This section provides a tutorial on how to rip music off an audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) to MP3 music files with Windows Media Player.
New version of Windows Media Player can not only play music from an audio CD,
but it can also rip music off an audio CD and convert it into MP3 file.
MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, is an audio encoding format which greatly compress
audio sample data stored on audio CDs.
Here is what I did to rip music from my audio CD into MP3 files with Windows Media Player version 10.
0. Create a folder C:\temp\mp3 on your hard disk to store ripped music files.
1. Start Windows Media Player.
2. Click the dropdown menu icon in the title bar, select Tools menu,
and select Options sub-menu. The Options dialog box shows up.
3. Click the Rip Music tap, and make the following changes:
Rip music to this location: C:\temp\mp3
Rip settings - Format: mp3
Rip settings - Audio quality: Uses about 115 MB per CD (256 Kpbs)
4. Insert my audio CD into the CD drive.
5. Click the Rip tab. De-select all tracks and select track 1 and track 7.
Then click the Rip Music icon. Windows Media Player starts to rip selected
music tracks from the audio CD and convert them into MP3 files.
6. After testing 2 tracks, re-select all tracks and rip them off to MP3 files.
Unfortunately, the ripping process failed on track #8 and #10 with this error message:
"Windows Media Player cannot play the CD. The disc might be birty
or damaged. Turn error correct, and then try again."
No MP3 files generated for track #8 and #10.
This behavior is bad. I think Windows Media Player
should pad the bad audio frame and generate MP3 files.
I need to search for a better music rip software.
