Yes, I am copying an entire album that someone could use to burn a cd.
On 2013-02-08, at 9:31 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> I might be able to help but I also will need to have a better idea of what 
> you're trying to accomplish. Are you trying to make a single disk file that 
> somebody could use to burn another copy of the whole CD verbatim? I think 
> Disk Utility will do that.
> 
> CB
> 
> On 2/6/13 10:36 PM, Esther wrote:
>> Sorry, in the instructions I gave that's "copy the folder with Command-C and 
>> paste it into your Dropbox with Command-V".  And maybe Chris Blouch or 
>> someone else can give a better answer to this question.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Esther
>> On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Esther wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Kerri,
>>> 
>>> I'll try this again, since my earlier reply did not go through.  I'm
>>> not sure what you mean by the "entire CD" as opposed to all the music
>>> tracks. If you want to copy a folder with the name of the album, just
>>> add one step to my previous instructions: select a track from the
>>> album, press command-shift-R to show the track in Finder, then (this
>>> is the added step) press Command-Up Arrow to move up a level to the
>>> folder that contains the tracks.  This will be have the name of the
>>> album.  Copy this folder with Command-V and paste it into your Dropbox
>>> with Command-V.
>>> 
>>> If you mean that you want the entire CD contents as a single joined,
>>> imported track, there's also a way to do that in iTunes via the
>>> advanced menu,  If you mean that you want an image if the CD that can
>>> be copied and burned with a CD copy on another machine for
>>> distribution to other people, you'll have to ask someone else.  The
>>> only such CDs I've done of ISO images has been of public distribution
>>> software releases, and that is done from the command line.  I guess I
>>> don't know what you mean by copying the entire CD, not have individual
>>> tracks.  The method I outlined will let you copy and paste a single
>>> folder with the name of the album, but it will still contain
>>> individual tracks of music.  If you want to import everything as a
>>> joined, single track, after you insert the CD, and focus is on the CD
>>> in the iTunes sidebar, assuming that you have first changed this to
>>> classic view by pressing command-option-s so that the sidebar is
>>> visible when the CD is inserted, press Command-I to get info on the CD
>>> tracks. Select all with Coomand-A.  Then move to the Advanced menu of
>>> the ITunes menu bar (Control-F2, press "a.", and arrow down to select
>>> "Join CD Tracks" and return. Then import the CD.  This is from memory,
>>> so someone else may be able to help you.
>>> 
>>> If this is not what you want, please write back in more detail. it
>>> sounds as though whatever you put over, you do not want there to be
>>> any individual tracks, even within an album folder.
>>> 
>>> HTH.  Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Esther
>>> 
>>> On Feb 6, 3:08 pm, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi, Esther:
>>>> 
>>>> I want to copy the entire cd, not have individual tracks. When I pasted 
>>>> the cd into drop box, I saw individual tracks, not an album.
>>>> On 2013-02-06, at 4:50 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello Kerri,
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure what you want to do here, but if you want to make copies
>>>>> of all your imported CD tracks from iTunes, select one of the tracks,
>>>>> then press Command-Shift-R, which should show the location of that
>>>>> track in a Finder window under the folder for its album. Press Command-
>>>>> A to select all, the Command-C to copy.  Then navigate to the folder
>>>>> you want to put your tracks into and paste with Command-V. For
>>>>> example, if I want to put these into a folder on my Desktop named "My
>>>>> Great Music", I could move to the Desktop with Command-Shift-D. Create
>>>>> a new folder there with Command-Shift-N and type in the name "My Great
>>>>> Music".  Then I could move into the folder with Command-Down arrow and
>>>>> paste in the tracks I had copied with Command-V.
>>>> 
>>>>> You would still need to move aback into iTunes with Command-Tab and
>>>>> delete the tracks there, because iTunes keeps its own database, and
>>>>> simply deleting the tracks using Finder only leaves behind broken
>>>>> links.
>>>> 
>>>>> Ray is correct that if you don't want to organize your music in
>>>>> iTunes, and don't care about being able to sync it to an iPhone or
>>>>> other Apple device, you should probably use third party software like
>>>>> Mac by sbooth to rip your CDs.
>>>> 
>>>>> HTH.  Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>>> Esther
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 6, 2:28 pm, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> hi, ray, yes it is a store bought c and is max an app or a regular 
>>>>>> program? So do I perform a google search or fetch it from the app store?
>>>>>> On 2013-02-06, at 4:20 PM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>> IS it a store bought CD?  Max would be the way I would go about doing 
>>>>>>> this.  It's free and accessible and easy to set up.
>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sent from my mac
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray
>>>>>>> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>>> hello, all. I recently import a cd but don't want it in the library. 
>>>>>>>> how do I copy the entire cd? When I went to it and did command c, 
>>>>>>>> individual tracks were copied, not the whole cd. Thanks and have a 
>>>>>>>> great day.
>>>> 
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