[Stephen.]

Does anyone know how to put tracks off a CD onto the hard drive so that I don't need the CD to play them back?

Weeman

[Magicman]

You need a CD ripper such as CD-Ex to take the information off the CD and save them as MP3's.

Go to download.com for rippers

WARNING - not all CD's nowadays will rip as the have protection tags on them so you just get fuzz. If this is the case then you need some sort of recorder such as Cool Edit (get a free copy from syntrillium.com)

[Uglybob]

if you download the latest copy of windows media player it can do that

[Stephen.]

windows media player can do that

I have that but then how do I go about taking them from the Media player and putting them onto the hard drive?

[TJD]

yo. the best thing 4 that is realONE player (tm) It copys cd audio to mp3 wheras windows media player saves files as .wma

[Stephen.]

Cheers TJD.

[Stephen.]

you need some sort of recorder such as Cool Edit

I've downloaded the Cool Edit recorder but when I record for example something playing in Media player there is some really bad interference or background buzz but whatever it is... it's bad.
Anybody help?

[Magicman]

You need to adjust your recording settings.
If you are recording from a media player you need to -

- Double click on the volume tab on the bottom of your screen
- Choose 'Options', 'Proporties' and 'Recording'
- Click OK
- Select 'Stereo Mix'
- In Cool Edit press record and play the source (PS test the level (bottom) should be about -3. If it isn't just change the volume on the previous volume settings)
- There you go

I still think that ripping a CD is easier but you will have to do it this way if the CD is copyrighted.

[Magicman]

Post if you need any further help

[Stephen.]

It wasn't actually for the ripping bit it's just that I've been looking for a decent FREE sound recorder for ages and I've finally found one.
Thanks for the help coz I needed to know that anyway.
Nothing ever seems to work first time on this damn computer - Ah well cheers!

[Stephen.]

NOW I NEED FURTHER HELP - Basically I don't have the "Stereo Mix" option so I tried turning all the things down a bit but nothing helped and in the background when I record it has a sort of sqealing sound

[Magicman]

Sorry I have no idea but if I find out how to solve it I will let you know

[Uglybob]

do you not have to pay for real one

[Stephen.]

Ok, thanks Magicman.

I don't think you do have to pay for the player uglybob, it's just the Big Brother live coverage you have to pay for.

Weeman

[Magicman]

Weeman if you're copying from a cd then at the bottom of cool edit you should be able to record by playing the cd through that. Just change the recording selection to cd on the volume adjustment and play the cd play clicking the play button.

If you haven't got the cd player options at the bottom of cool edit then press the button at the top of a cd (this may be diabled on the free copy)