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I love music! I have hundreds of CDs in my collection, a few of which have survived since from the late 1980s. I have an original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Foo Fighters debut album, Bush's Sixteen ...
Q. I have a mountain of music CDs that I want to have transferred to my iTunes, but I don’t have the time to get it all in. Are there services out there that will do this for me? — Rob A. The ...
From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...
Got too many CDs about the place? Create a music server filled with their contents and listen to them anywhere.
I had an email exchange with a reader last week about replacing a small CD player. He asked me for a CD player recommendation and I had to tell him that I don't really play CDs since I've ripped all ...
It takes forever to rip a CD - so formatting your entire music library for iPod or PC can be a real pain. Enter music-ripping services. You give them your CDs; they dupe 'em, tag 'em, and load 'em ...
As a DJ I finally got sick of hauling around 1200+ cds to events, so I've converted most of them using Lame and stored them on a rack-mounted PC. I'm still working on ripping the rest and discarding ...
Like many of you, I've been ripping my CDs for years. I have thousands, and everything worked fine until my most recent problem. I'm running out of space. Don't tell me about cheap hard drives. I've ...
I've been ripping CDs to my PC for years now using the various methods and versions of iTunes, Windows Media Player and whatever-software-used-to-be-in-vogue. At first I was manually organizing, ...
Donald Bell shows you how to use iTunes for transferring a multiple-CD audiobook to your iPod, while keeping tracks and chapters in their correct order. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell ...
The fact that you're reading this blog says you have (or at least have access to) a computer. Chances are you've also ripped a CD to MP3 files on your computer. But there are plenty of people out ...
Switching from CDs and DVDs to digital equivalents is a great way to unclutter your life, but what do you do with all your outmoded discs once you’ve transferred their contents to your computer? In ...