How to rip CDs in Windows The simplest tool for ripping a CD in Windows 11 is Windows Media Player.

Microsoft rolled out app updates to Insiders on Windows 11, including adding the ability to rip CDs through Media Player.

New Windows Media Player app travels back in time, gains the ability to rip CDs Welcome news for anyone who's ready to retire their Sony Discman.

Having received CD playback support earlier this year, the new feature in Media Player lets users rip CDs to WMA, FLAC, ALAC, or AAC format, with the latter being the default setting.

Support for listening to CDs was only added to the Windows 11 Media Player in March. The new version being seeded with Windows Insiders ups the ante by letting users rip CDs.

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This can happen when you use third-party software to rip CD tracks instead of using Windows Media Player to perform that task.

Since I put together this new rig and installed Win7 on it, I've been using Windows Media Player to play backups of old mp3's and to rip CD's. In the past I've always used 3rd party software for ...