you have a beard or listen to phish. :gomer:






:runs:
Wheel-Nut
03-03-05, 03:38 PM
I'm trying to burn a mix of Godsmack, and no beard here, you know how hot Texas summers are??
Spicoli
03-03-05, 03:39 PM
I use a program called CDmaster32 by zittware. It rips cd tracks to wav or mp3, then use your cd burning program to make your new CD.

Steve

I think WMedia player 9.0 does that too.

Jamming to "The Dandy Warhols" right now.
devilmaster
03-04-05, 11:11 AM
I think WMedia player 9.0 does that too.

Jamming to "The Dandy Warhols" right now.

I think it does too. Many programs are doing it now, I use zittware because it offers automatic file and tab naming by going to cddb during the rip. When i first d'loaded it, it was free but had banner ads, something I could live with.

I'm slowly learning a program called 'The Godfather', which is a sound file organizer. A friend of mine put me on to it. Its very powerful, but its a power user kind of program, even he needed tutorials.

http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Steve
Spicoli
03-04-05, 11:28 AM
I think it does too. Many programs are doing it now, I use zittware because it offers automatic file and tab naming by going to cddb during the rip. When i first d'loaded it, it was free but had banner ads, something I could live with.

I'm slowly learning a program called 'The Godfather', which is a sound file organizer. A friend of mine put me on to it. Its very powerful, but its a power user kind of program, even he needed tutorials.

http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

Steve

I tried it last night and it does. When you burn, it goes through a "converting" stage on your playlist. Then it burns.
pfc_m_drake
03-04-05, 12:42 PM
EAC (Exact Audio Copy) is the best digital audio extraction (DAE) program available.

It's 100% free, though you should at least be good enough to do as Andre asks and send him a nice postcard.

Read the documentation on his website, and follow the links if you want to learn more...but the bottom line is that for quality DAE, there is no better program available...anywhere.

EAC will extract files from CD to your hard drive in either uncompressed (wav) format, or you can use the Lame mp3 encoder (also free...also the best available...I think I see a trend here) to compress to mp3.

Finally, just FYI, some audio CDs are copy protected. This is much more common in Europe, but does happen in the US as well. Very few software packages will assist you in defeating audio copy protection. However, certain hardware (e.g. CD-ROM/RW drives) have been known to be particularly good at defeating copy protection. Not that anybody would ever be interested in doing such things, of course, which are illegal.

Links

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de (EAC)
http://lame.sourceforge.net/ (Lame mp3)
http://www.plextor.com (excellent manufacturer of high quality optical drives)
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-4 (Andy McFadden's excellent CD-Recordable FAQ section on copy protection).