mod day eqiv of a mixed tape?

[paddy11]

Bit of a technophobe, but will try to explain what I want! I have lots of music tracks on various cd's that I would like to put together to listen to ON MY LAPTOP ONLY . Is there a way of loading in chosen cd and transfering fave track to a library or something, so that I can then play that 'library' of tracks back as a 'mixed tape' while I do my other work... don't have any mp3's/ipods etc...literally want to store fave tracks from existing cd's....am I making sense?

[factor-fiction]

Yes, as long as you have something like Media Player or Real Player on your computer.

[factor-fiction]

I've done it. I can't remember how but I do remember it was straightforward. I think I just copied all the CDS and then created a playlist of the tracks I wanted.

[ummmm]

Or download itunes. Insert your cd and itunes will copy it. Just untick the boxes of the tracks you don't want.

[ChuckFickens]

http://mp3.about.com/.../ss/WMP_ripcd_tut.htm

http://www.dummies.co...-player-playlist.html

[paddy11]

I know I havn't bought any extras for comp.... know I so thick, but are these things I would have to have added?...ie, presume they don't come as part of standard comp fittings, if they do, how do I know, if not how do I get them? (told you I was thicky!) thnks so much.

[VHG]

If you are using Windows Media Player you can "rip" the music off the CD and save it as an mp3 on your laptop.

Put the CD in the laptop. It will probably ask you what you want to use to play the CD. Close this window.

Open Windows Media Player and one of the options is rip the CD.

Before you rip the CD change the settings so it defaults to mp3 files, and set the quality as 192kbps. You can set the quality higher if you like but the files will be bigger and you probably wont notice much sound improvement.

Also set "copy protect music" OFF so you can play it on another computer if you ever get one.

All the files will be ripped one folder per CD, probably in your "music" folder.

Once you have all the CDs ripped then you can create a new folder and copy (or drag) the mp3 songs you want to be part of your playlist into that one folder.

If you then open that folder in Windows, so you are viewing all the mp3 files, you can just click on "play all" at the top of the window to play all the songs.

btw Windows Media player can be used to view all your CDs on your computer and if it recognizes the CD it will will download the sleeve of the CD and also the track names, rather than naming them track1, track2 etc.

[factor-fiction]

Yes- just put a CD in and see what happens

[paddy11]

thanks all, partic 'ummmm'...... will try your suggestion fifst....just one thing... how do I download itunes? (I'm cringing in the corner now!)

[VHG]

You dont need to download itunes, it is just one extra thing to do.

Windows Media Player is built in to Windows (assuming you are using Windows) so you already have it so why not use that.

[mibn2cweus]

factor30
Yes- just put a CD in and see what happens
20:31 Sun 11th Nov 2012

^ Sound advice. ^

If you're not sure of what to do next, return to this thread for additional support.

[factor-fiction]

Yes. My guess is it will throw up the option of Rip from CD to Windows Media Player or will default to that option and start ripping immediately.

Give it a go and let us know what happens