Music lovers probably got hundreds of CDs lying about the house. By making digital copies of these CDs, you'll be able to ensure that your entire music collection is availale on PC or Mac. There are different software programs that are capable of copying (rip) the audio tracks from a CD and place them on your computer as a MP3, WMA, or other audio file format.
Rip CD's by Using Apple iTunes
Rip CD's by Using Window Media Player
Microsoft Windows users can use the included Windows Media Player to rip or copy audio CD's to their PC. To Rip CD, open the windows media player. Click the Rip button at the top of the window. Insert the audio CD you want to rip and click on Start Rip button in the bottom right of the window.
By default windows media player saves all ripped songs as WMA file format, if you prefer to save songs in MP3 format. Follow these steps
Click Tools (Press > Options > Rip Settings > Format > select MP3. You can also change Audio quality by increasing bit rate but it also increase file size.
Click Tools (Press > Options > Rip Settings > Format > select MP3. You can also change Audio quality by increasing bit rate but it also increase file size.
Rip CD's by Using Apple iTunes
Apple computers running Mac OS with iTunes installed on their computer are also cable of ripping their audio CD's using this program.
open iTune and insert the audio CD into the computer. Once inserted iTunes should prompt you if you want to add the CD to your music library. If you do not get this prompt highlight the CD under devices and click the Import button in the bottom right-hand portion of the screen.
open iTune and insert the audio CD into the computer. Once inserted iTunes should prompt you if you want to add the CD to your music library. If you do not get this prompt highlight the CD under devices and click the Import button in the bottom right-hand portion of the screen.
By default iTunes saves all ripped songs as AAC format but if you want it to make MP3, follow these steps.
In iTunes > Edit > Preferences > Advanced Tab > Importing Tab > Select MP3 encoder. You can also improve songs audio quality by change in bit rate from default to high i.e. 192 kbps or 320 kbps.
In iTunes > Edit > Preferences > Advanced Tab > Importing Tab > Select MP3 encoder. You can also improve songs audio quality by change in bit rate from default to high i.e. 192 kbps or 320 kbps.
Note : Connect to the Internet and let the program go online to detect and fill in all track and artist information while ripping CDs.
Other Solution : Below are some additional great examples of software programs used to rip an audio CD to your computer for free.
CDBurnerXP
CDBurnerXP