Thank you for this. I am tech savvy but the last time ripped cds it took me forever to find menu to actually let me rip and then there was something else it took forever to figure out to get it to "actually" rip.
Cindy > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk [mailto:talk- > [email protected]] On > Behalf Of Carol and Roger via Talk > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 3:40 PM > To: Christopher-Mark Gilland; Window-Eyes Discussion List > Subject: Re: Ripping music CD's with windows Media Player > > Hi Chris, > > I sent the following information tutorial on ripping with WMP > to a beginner friend of mine. Maybe you will find it useful. I > also sent it to David. > > > Below is a small tutorial that I wrote for a friend of mine about > a year or so ago. I hope you will find it useful. The person I > wrote it for was very new to computers, or at least she > thought she was. -- Carol > > > Setting Up WMP for ripping CDs > > > First, open Windows Media Player. If you have an icon, use > that. If not, press the windows key and type wmplayer in the > search box and press enter. > > > Press control-1 The purpose of doing this is so you can hear > options as you tab through the boxes. > > > Shift-tab probably five times, depending on your options on > the screen. > Stop when you reach "organize". Press the up arrow twice. > The first > time will say context and the second will say options. Press > enter on > options. > > > Your cursor will most likely land on the first item in the library > tab. > Shift-tab once to get to the tab choices (it will most likely say > library) and left-arrow, probably four times, until you get to rip > Music. > > > Once in the Rip tab, you can set up your options. The first > time you > tab, you will land on a change button. Press your left-arrow to > move to > the name of the file location. If this is acceptable, go to the > next > step. If you wish to change your file location, either type in > the > complete path for the music folder of your choice or press > enter on the > button and tab through the options there and locate your > desired folder > or create a new folder and tab to the OK button and press > enter. > > > The next tab is where you choose how you want your track > titles to > appear. Press enter on the button. This opens a list of things > like > artist, track title, track number, etc. Check the options you > want by > pressing the spacebar. Tab to the next list and choose the > desired > separator, space, dash, underline, etc., and tab to the next > choice, > which is the move up or down choice group, for placing your > items in the > desired order, for example, number title. After you have your > list in > the order you wish it, tab to the OK button and press enter. > > > Your next tab brings you to the music format. If you want > MP3, for > example, press M and MP3 will be highlighted. We will > configure that > choice shortly. The next tab is a link with information about > copyright > protection. You may click on that tab or skip it. > > > The next tab takes you to a checkbox to indicate whether you > want CDs to > rip automatically when you put them into the drive. (I use > Winamp for > playing my music, so if I put a CD into the drive, it is most likely > that I want it ripped, so I have my box checked. If you do not > want > files ripped automatically, leave this box unchecked. > > > The next tab is simply a checkbox allowing the CD to be > ejected once it > has finished ripping. Again, I have mine checked. This is my > personal > preference. > > > OK, now comes the tricky box. This is the option for choosing > your bit > rate for MP3 files. If you did not select MP3, you will not see > this > box. Actually, WE calls it a trackbar. There are four options as > you > arrow up or down. Pay no attention to the fact that all options > say > "smallest". Listen for the number, instead. The four choices > are: > > 3 (top choice) rips at 320 bit > > 2 rips at 256 bit > > 1 rips at 192 bit and > > 0, the bottom choice, rips at 128 bit. > > After making your choice, simply tab to the OK button and, if > you do not > wish to change any of the other settings, press enter on the > button and > you are ready for ripping your CDs to your computer. > > > If you wish to look through other settings groups, tab until you > get > back to the Rip Music tab and arrow through the other > categories. > > > Since I have not done more than take a cursory glance at the > other > settings, I will not address those here. > > > Have fun ripping all your music. > > > Carol > > > On 5/21/2015 2:47 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk > wrote: > > I totally agree. I love ITunes, bigtime, but honestly, I really > don't > > want to put the batch of CD's which I need to rip into my > library. > > So, yeah, if someone can guide both of us step by step, I am > with > > David entirely. I'd love to know. I did it once, and as tech > savvy as > > I am, I'm quite confident that I probably could figure it out > on my > > own again, but if you all could give some pointers, it would > help. > > > > Chris. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David via Talk" > > <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 11:20 AM > > Subject: Ripping music CD's with windows Media Player > > > > > >> Hi all, I have repped many CD's with Windows Media Player > but it must > >> be a year since I did the last one and I have forgotten what > to do. > >> Can someone give me a step by step reminder please? > >> > >> Dave Mawson. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely > those of the > >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai > Squared. > >> > >> For membership options, visit > >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window- > eyes.com/clgilland07%40gmail.com. > >> For subscription options, visit > >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window- > eyes.com > >> List archives can be found at > >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window- > eyes.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely > those of the > > author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > > > For membership options, visit > > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window- > eyes.com/carogsmith%40embarqmail.com. > > For subscription options, visit > > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window- > eyes.com > > List archives can be found at > > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window- > eyes.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those > of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai > Squared. > > For membership options, visit http://lists.window- > eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window- > eyes.com/slerythema%40gmail.com. > For subscription options, visit http://lists.window- > eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at http://lists.window- > eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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