How can you copy a music CD to your HD?

[miles]

I have two different programs to record CD's, but neither has an option to copy the entire cd to the HD. Any ideas?

 

[Aquila]

I have two different programs to record CD's, but neither has an option to copy the entire cd to the HD. Any ideas?

use the option
Make Disc Image
or Make ISO Image

depending on what software your using

 

[SweetCherry]

CDex works well.

http://download.com.com/3000-2140-9471595.html

 

[Guest]

 

[Lilith/Eve]

That trick is a fucking mess.

 

[S.Daedalus]

My Favorite.. is Easy CD-DA

lets you extract to MP3, WMA, WAVE.

And at all different bit rates.

http://download.com.com/3000-2140-10164696.html?tag=lst-0-1

good little app..and fast.

- Stephen

 

[miles]

CDex works well.

http://download.com.com/3000-2140-9471595.html

Thanks, Cherry

 

[SweetCherry]

Most welcome, Miles.

 

[The Heretic]

I have two different programs to record CD's, but neither has an option to copy the entire cd to the HD. Any ideas?

Clone CD will copy the entire CD to your HD as an ISO image which you can then use to create an exact copy. If you are looking to copy the contents of a music CD to your HD then one of the "rippers" would do the job. Easy CD-DA is one.

 

[Guest]

 

[TWB]

Don't erase your hard drive just for an old Osmond Brothers record, miles.

 

[I'mVan]

I use Music Match Jukebox. It's been good to me, I bought the key even!

http://www.musicmatch.com/

 

[QuickDuck]

I found a neat little programme called SimpleMP3 Maker which was put out by audiogalaxy... not sure but you might find it somewhere.

 

[Draco]

Goldwave (www.goldwave.com), one of the finest audio editors around. Get the MP3 AND ogg Vorbis plugins from their download page. OGG is a new format featuring better sound quality AND smaller file size than MP3, the new Winamp 3 now supports OGG VOrbis and MS have a codec for Win Media Player.

Example: a 4 meg MP3 at 128 kbits will become a 3.5 meg OGG vorbis at 128 kbits, with better quality (my opinion there, on my system the OGG sounds better than the same MP3)

 

[Shiner]

CDex works well.

http://download.com.com/3000-2140-9471595.html

This is the same one I use and I've got about 4gig of music on my hard drive, Miles you want to save it in Mpeg format (MP3) as that takes up a lot less room and if you ever want to burn a CD you can always use this program to convert MP3 to WAV files and burn them off to a blank CD.


P.S. if you ever burn a wav file CD set the burn speed low as you can because not all audio CD player's can read as fast as PC - CD/ROMS.

Any question's feel free to PM me.

 

[Captain Howdy]

this is why i like win-xp (pro) you put the music cd in an click the copy button, it copys the cd. an if you want it turned over to mp3, just hit the convert button. no running around to find programs. but for burning cds i love nero-burn.

 

[The Heretic]

this is why i like win-xp (pro) you put the music cd in an click the copy button, it copys the cd. an if you want it turned over to mp3, just hit the convert button. no running around to find programs. but for burning cds i love nero-burn.

Avoid Adaptec/Roxio Easy CD Creator; anything but easy, buggy and quirky as hell.

 

[Shiner]

this is why i like win-xp (pro) you put the music cd in an click the copy button, it copys the cd. an if you want it turned over to mp3, just hit the convert button. no running around to find programs. but for burning cds i love nero-burn.

Yep I use "Nero burning rom" to burn my CD's and although I found it a little fiddly to use it does the job.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Pyro Cakewalk was really good for me, but my new 'puter came with a ripper.

 

[miles]

Avoid Adaptec/Roxio Easy CD Creator; anything but easy, buggy and quirky as hell.

More like a piece of shit. There was a patch upgrade I downloaded not long ago that took me forever to straighten out.

 

[freakygirl]

I use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 platinum.. I love it. (I bought it)

The Adaptec Easy CD Creator that came on my computer sucks big time. I can't figure it out for the life of me.

 

[The Heretic]

I use Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 platinum.. I love it. (I bought it)

The Adaptec Easy CD Creator that came on my computer sucks big time. I can't figure it out for the life of me.

Adaptec and Roxio are one and the same thing. What you probably had was Adaptec 3.x or 4.x, and now have Roxio 5.0. That is what I have - 3.x & 4.x wouldn't even run on my computer, 5.x is buggy and quirky. I am not the only one either, a lot people give the big

to Easy CD Creator. Nero is supposed to be a lot better and that will be what I get when I buy a better CDR.

 

[freakygirl]

Adaptec and Roxio are one and the same thing. What you probably had was Adaptec 3.x or 4.x, and now have Roxio 5.0. That is what I have - 3.x & 4.x wouldn't even run on my computer, 5.x is buggy and quirky. I am not the only one either, a lot people give the big

to Easy CD Creator. Nero is supposed to be a lot better and that will be what I get when I buy a better CDR.

I haven't had any problems with 5.x.. but then.. maybe I don't notice them..

remember.. I'm an airhead. Unless someone points out there is a problem.. I don't know it's there.

 

[RhumbRunner13]

I might be wrong Miles, but I think you need a "Ripper". Maybe all the suggested programs have one in them. Some ripper programs are available for download online but I couldn't vouch for any.

Rhumb

 

[Draco]

Same experience here with Roxio....we once sold a brand new CD-RW drive to a client, it came bundled with Roxio, and it didn't even support that make/model of drive...(LG 48X16X48) GO FIGURE???

Theres only two in my books...NERO and CloneCD.