Ripping with Windows Media Player

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Ripping with Windows Media Player

Post by dj_ultima_the_great » Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:49 pm

My apologies if this has been asked before, but my forum search came up nil. Maybe I'm not using the right words.

Anyway, WMP can rip audio, and it had a "lossless .wma" option. Out of curiosity, I tried it once. This turned a nine minute song into a 42.7 MB file. Not unexpected. However, upon playing the file in WMP, I heard occasional glitches. What I want to know is whether this is a result of the ripping process or the CD's protection. If it helps, I was using Matchbox Twenty's "Mad Season" album.

If there's some solution to this, please share it. If not, I'm perfectly content to continue using the guides.


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Post by gangstaj8 » Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:34 pm

It could be the length of the song, IMO, WMP isn't very good with ripping or burning. I would suggest downloading the stable version of CDex and ripping your song directly into .WAV format. Might end up being a little bit larger than the lossless .WMA though.
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Post by 808-buma » Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:18 pm

gangstaj8 wrote:It could be the length of the song, IMO, WMP isn't very good with ripping or burning. I would suggest downloading the stable version of CDex and ripping your song directly into .WAV format. Might end up being a little bit larger than the lossless .WMA though.
yup, what ganstaj8 said... I normally use cdex for all my cd ripping to WAV files with no problems (except when I forget to rip to WAV and accidently rip to MP3 :shock: ). It's free, quick and you'll have an uncompressed version of your song. pretty kewl

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