You can see where “Windows Media Audio” is highlighted as the default format in the middle of the window. Right click on the “Rip” tab along the top again, and this time navigate to Tools –> Settings… and click on the Rip Music tab: What you need to do is change the default settings for ripping audio content within Windows Media Player, which is easily done. But that’s not quite right, actually, because you’ll end up with more Windows Media Audio format music (files with “.WMA” which won’t work with MP3 players including both the iPod and Sony PSP). To copy all the music onto your computer, click on Rip Music along the top bar. Also note that every track is automatically checked. You can see that my test CD is the jazz album Philly Style by jazz music Jeff Lorber, and that WMP is showing every track by name, length of the track in minutes and seconds, artist, etc. Yeah, it’s a bit ugly, but select it and a second or two later the program queries an online CD information database to figure out album and track information, then all is good: Please click on the image for a full-size version This is done by right-clicking on the word “Rip” then selecting the right menu item: Maybe that works on your computer, but for me, I have to explicitly tell the Media Player to scan a specific hardware device to find the music CD. Insert a music CD, however, and nothing happens, even though the “Insert an audio CD” prompt suggests that somehow WMP should automatically detect and scan it. Of importance here is the last text line in the main window area it tells you where the MP3 files will be saved once the CD is “ripped” (a fancy word for ‘copied onto the computer’). Start it up, click on the “Rip” tab, and here’s what you’ll see: For this article, I’ll show Media Player 10 (WMP10, as Windows folk say). The first step is to launch Windows Media Player. (there are also audio file conversion tools worth mentioning, notably Smart Audio Converter)

First off, though, rest assured that while it’s definitely not recommended by Microsoft (for obvious reasons), the Windows Media Player can most definitely produce high-quality MP3 audio files from your favorite music CDs. This is a very common question, so let me step through it in great detail.

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