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. -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of mbern6...@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:19 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org 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? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
