Ripping CD's

Recording music is done mostly from the computer if you want to store music to your MP3 player or iPod. You can do this with the most basic software that you can buy online.

How digital music recording works

Recording music digitally is nothing like storing music to a cassette from a cassette player. Because digital music is stored in files when you record music from your computer to a player or a CD, all you need to do is burn the music to the CD or copy and paste the file to your MP3 player.

What you need when recording digital music on home PC

You need a recording software that will allow you to rip or burn music from your PC to the CD. You also need a computer that meets basic specifications.

What specs your home PC should have to accommodate digital music recording software

Basic specs for digital recording of music will require a PC with Windows Professional 64 bit or Windows Vista Unlimited 64 bit. An Acer = 4000+ AMD 64 Athlon x2 processor with Dual core 4 gigs of ram is a good example of a PC that can do the job with ease.

If you are used to ripping CD's everyday, your patience must be long because ripping CD's requires a lot of your time. Yes, transferring songs from an original CD to a computer takes a lot of time and requires a spacious memory. That is why Grip is created to solve this problem. Grip is a program that allows transferring of your favorite songs to a computer easily and quickly. Plus, it reduces the song's size more than 10 times.

Press, on your keyboard, ALT-F2 then enter the word “grip”. Press enter. To begin the entire process, click Rip. You will be given different options such as Rip+Encode that will make an mp3, Rip Only that will make uncompressed wav files. This means wav files are bigger than mp3s. Simply select the first option, which is Rip+Encode, to rip all your songs. You can also select the songs that you will rip.

Grip is a friendly song ripper that allows you to convert it to aif, wav, flac, ogg, aac, mp4, mp3, and other formats. If you do not know how to do it, just follow my simple instructions. Or, you can explore the program because it provides all users a friendly Grip tutorial for beginners. Now you can rip CD's conveniently even if you are in a holiday sailing trip or you are on the way to your office. There's no need to wait painstaking hours just to rip your CD's; you just have to get Grip.

For the whole year, my sister's excuse for not throwing her old moth-eaten CDs was that she doesn't have time to go over them because she has so much cleaning to do. One could make a point that there'd be less cleaning if we just toss her stuff to the waste bin.

"So you're thinking this is junk?" Matilda said showing me a Britney Spears CD.

Matilda said that all her CDs are precious items, and she's only throwing them after she turns the tracks into MP3 files using her newly-downloaded ImTOO CD Ripper software.

I recognize this "precious items" argument because I've used it when I explained why I did not ditch my Harry Potter series filled with mildews. With regards to her new software, it allows a user to convert CDs into MP3 files easily by using the settings in the default format. I've seen her previewing the songs first before converting them into MP3s. You can visit pcworld.com if you need to download the free software.

"But you aren't listening to those CDs anymore." I said annoyed.

Her albums are so old that if you listen to them again, you'll hear Britney Spears making friends with the mildews and moths.

"They have meaning to me," she said. I thought, "I just don't know what the meaning is," as she said those words.

My sister Matilda will never get cured from her addiction -- CD ripping. After damaging my Samsung portable laptop with her annoying library of MP3 files, she's now using my newly-bought laptop as her musical editor. You could've knock me on a loop, but I'm not kidding. My sister recently installed a software that will enable music lovers (my sister's obsessed though) to convert their CDs into MP3 files without sending their CDs to a ripping company.

I am sitting in the sofa reading a Maeve Binchy masterpiece while my sister murders my laptop. I don't mind the angry rants of the singer about her boyfriend, because my brain processes music in the same way it processes informercials. Smart CD Ripper, according to my sister who is now creating a Madonna MP3 library, has a wide range of features that supports WAV, OGG, and MP3 file types. It also allows users to get information about the album they are ripping through FreeDB, a song info source in the web. The software also has a CD player in the package so the user can make sure that he/she is ripping the accurate songs before saving them to their MP3 players. I don't care how much the software is. But she'll be shelling out dollars if she destroys my laptop.

