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New to MP3 ......help

Octygone
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I see windows media player will rip to mp3 ...........does media player do a good job and will the results play on all players or should I be using something different?

Are you sure? It doesn't on Win98, and AFAIK on my missus's XP laptop it doesn't either. Media Player rips to .wma format only IIRC. Having said that, a lot of MP3 players these days also play .wma files. I use MusicMatch, which I used to be very happy with, but now generates a pop-up every time I use it 'cos I'm too tight-fisted to shell out for the full version. I reckon someone on here could point you to a decent ripper for free or at least for not much money...

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Are you sure? It doesn't on Win98, and AFAIK on my missus's XP laptop it doesn't either. Media Player rips to .wma format only IIRC. Having said that, a lot of MP3 players these days also play .wma files. I use MusicMatch, which I used to be very happy with, but now generates a pop-up every time I use it 'cos I'm too tight-fisted to shell out for the full version. I reckon someone on here could point you to a decent ripper for free or at least for not much money...

Didn't look for that and I think you're right, only to wma,

now just need to find something that does any reccommendations

Download iTunes from the Apple website mate, or, I think CDex worked well for me before [url']http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/[/url]

I thought iTunes only worked with .aac files, and so would only work with an iPod (some geezer in the US is taking Apple to court for exactly that reason...)

For windows media player you need a 'plug in' for it to rip to mp3

That's what I'd stick with, then, pdtdi - in fact I'll be getting that plug-in myself when I get home! :thumbup:

Surely 'Sound Recorder' the applet included since Windows 3.1 will record music files from a CD??????

Surely 'Sound Recorder' the applet included since Windows 3.1 will record music files from a CD??????

Well, it's not an applet, it's an application, and it seems to have some sort of memory restriction on it (can only record 60 seconds on mine)...also you'd have to do it in realtime, whereas a ripper can do it much much quicker...

Rob.

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For windows media player you need a 'plug in' for it to rip to mp3

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9Series/GettingStarted//Personalization/Plugins.asp

you will find quality will not change from one bit of software to another' date=' the thing that usaly varies is time it take to 'rip' a CD

Joel[/quote']

Sounds good to me and the price isn't too bad so i'll have a go later on.

And William I see your avatar seems to have been still for a couple of days now.... It was making me giddy .... and I think it stopped on the wrong one :D

I thought iTunes only worked with .aac files, and so would only work with an iPod (some geezer in the US is taking Apple to court for exactly that reason...)

I think the guy in the US needs to have a look in the menus...all my MP3s in the car are encoded on iTunes. It does WAV as well. The guy may be complaining that the iTunes music store only supplies in AAC, and therefore tunes bought from the store can only be used on iPod.

Cheers

Ventmore

Well' date=' it's not an applet, it's an application, and it seems to have some sort of memory restriction on it (can only record 60 seconds on mine)...also you'd have to do it in realtime, whereas a ripper can do it much much quicker...

Rob.[/quote']

Not restricted, other than by size of your computers storage on my PC. I used it in the past to get a digital copy of the timed beeps used for the Royal Navy fitness test from the audio cassette. Linked up a tape walkman to the audio in on my notebook PC and recorded the beeps (8 mins in total) using Sound Recorder. Then I had to download an application that would turn the .wav file into standard audio CD and burn it unto a CD-R disk to allow me to practice the fitness test at home using my CD stereo. In those days, DC writing software did not automatically convert sound files to audio CD format as they seem to now (see my recent thread).

Not restricted, other than by size of your computers storage on my PC. I used it in the past to get a digital copy of the timed beeps used for the Royal Navy fitness test from the audio cassette.

Yeah, it is to do with the memory availabel to it. I take it that 8 minutes wasn't at CD quality though?!

Rob.

Well' date=' it's not an applet, it's an application, and it seems to have some sort of memory restriction on it (can only record 60 seconds on mine)...also you'd have to do it in realtime, whereas a ripper can do it much much quicker...

Rob.[/quote']

Mines resticted to 60 secs as well, but a quick google will bring up a few workarounds...just in case you want to use it in the future :)

Not really CD quality, as it was from a knackered cassette and consisted of 3,2 1 Beep........Beep.........Beep repeated for 2 mins (4 times over) :), so did not require hiqh quality sampling. Just wanted to get it off cassette (which wears out with repeated play and rewind) and unto a CD.

Mines resticted to 60 secs as well, but a quick google will bring up a few workarounds...just in case you want to use it in the future :)

Starnge, my notebook would have either been running Windows 98SE or ME (which I had on it briefly before I reverted due to it being crap), I can not remeber which system I was using at the time, but it most definitely was able to record the full 8 min duration of the recording on the tape.

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After a bit of searching I have now found and installed windows media player 10 which does rip to MP3 as standard and it's FREE!!! :)

Thanks everyone :thumbup:

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