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What is a ripper, and how do I use one?
What is the best one? Don't they come with most cd burning software?

Thanks guys
Twist
 
if you mean CD ripper...

It's just a program that takes audio tracks from a CD and turns them into wav files and in some cases will give you the option of compressing right to MP3. There are lots of them out there, and most CD burning software has the capability to do this.

I use Audiocatalyst, but it's not free and you could probably find one for free that's just as good. If you have a CD-R drive it probably came with a CD creation program that will allow you to rip to a wav file at least.
 
twist....

audiograbber is a free version which is almost exactly like audiocatalyst (I've used both). The free version rips good quality but only 1/2 the tracks at a time. To grab all tracks off a CD you have to open the program - grab them - then close it down and re-open to grab different ones. The grabbing is random so sometimes you must go through the process several times to get all the tracks off a CD...

I was going to put in a link but can't remember where I found it. :(

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Thanks for all the help guys. I'm still real new at this, so I'm still a little confused. When copying a commercial music cd, does the data from the original have to be converted to a wave file before it can be burned to a blank? It's not burned to the new disk as a .wav is it? Could you save it to a new disk as a .wav if you wanted to; and if you did, would it then be playable in a cd player, or only on a computer?

Once again, thanks to all!

Twist
 
It depends on how you want to copy it...

If you have another CD drive in your computer in addition to the burner, you can duplicate the disc without ripping to wav files on your hard drive. However, I prefer to rip everything to wav files, then burn. Less likely to have a buffer underun or some other problem when burning.

When you burn a wav file to a CD as an audio disc, then it becomes a cda track that will play in a CD player. Most CD players that were made in the last few years won't have an issue playing CD-Rs, but there are some strange combinations of burners, players, and media that can cause problems. Most of time it's cheap media in combination with a certain burner or player. In any case, you want to make sure you are burning the disc as audio and not data. If you burn it as data you will just have a backup copy of the wav file.
 
cheap media...

Jon X is exactly right. Steer clear of cheap media especially if you want audio CD's that don't give problems in certain players. I bought some Imation discs at Big Lots for 29 cents a pop and had nothing but skipping on certain players.

I learned a painful lesson by burning 30 or so discs just to have them skip. Find ones that work for you in different players before you burn a bunch.

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