Yes, you can rip direct to your external drive if you like though it will probably be a little slower than ripping direct to your hard drive.
Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dancing Queen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Copying CD's > OK, brilliant!! > > I take it I can rip them right to my external drive? > > Oh yes!! > > Me going to have fun and lots of it!! > > Trace, with huge thanks > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 1:59 PM > Subject: Re: Copying CD's > > > > Hi Trace. > > > > Here are some notes on how to set up media player 10 to rip CD's to your > > hard drive. You can change your settings so that media player will > > automatically rip the CD when you close the drawer and eject it when > > finished so this is the quickest way to rip a large number of CD's. I'll > > also post some notes on CDEX in case you prefer to use that program. > > > > 1. Start windows media player. > > > > 2. Press alt and T to open the tools menu. > > > > 3. Use the up arrow to find the options menu and press enter. > > > > 4. You'll now be in the player tab. Press shift & tab to move up to the > > > > list of tabs and then right arrow to locate the ripping tab. > > > > 5. Tabbing once will land you on the change button. Pressing spacebar or > > > > enter will open a dialogue that will allow you to change where you rip > > your > > > > music > > > > to. Initially this will be set to my music in the my documents folder. > > > > 6. Pressing tab again will land you on the file name button. This is > > where > > > > you can specify how you want your ripped music files to be named. The > > > > default > > > > is that you'll get a folder with the artist name and inside there a folder > > > > with the album name. Opening the album folder will reveal the tracks in > > the > > > > format track number dash track title. > > > > 7. Pressing tab again will land you in a combo box where you can choose > > the > > > > format of your ripped music. The choices are MP3, windows media audio, > > WAV > > > > or windows media audio lossless. > > > > 8. Pressing tab again will land you on a button where you can go and > > learn > > > > a little more about MP3 and WMA formats. > > > > 9. Pressing tab again will land you on the copy protect checkbox. Make > > > > sure this is unchecked otherwise you'll start having problems moving your > > > > music > > > > around from player to player. > > > > 10. The next checkbox is rip music when CD is inserted. This is very > > > > useful if you want to rip a number of CD's at a time. If you have media > > > > player started > > > > and this is checked, when you close your CD drawer with a CD inserted, it > > > > will be automatically ripped. > > > > 11. The following checkbox is eject CD when ripping is complete. This > > > > again is useful with the above checkbox so that you can keep feeding CD's > > > > into the > > > > computer and have them ejected to take out and put the next CD in. > > > > 12. Tabbing again will land you on a compare music formats. This is > > > > another informational option to go and find out more about formats and > > > > listen to some > > > > samples that demonstrate the differences in format. > > > > 13. Now you've probably noticed that I've missed a combo box while > > > > describing this. It's only seen if you have the MP3 or windows media > > audio > > > > format chosen > > > > and it let's you choose the quality of your ripped music. It doesn't show > > > > if you choose WAV or windows media audio lossless as these are always > > ripped > > > > at 100% quality. If you do want to use MP3 or WMA at lower bit rates, you > > > > can use the arrow keys to choose the quality. If you use your JAWS cursor > > > > each > > > > time you change the setting you'll see some extra information about the > > > > quality you've chosen. > > > > 14. When you've made all your changes tab to the OK button and press > > enter > > > > to save them. They'll remain as your default settings. > > > > > > Kevin > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dancing Queen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:40 PM > > Subject: Re: Copying CD's > > > > > >> OK, could you give me some instructions please? > >> > >> Sorry for the delay, been mad around here lately. > >> > >> thanks > >> > >> Trace > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:31 PM > >> Subject: Re: Copying CD's > >> > >> > >> > Hi Trace. > >> > > >> > It would be best for you to rip your CD's to your hard drive and then > >> > create > >> > your compilation in the same way as you did for those tracks you > >> > downloaded. > >> > You can use media player, CDEX or a few other rippers to do this and > >> > you'll > >> > need to choose a format you're happy with. I'd recommend ripping to a > >> > lossless format such as WMA lossless. You can use media player to rip > >> > your > >> > CD's to this format. > >> > > >> > Regards. > >> > > >> > Kevin > >> > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> > From: "Dancing Queen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > To: "PC audio discussion list. 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