Hi, I'd like to know about the gold wolf program that you mentioned. Thanks.
Terri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:17 AM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player Hi Rosemary. Here's a few notes I put together for a friend on ripping CD's using windows media player 10. Hope they may be of some use. Now, for ripping losslessly. The good news is that the program is free and you'll probably already have it. It's windows media player. You will need to have media player 10 though to rip losslessly. The format I use is WMA rather than WAV. The WMA format has the advantage that it supports ID3 tags which WAV doesn't. The ID3 tags are used to hold information about the music such as artist, album name, track number, track title, genre, year released, etc. The WMA format also takes a little less space than WAV as it's compressed but compressed losslessly. What you'll need to do? 1. Start windows media player. 2. Press alt and T to open the tools menu. 3. Use the up arrow to find the options menu and press enter. 4. You'll now be in the player tab. Press shift & tab to move up to the list of tabs and then right arrow to locate the ripping tab. 5. Tabbing once will land you on the change button. Pressing spacebar or enter will open a dialogue that will allow you to change where you rip your music to. Initially this will be set to my music in the my documents folder. 6. Pressing tab again will land you on the file name button. This is where you can specify how you want your ripped music files to be named. The default is that you'll get a folder with the artist name and inside there a folder with the album name. Opening the album folder will reveal the tracks in the format track number dash track title. 7. Pressing tab again will land you in a combo box where you can choose the format of your ripped music. The choices are MP3, windows media audio, WAV or windows media audio lossless. 8. Pressing tab again will land you on a button where you can go and learn a little more about MP3 and WMA formats. 9. Pressing tab again will land you on the copy protect checkbox. Make sure this is unchecked otherwise you'll start having problems moving your music around from player to player. 10. The next checkbox is rip music when CD is inserted. This is very useful if you want to rip a number of CD's at a time. If you have media player started and this is checked, when you close your CD drawer with a CD inserted, it will be automatically ripped. 11. The following checkbox is eject CD when ripping is complete. This again is useful with the above checkbox so that you can keep feeding CD's into the computer and have them ejected to take out and put the next CD in. 12. Tabbing again will land you on a compare music formats. This is another informational option to go and find out more about formats and listen to some samples that demonstrate the differences in format. 13. Now you've probably noticed that I've missed a combo box while describing this. It's only seen if you have the MP3 or windows media audio format chosen and it let's you choose the quality of your ripped music. It doesn't show if you choose WAV or windows media audio lossless as these are always ripped at 100% quality. If you do want to use MP3 or WMA at lower bit rates, you can use the arrow keys to choose the quality. If you use your JAWS cursor each time you change the setting you'll see some extra information about the quality you've chosen. 14. When you've made all your changes tab to the OK button and press enter to save them. They'll remain as your default settings. Once I've ripped a CD I use a program called goldwave to set the volume so that all my ripped music is at the same volume level. You know how some CD's are quiter than others so this makes listening to shuffled music a lot better. That's probably another topic for another day if you don't currently use goldwave. Let me know if you're interested once you've started ripping some CD's and I'll cover this. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Block quote start ----- Original Message ----- From: Walter Ramage To: Kevin Lloyd Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:03 AM Subject: RE: I took the plunge Hi Kevin. I am really pleased that you now have a new player and especially that you are pleased with it, in the end that is the most important thing. From your description it is a little different from the model I have. I wonder if you have the model I could have got. That one was the same specs. as the one I have but the only difference in facilities was it had a colour screen whereas the model I have is black & white which you can imagine is fine with me. The model with the colour screen was £220 and it was foolish to pay an extra £70 for something I wouldn't be able to use nor appreciate. That model also had a slightly different facia layout. Anyhow I hope you have many hours of pleasure from it. I noticed your posting this morning on the Pc audio list. You have a very good way of explaining your ideas and you demonstrate an in depth knowledge of the subject. I wish I had a fraction of your knowledge but my computer knowledge was acquired on a need to know basis, that is if it didn't help me with my course then I didn't need to know it which was fair enough but has left me a bit lacking to say the least in necessary knowledge to use the computer to its full potential in the audio department. You mentioned the lossless programme for ripping Discs. does that programme do as it's title suggests and rips Disc to a Wav format without any loss of quality? If it is convenient for you could you help me out with this, that is how to use it and off-course firstly where to find it, This Assuming I can afford it. I am heading south tomorrow morning as I am going to visit York and see graham and Tracy but firstly I am heading for Manchester to visit Gail Brett and won't get back till Monday after noon. If you reply to this mail today I might have an opportunity to respond again but if I get it tomorrow morning I will be able to read it but won't have time to reply then as I will be heading for the station just after 10am. Anyhow Kevin, I am glad once again that you are happy with your new acquisition and it was my pleasure to be of assistance to you and which I will be any time you need it. Take care and look forward to hearing from you. Block quote start -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2006 20:19 To: Walter Ramage Subject: I took the plunge Hi Walter. Just thought I'd let you know that I took the plunge and bought myself a Zen 20GB player. I'm very pleased and impressed with it. It's smaller than I imagined, easily fitting into a pocket. It has a slightly different design to that you described to me, it seems they're subtly changing the design of these players all the time. This player has the same power and lock slider at the top left where the USB, mains adaptor and headphone socket are found. Coming down from the top of the player there's the screen and centrally there's the vertical touch pad where you can slide your finger up and down to change volume or select menu options by tapping the touch pad. On either side of the touch pad there are two touch buttons. On the left hand side there's a previous track and below that the backup key. On the right there's the next track and below that the menu key. The play/pause touch key is just below the display and above the vertical touch pad. You can press the left or right side of the play/pause touch key to move forward a track or back a track. There's no random button or any other buttons for that matter. The shuffle option is chosen from the menus. I have yet to make a note of the menu structures but they look navigable and I'm using the few options that I've learned so far with no problems. It sounds great and is easy to load. Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to describe the player to me. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Block quote end Block quote end Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemarie Chavarria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:04 AM Subject: ripping CD's with windows media player > Hi, everyone. I have a lot of oldies CD's that I'd like to put in the "My Music" folder. Has anyone had much luck with windows media player? If so, could someone please tell me how to rip my CD's? Would I have to have a special program to rip CD's? 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