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KennyGK - 24 Feb 2007 23:57 GMT

How can I rip music (wma) files from a data CD using WMP 11?

When I insert the disc it only allows 'playing' the files, not ripping.

I'm using Vista Ultimate, which seems to fall short of it's 'Ultimate' title.

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KennyGK - 25 Feb 2007 00:21 GMT

Here's a little more info. on this.

WMP11 shows the drive as 'Blank Disc (F:)', yet Windows Explorer shows all 7
of the *.WMA files and a *.doc file, and there are no folders on the CD.

WMP11 also 'plays' the audio files when started from Windows Explorer.

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Ken

> How can I rip music (wma) files from a data CD using WMP 11?
>
> When I insert the disc it only allows 'playing' the files, not ripping.
>
> I'm using Vista Ultimate, which seems to fall short of it's 'Ultimate' title.

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Dale - 25 Feb 2007 02:54 GMT

You don't have to rip it. Just copy the files off using Windows Explorer.

Dale

> Here's a little more info. on this.
>
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>> I'm using Vista Ultimate, which seems to fall short of it's 'Ultimate'
>> title.

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KennyGK - 25 Feb 2007 03:11 GMT

I knew I can do that, however, I want to rip them to my hard drive to mp3
format. Question is, how can I do it without additional software? Why isn't
WMP11 seeing the wma files to rip them? Is WMP11 so stupid it can read only
'music cds'?

Any MSMVPs care to answer this?

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Thanks,
Ken

> You don't have to rip it. Just copy the files off using Windows Explorer.
>
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> >> I'm using Vista Ultimate, which seems to fall short of it's 'Ultimate'
> >> title.

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John Inzer - 25 Feb 2007 04:08 GMT

> I knew I can do that, however, I want to rip them to my hard drive to
> mp3 format. Question is, how can I do it without additional
> software? Why isn't WMP11 seeing the wma files to rip them? Is
> WMP11 so stupid it can read only 'music cds'?
>
> Any MSMVPs care to answer this?

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If it's just a simple data disk...there's
nothing to rip. Try using WMP11 to
burn a CD from the .wma files...then
rip the cd.

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Dale - 25 Feb 2007 04:29 GMT

>> I knew I can do that, however, I want to rip them to my hard drive to
>> mp3 format. Question is, how can I do it without additional
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> burn a CD from the .wma files...then
> rip the cd.

Yikes. That would be a lot of work and the results would sound like crap.
But you're right. If the guy is just that determined to rip his WMA files
he would have to copy them to the hard drive, then use them to burn the CD,
and then rip the CD to the hard drive. Hmmmm..

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Dale - 25 Feb 2007 04:13 GMT

Ripping is a term coined from ripping off an audio CD. You don't have to
rip the WMA files. The concept doesn't even make sense. You can't rip it
off because no one sells them commercially anyway.

Dale

>I knew I can do that, however, I want to rip them to my hard drive to mp3
> format. Question is, how can I do it without additional software? Why
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>> >> I'm using Vista Ultimate, which seems to fall short of it's 'Ultimate'
>> >> title.

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KennyGK - 25 Feb 2007 06:19 GMT

I just wanted to simplify and limit the tasking within WMP11 to 'copy' the
files from wma on cd to mp3 on hard disk within my WMP11 library. However,
WindowsMedia Player is too stupid to even recognize the files on the cd from
within the Ripping window.

I have loads of 'know how' and other 3rd party software, including Adobe
Audition, to get the task done 'if' I really wanted to do it another way.

I'm believing the MAC vs PC commercials more and more whole heartedly
everyday.

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zachd [MSFT] - 25 Feb 2007 08:02 GMT

Nah, the Rip tab is for ripping Redbook Audio CDs to WMA or MP3 only. It's
not meant to be general purpose conversion. It doesn't list the WMA files
because that's not anything it can deal with within that context. =)

You would need to use Explorer to copy the files to disk, and then you can
use any conversion tool to convert it to whatever.

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>I just wanted to simplify and limit the tasking within WMP11 to 'copy' the
> files from wma on cd to mp3 on hard disk within my WMP11 library.
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> I'm believing the MAC vs PC commercials more and more whole heartedly
> everyday.

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Jerry - 25 Feb 2007 11:53 GMT

Another example of a poorly informed user believing all they hype about Mac
V PC because his PC won't let him do what he wants, not because its broken
or anything like that but because its not designed to work like that.

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MsGooch - 28 Mar 2007 18:52 GMT

This may sound really stupid but how the heck do I copy them using windows
explorer and then get them into my media library? Could you maybe put this in
"ripping Music to media player 11 for Dummies" format heh he h eeheh.
Seriously can you please help me???

> You don't have to rip it. Just copy the files off using Windows Explorer.
>
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> >> I'm using Vista Ultimate, which seems to fall short of it's 'Ultimate'
> >> title.

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Dale - 31 Mar 2007 03:24 GMT

First, open Windows Media Player.

Next click the Start button and then on My Computer. Windows Explorer will
open.

Browse to the CD drive. Click CTRL-A to select all of the files on the CD.

Click CTRL-C to copy the files list to the clipboard.

Now browse, in Windows Explorer, to your media library. This is probably
under My Documents\My Music. You should be at a folder with all of your
artists listed.

On a blank (white) spot in the folders window, click CTRL-V to paste the
tracks into your library.

Windows Media Player will, in a few minutes, detect all the new files and
add them automatically to your library.

Dale

> This may sound really stupid but how the heck do I copy them using windows
> explorer and then get them into my media library? Could you maybe put this
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>> >> I'm using Vista Ultimate, which seems to fall short of it's 'Ultimate'
>> >> title.

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