Hello Mike,
Before trying to give some help, I have a question. Are you wanting to copy
whole cds or individual tracks or both? If what you really want is to
supplement your personal collection, then finding a piece of software that will
directly copy a disk would be your best bet. Try looking at
http://www.jaws-users.com or http://www.blind-computing.com for free or low
cost software to perform direct copying of a cd.
If, however, you want to access your music on your computer in .wav or some
compressed format such as .mp3 or .wma, you will first need to rip the tracks
from the disk to your computer. I can only give generally directions for using
WMP for this as it's not how I do it. You can use WMP or a variety of free or
for cost programs to performing the ripping part.
I think in WMP, you place your source disk in the disk drive, and go to the rip
menu in WMP. There you will have various selections to make as to quality and
format.. Generally speaking, the higher the sampling rate, the better the
quality, but the larger the file size. When you rip the tracks to your
harddrive, they will generally wind up in the My Music folder of you’re my
Documents folder. I believe that you can set WMP to automatically rip the
tracks of any previously unripped disk when you put a disk in your disk drive.
I'm going to beg off trying to describe how to burn disks in WMP, as I've never
really figured that out myself. I believe you should be able to find a
tutorial on either of the pages I previously provided.
Sorry if this is a bit sketchy, but the considerations are one you need to make
to help us give you more info. Use the sources of info at Jaws-users and
blind-computing, they're great. There is an exceptionally good tutorial on the
use of WMP.
As far as speed of burning, my experience has been that a lower burn rate than
the highest yields the best results. I would suggest medium or fast instead of
fastest.
Good luck starting out.
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Subject: Hi, I'm a new list member
Hello,I just subscribed to the pc-audio mailing list today, and just
wanted to introduce myself. My name is Mike. I live in the western New
York area, Rochester, NY. to be exact. Although I have good computer
skills, I’m no computer geek. I serve as a volunteer dj at a local
community college, to which I’m also a student of here in Rochester.
I’m interested in learning about how to burn audio cds, so that I can
supplement my existing physical cd library.
I'm currently using Windows xp and Windows media player 11. To be
completely honest, I've never, ever burnt a cd before in my life, and
don't know the first thing about doing that stuff. Sometimes digital
technology can be very overwhelming, even for a young person like
myself. If any of you have ever done it, could someone give me
step-by-step instructions, as to an accessible way to burn audio cds
that will play in any cd player, using wmp 11? The screen reader I’m
currently using, is Window-eyes 6.1. Basically, I'd like to know how to
burn an audio cd in wmp 11 using just the keyboard itself, I'd prefer
not to mess with the mouse. Finally, in windows media player 11, I’ve
noticed, that in the burn menu, I am given four options for the speed
of the burning process:
1. fastest
2. fast
3. medium
4. slow. Is it necessary to adjust the burn speed? And also in the
drop-down menu within this same dialog, it says, “add a list of all
burned files to the disc in this format. The top-most option in this
menu, is .wpl, and it’s selected by default. What does this mean? I'm
looking forward to talking with all of you on the list.
Mike
Rochester, NY.
P.S. Just for clairification, are the built-in utility found in Windows
xp and windows media player two different programs? Or is the utility
part of windows media player. I already know, that windows media player
automatically inserts seconds of silence between audio tracks, but is
there any way to turn that option off? For example, what if I’m burning
an album, which already has seconds of silence between the tracks. Is
there any way to prevent the player from inserting silence between
tracks when burning?
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