rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 How to I rip a CD to my computer and then convert it to mp3 format? Anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 EAC exact audio copy do a quick search, its free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Do you know what software/hardware you already have? I have a Creative Soundblaster Audigy soundcard, and it came with software to take care of ripping an audio CD to WAV files, and converting the WAV files to MP3 files. Alternately, EAC is a good program for extractin WAV files from an audio CD. I'm not familiar with any stand-alone WAV->MP3 converters, though. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 thanks tube! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Yeah, i gotta wicked deal on my soundcard...Here scot, take this one, i got a new one...nothing like hand me downs!!! so it didn't come with software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberHippie Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 I like this real small simple program called "Cd Copy". It's free, simple, and works like a charm. ftp://members.aol.com/mbarth2193/cdcopy.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Holy crap...I didnt think it would take this long! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\/\/illy Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 EAC is an extraction tool. It converts the tracks on the CD into .WAV files. Then you need to convert them into .MP3s. To do that you'll want to use the LAME encoder. (It's free too.) It's the best and it will integrate with EAC so that you can simply hit one button and EAC will extract the audio (.WAV) and execute LAME to perform the enciding to .MP3. Does that all make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 yessir...got it and she be working good now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 I use EAC for ripping when I'm copying discs but to rip straight to mp3 I find CDex super convenient. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Do you really wanna go from CD->WAV->MP3? Why not just use iTunes and go CD->MP3 in one step? It takes about 8 minutes, depending on what bitrate you want. AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 I tried to use itunes but I couldn't figure it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Oh, well you put in the CD. If you're connected to the internet it will download all the track names for you. Then you simply click the import button at the top right of the screen and iTunes will rip the CD into your library. This assumes that you've set up your library folder and importing settings in the Tools | Options or Preferences menu, but once that's done it's one click for each CD. The help file should explain this pretty well. Click here to find out how to do this.. AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 CDex does straight CD to mp3 conversion and only takes about 8 minutes a disc as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 so I assume I choose mp3 encoder in the library section? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 yup, or AAC if you're only gonna be using the mp3s in iTunes / an iPod. If you use iTunes already this would be the way to do it, but if not it might be easier to use that standalone that Ollie suggested. AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 ok...I figured I tunes out...Now that Cdex thing...I thought I did it right but I don't know where the files went too... thanks for all your help everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 I use EAC for extraction but I found this one to be the easiest by far to use once you add the required codecs.I still use MKW & FLAC Frontend myself,but have found for new users that this one is really easy to figure out and it covers ALL formats.WAVFLACSHNMP3MP4OGGetchttp://www.dbpoweramp.com/Cool feature for people who like mp3 or mp4 (tighter compression) is you can convert SHN or FLAC directly to mp3 or mp4 without coverting to WAV first,not sure if the other decoders mention do that or not,but its a cool feature anyway.Very easy to use once set up.edit to add:I guess the others do convert to mp3 from data also,I should have read the entire thread first...d'oh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Hey rd, try looking in My Documents > My Music for your files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted January 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 bingo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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