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Ripping Audio CDs into MP3 files

Ripping a DVD into a Divx/Xvid

Converting an AVI file to SVCD

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Ripping Audio CDs into MP3 files

This guide was created for people who have no clue where to start. For ripping the CD you will need a software like easy CD-DA Extractor. Please note that some new CDs have copy protection and this method will probably not work with it.

First download CD-DA Extractor from: http://www.poikosoft.com/download.html

Install it and then register it so you will not have any limitations. Start the program, insert the Audio CD that you want to rip and choose the drive (Device) where the Audio CD is located in. After you choose the drive, the software will automatically connect to CDDB and will get the names of the songs and the artist (Assuming that the disk is original or 1:1 copy of an original disk).

You should see something like this (I used my brothers "The Doors" CD. I wanted to use one of my R.E.M that I bought, but my brother took them all :-(   ):

 

If you click on the upper left green V then you can either select all tracks or unselect all tracks. Click it once if you want to select them all.

Now configure the encoding system to MP3, and choose 192Kb/sec (192Kb/sec is a good quality, but 128KB/sec also give good results):

Select where you want to save the mp3 files, and then click on Rip CD. Few minutes later you will have mp3 version of the cd. You can also check the option to make an M3U playlist which will create a m3u file which tells WMP or winamp to play the songs 1 after the other.

Few notes:

  • I take no responsibility on the use that is made with this manual
  • I do not encourage people to download warez or mp3 or to crack CD-DA Extractor. I'm assuming that you have the original Audio CD and you want to have mp3 version stored on your computer, or have it in your IPOD so you could use it while spinning, walking, doing sport or what ever....

 

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