I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped guide me through the process of burning/ripping, especially Tony and Kevin. Your most recent messages were extremely helpful, and I so appreciate the easy to follow instructions. Although I am not an expert, I can honestly say that the burning/ripping challenge has been met. (big smile) It has been a month of time consuming/frustrating trial and error, but the pay off is certainly rewarding. (thumbs up)
FYI: The problem was that I used a MP3 format to burn the files. It was confusing, because the CD played just fine in a commercial CD player and/or in a computer, and actually allowed me to rip them on to a different computer. I could never get the files to show in Media Player's burn/play list. However, thanks to Kevin I tried using the Audio CD format. The files appeared properly in the list view. Actually I'm burning with Media Player, rather than iTunes, as the software is easier to use for sorting files in the list view. I don't suppose anybody out there has an easy way to sort files in iTunes? Other than that issue, iTunes is a pretty good program. It is so frustrating! When I open a folder of songs in the iTunes library, the order is completely rearranged. The iTunes documentation said that the files could be copied into the play list and/or resorted in the library, but I simply can't figure out how to use JFW to do that. Fortunately Media Player doesn't rearrange the files so I'll stick with it unless somebody can help. Thanks again, Katrina -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nick danger Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:15 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Media Player: Ripping/Burning Hi Katrina, Here's how to burn cd's using the media player. First from your my music folder, select the tracks you want to burn and add each one you want to burn to the burn list. The add option is in the file menu. Once you have the files you want, hit alt-tab to your focus is in the media player program. from there, press tab to get to the first of the burn buttons and hit space on it. Then hit the tab key about 9 times to reach the second of the buttons which is the start burn button. Once you're on that, press enter on it and you should be in business. Hop this helps. Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "nick danger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:06 PM Subject: Re: Media Player: Ripping/Burning > Hi Katrina, > > First, you'll need to upgrade your media player to the latest version > which > is 10.0 > > Once you have that, you can follow these instructions for ripping cd's > with > it. > > Ripping a cd to your hard drive using the windows media player > Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to insert the cd into the hard > drive. > A dialog box will then come up and prompt you to take an action. These > will > range from exploring the files on the cd with the windows explorer, to > burning a cd with your preferred rom burning program to ripping the cd > with > the > windows media player or simply to take no action. Once you've chosen the > rip > action press enter and the cd will rip to the following folder: > c:\documents > and settings\my documents\my music location. > If you choose to take no action and want to perform the rip manually, > select > the windows media player application, then tab to the firsst of the rip > music > buttons and press space to activate it. From this point, hit tab about 9 > times to access the second rip music button and hit space on that. The > tracks > will be ripped to the folder named above. > To perform a selective rip, once you tab to the second of the rip buttons, > hit the tab key once more and you will be in the tracks listbox. By > default > you are at the top of it and the tracks appear in a vertical order so the > down arrow moves you to each corresponding track. all of the tracks are > checked > by default at first. Simply uncheck the tracks you don't want to rip by > hitting the down arrow and spacebar then shift-tab once to the rip button > and > press space on it and the selected tracks will be ripped into the my music > folder. Hopefully this explanation makes sense. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:51 PM > Subject: Media Player: Ripping/Burning > > >>I have spent endless hours trying to figure out how Media Player can rip >>or >> burn CDs, and have had little success. Perhaps it is because I don't >> understand the program, but I have read the help documentation and think >> I >> do. My thought is that JAWS is preventing me from having success. Are >> there any tips for using JAWS for ripping/burning via Media Player? Or, >> would somebody be willing to share specific steps for how these tasks can >> be >> accomplished? Or, can you direct me to help documentation that would >> prove >> more helpful than what is contained with in Media Player? I checked the >> JFW >> help files, and found nothing. However, I have not been to the FS >> Website >> yet. >> >> I have tried to rip/burn on two different computers. Both systems have >> the >> most current version of Media Player (8 I think). One system runs XP >> Professional on a network, and the other system runs XP Home. The latter >> system is accessed via JFW 7.0, and the other system is unfortunately >> stuck >> with JFW 4.5. >> >> Fortunately I have managed to figure out how to burn via iTunes, but that >> program is only on one of my computers. Since I can burn CDs on that >> system, I am especially interested in mastering the ripping problem. >> However, I'd like to know how to rip/burn so that I can share with my >> students/friends who are interested in conquering the same tasks. All >> help >> would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Katrina >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we >> offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. 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