Ripping CDs in Windows With physical CD players becoming increasingly rare, the best thing to do is to ‘rip’ your discs.

First, for those of you who are new to this topic, ripping CDs means copying the music files off compact discs so you can play the music from your computer or other devices like your phone or tablet.

As a DJ I finally got sick of hauling around 1200+ cds to events, so I've converted most of them using Lame and stored them on a rack-mounted PC. I'm still working on ripping the rest and ...

RCA's computerless ripping systemThe fact that you're reading this blog says you have (or at least have access to) a computer. Chances are you've also ripped a CD to MP3 files on your computer ...

However, their computer which currently dual boots Vista Home Premium SP1 and XP Home SP2 is giving me grief. Whenever I try to rip a CD in vista it always fails.

In an effort to combat alleged Internet piracy at the source, the record label BMG said it will work with a security technology provider to create copy-protected CDs.