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How to rip or convert old auido CDs to MP3 or digital format

Old habits are hard to break as they said, however, music of your generation old favorites music of yesteryears will always stay with you.

Such music, are hard to forget since the mold your young life or even such songs inspired you to get through difficult times and be who you are today. Or just simply a music of wonderful memories with friends and love ones.

Anyway, how to convert or rip CDs to digital format such MP3, WMA,  M4A or any other format that the converter supports.

To convert CDs, a CD drive or reader is needed. A built-in CD drive or an external USB-Disk Drive that can read CDs or DVDs.

In Windows 11 or Windows 10, these are the steps:

Step 1: Insert the Audio CD to the drive

Step 2: In the search are beside the windows logo, type: Media and from the search result choose or select the "Media Player".

Step 3: In the top left hand side of the Media Player, you will see the Album of the insert CD, it will either show the album name, or if Media Player will not be able to find the album name; the CD will be displayed as "Unknown".

Step 4: Click on the name of the album of the inserted audio CD.

 Step 5: At media player at the center of the windows where it shows "Play All", find the text the option "Rip CD",  beside "Rip CD" there is a button "Rip Settings" click these if you want to explore what settings are available. However, default settings are good enough.

Step 6. After clicking "Rip CD" the Media Player will start to do its task to convert the audio cd to digital format. A progress bar is shown on the screen, once everything is done the status bar will show "Rip Complete"

Step 7: Open windows explorer, or by pressing "windows key + e" together.  And  on the left hand side bar of windows explorer, select or click the "Music" folder.

Step 8. Double click the "Music" folder, and it will show the album that has been ripped and its on digital format. Click the song or select all the songs, then enjoy the good old days, reminiscence is a must to know how far you've come and be grateful with gift of life.

Below are the screenshots for the above steps:

 1. When the CD is inserted, the windows explorer will show something like this screenshot below:


2. Search for "Media Player"


3 & 4.  Show the album at "Media Player"



5. Rip the "audio CD"


6. Rip status bar, showing the progress or completed.




7. Shows "music" folder  at windows explorer.

8. Files after ripping the audio CD.



Enjoy the music, have fun!


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