My sister is overly obsessed with MP3 players, iPods, iTunes, and every single thing that you can link with digital music. Her CD collection has driven me nuts! Her malicious MP3 files, which she illegally saved and stored in my Toshiba portable laptop, made me lose my marbles. I don't know with some laptops, but I have this feeling that my hard drive and processor is turning into sluggish sloths due to the files she put in them.

She's an autistic, spoiled brat, that girl! For the umpteenth time, I told her not to mess around with my things, or else! Anyway, as a concerned brother, I have this evil plan of confining her in a rehab because of her new addiction -- CD ripping. Now, based on a quick Internet search, "ripping," is the process of transferring or copying an audio or a video file from one form to another. As for my super-bitch sister, "to rip" means to illegally copy music files and save them to inflict disaster on your brother's notebook. There's this company called MusicRip that offers ripping services. Just send them your CDs, pay the right price, then boom! You got yourself a holocaust-inducing music library. Only a company run by assholes will offer such criminal service.

If you have caught the digital cold lately, then you're probably into CD ripping. CD ripping is a fast and easy way to rip, edit and convert CD tracks into MP3, WAV, WMA and other music formats. With this you can do away with bulks of CDs piling up and gathering heaps of dust in your attic. But to choose which CD ripping service to avail may just be complicated especially with the rise of these kinds of services. Let me make it a little easy for you.

Riptopia is a name that you can trust when it comes to converting CD tracks into digital music. Powered by Gracenote and Muze identification software, Riptopia is a one-of-a-kind CD ripping company that produces quality digital music that is comparable to those purchased over the Internet. The service is also ideal for any audiophile as the company offers the most comprehensive classical music data available, including composers, soloists, ensembles, conductors, and album art.

It offers Premium and Standard CD ripping services. The former is best for HiFi media centers as well as music servers. While the Standard service is good for Apple iPod music players and other portable MP3 players.

We all know that peer-to-peer or file-sharing has been made illegal. But how about CD ripping and encoding, is it likewise a crime? The legality of this practice called CD ripping, wherein you transfer music files from legally-purchased CDs into your portable multimedia devices, varies from one country to another. While some countries abide by the Fair Use Laws that allow individuals to make a copy of their music to share with friends, it is blurry in certain points.

Before the advent of digital technology, it was not possible to transfer files via digital processes. Back in the days, people use audio cassettes for their audio recording and video cassette tapes or VHS tapes were used to record movies. Due to its analog nature, successive copies from the original deteriorates. This is called generational loss which rarely occurs with digital processes. Because of this good side, some companies are getting concerned. More so with the proliferation broadband services in most households today. Offering faster speed for downloading multimedia files, people have limited access to anything from songs, movie clips, videos which come often with a price. As far as the US is concerned, the Fair Use Law allows CD ripping and CD burning as long as it's intended for personal use and not for profit.

Every year's end, I check all my stuff in preparation for a garage sale. Almost always I end up keeping my CD collection free from the scavenge. Some of the CDs are already gathering a lot of dust in the attic. I even keep my father's old collection somewhere up there, but they're not CDs but tapes. If only there's a way where I can rip all the songs from the CDs, store them into my iPod or PC, and make them ready for bargain-hunters (my precious CDs not included of course).

I read this press release from Ripping Revolution and I thought it saved my day. The company launched its new CD ripping service just this week. The great thing about this service is that they rip songs from CDs and convert them into digital format which is already iPod-ready or PSP-ready for that matter. Just log on to rippingrevolution.com, fill out an order form, wait for a rip kit to be sent to you and then mail your CDs to their San Marcos California headquarters via FedEx and all you need to do is to wait for a few days. The CDs are shipped back to your address.

Praises should be given to whoever invented the process of CD ripping. Millions of music fans around the world have been benefited by converting their CD collection into MP3 format. There are a lot of people who prefer to carry an MP3 player instead of a portable CD player because of convenience. CD ripping also contributed to the proliferation of downloadable software in the net that can convert the contents of a CD into MP3.

