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| 106429 | 2002-12-16 00:33:00 | I want to burn a couple of songs off a CD I own and include them on a CD mp3 comp. of various stuff I'm making for a friend... I use the bundled adaptec CD sftware, ME yet the song is always saved in Windows Media player and this is not Mp3 and thus AFAIK not burnable without reconverting somehow...how?:) am I missing something or is this another microsoft way of stopping me using my PC and files how I want? |
artpepper (1321) | ||
| 106430 | 2002-12-16 00:38:00 | try cdex to rip the track off the cd (http://www.cdex.n3.net/) media player is a pain for ripping cd's, don't bother useing it. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 106431 | 2002-12-16 00:49:00 | Windows Media Player is a pain? I use WMP9 on XP, and copy music in the Windows Media Variable Bitrate format set at medium quality... almost no loss of quality and quite good compression rates. I have copied most of my albums onto my computer, and the most painful thing is manually entering the details for each track (no internet on that computer, have to get network sorted out), but apart from that it's easy. It can take anywhere as short as a four minutes to copy 15 tracks off the CD, providing most of them are shorter than 5 minutes. | agent (30) | ||
| 106432 | 2002-12-16 01:01:00 | agent - i think you misunderstood yes WMP is fine for ripping them off a CD but try burning a song back onto a blank CDR - no go! bte I tried opening with WinAmp but WMP files won't play even after "opening with" thanks for the codex link too I will look at that now :) cheers |
artpepper (1321) | ||
| 106433 | 2002-12-16 01:09:00 | If you saved the files as WMA using WMP, then WinAmp 2.x and WinAmp3 will pick them up, just make sure that with WinAmp 2.x that you download the full install which includes WMA support :-) Cheers |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 106434 | 2002-12-16 01:22:00 | Using WMP9, you can just create a playlist and write it to a CD. There are even "auto playlists", and among them, one for making a playlist that will fill a CDR with up to 74 mins of music. I believe that in WMP9 Microsoft abandoned the Roxio add-in that limits CD writing speed to a very, very low speed (about 2x) unless you buy the full add-in... but possibly not, I haven't ever needed to write audio CDs. | agent (30) | ||
| 106435 | 2002-12-16 01:29:00 | >but possibly not, I haven't ever needed to write audio CDs. So what you're saying the is that you really don't know what you're talking about.... again ? |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 106436 | 2002-12-16 01:33:00 | ROTFLMAO Now now crozier, quit stalking him. FWIW, I think agent do actually know what he's talking about :P MERRRRRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! HOHOHO!!! |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 106437 | 2002-12-16 01:42:00 | >ROTFLMAO Now now crozier, quit stalking him huh? Who? Me? OK, I'll go to confession then! HOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHEHE! |
crozier (2004) | ||
| 106438 | 2002-12-16 01:50:00 | Yes, Im quite sure that works, Select your playlist to play and then it should be under the file menu. It was in 7 and 8, so it should be in 9 too, but 9 isnt a final release (Although I have downloaded the most recent one and it's not looking too shabby, but im a WinAmp fan thru and thru :-) Speed is slow from what I remember too. Your best bet would be to re-encode them using Tweak'es software and burn them using Roxio Easy CD-Creator, which allows for a lot more control over the CD (Like fades and track gap times etc). Merry Christmas to all! |
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