here's the el cheapo rip method:
Your windows computer has 'sound recorder' built in. If you try to record more than 1 minute it stops. BUT you can trick it to record longer (limited only by your RAM since sound recorder saves the whole file to RAM before sending it to hard disk). Record a minute of garbage or anything. Thne go to sound recorder Effects from the top menu bar and select 'decrease speed. Voila, your recording just grew to 2 minutes. Do this again and again until you either run out of ram (you;ll get a message) or have a long enough file to contain the song you want to rip. Save this as 'template'. NOw to record a long file of anything,CD, radio show, or whatever first open 'template' and you have a free sound recorder capable of recording long stuff. (I regularly do 15 minute chunks of my favorite blues radio show with 256M RAM machine). To record from CD go to windows volume control and open the recording controls under OPTIONS / PREFERENCES, and select CD AUdio as the input source.
REMEMBER: if you want to make a CD to play on a common audio CD Player, you MUST use 22,050 samples/ 16 bit / stereo as your format. (sound recorder PREFERENCES settings - you can convert formats on an laready saved file here as well) Computer will play any format, but not home audio CD player ... now you can edit those ripped songs in sound recorder to cut out talking at beginning and end, correct source CD table of contents errors, etc.
) well here goes. I want to record songs off from a cd but want to use my cd rom/burner in my computer. Is there some way of doing this? If any one can help it would be great. Thanks.