Some of the easy-to-use software are Easy CD Ripper developed by KongSoft which allows ripping, editing and converting audio CD tracks to MP3, WMA,WAV, etc. formats. It uses a variety of encoding system for conversion. This tool assures excellent outputs and boasts of its high ripping speed. Plus the layout is very nice. Another is the Alto-MP3 Maker developed by Yuansoft, has an efficient CD ripping capability. It offers a full CD audio playback function which allows easy ripping. Like the Easy CD Ripper, Alto-MP3 also produces high quality outputs with high ripping speed. These two softwares are just what a music lover needs to make copies of their favorite CD tracks and turn it into MP3 for easy listening.

Explain it to Her Gently

"What? Rip my CDs? Are you insane?"

Well, that's what you are going to hear from a non-techie like others. Do not laugh, maybe it's just in her cheerleading jeans. Can't you see she's blonde? (Just joking)

Anyway, give her an enlightening experience and explain to her the process of ripping CDs. Tell her that ripping CDs is the thing you do when you want to store the songs from your old but very wide CD collection into the computer. That way, you can listen to them whenever you open your PC and hear your favorite Britney Spears tracks while you browse the internet for right way of tweezing your eyebrows. Show her how you can convert the songs into MP3s so she can listen to it on her Apple iPod while she does her aerobics at the gym or how she can share it with her other friends through P2P sharing. Explain to her how she can also burn her selected songs so she can give it to her best girlfriend and they can share the marvelous wonder of ripping CDs.

Comfort her and say that nothing is going to hurt her Ashlee Simpson CD (except maybe you).

Musicians aren't the only people in the world bitten by the Ripping CD bug. In fact, it's not ripping CD that should cause an issue among us music-lovers, but the legality of selling a copyright that's not ours. Windows PCs, Macs, and other applications have purposely allowed CD ripping, with every intention to generate sales.

The psychological trend goes like this: you downloaded songs from a particular artist, owned them as your CD files, and became curious about the artist's other songs. Eventually, this curiosity has led you to buy the artist's albums that are not otherwise available for download. Better yet, if they were readily available, you felt it would be so much better to have the original version, with all the fancy packaging that went with it. For CD manufacturers, the ripping has led to the buying.

So let's not say that ripping CDs is altogether nasty. Music industries encourage ripping CDs because it boosts their sales. Why else would they include ripping capability in their applications? This goes to show, that you can't stash all the music in the world. To sell more, you need to share more.

There are movies out there that have soundtracks you want to listen to all day. Most of the time it's hard to look for them because some latest movie releases do not have their own soundtracks.

What you can do though is to rip audio parts of your DVDs and convert them into MP3s or any audio file you want. There is a hi-tech freeware in the Internet where it can teach you how to extract the audio parts of your movies and out them into your PCs or CDs.

I have CDs at home which I have already ripped. Personally, I prefer to listen to CDs than MP3s. I believe music in CD format have more quality to it. This is not proven yet though. But I couldn't resist the convenience of a tiny gadget versus something that always skips. Besides, I was having shoulder pain already from bringing loads of CDs.

So I decided to rip all my CDs and put them on my newly-bought MP3 player. Now I can enjoy music without body pain. Never mind the quality, I can't see the difference really.

Your CD collection can still be useful even when you’re already into MP3 players. Rip your CDs. Convert the songs in your CDs into MP3s, this way you can upload them to your MP3 players and enjoy their music. Looking and downloading music from P2P sites can take forever. Ripping CDs will only take a few minutes. I remember when I wanted to download some Bob Marley songs and my download was becoming too slow, I picked up my Exodus album and converted the songs into MP3s using a software in my PC. Now I have no problem listening to my favorite songs on my MP3 player. And my CD collection, which took me years to complete, is now much more accessible to me.