[newbee]

Hi there, I'm trying to rip CD's to MP3 files so I can put them on an external drive, I get as far as 'it can't deal with it in dgital and reverts to Analoge' I clicked on the help section and follwed the instructions to set it for digital but it still comes up with the same message! of course this is new to me, would I be better downloading some free software to do this? any advice would be appreciated.

[TheBigM]

I have no idea what's going on here.

But use windows media player to do this anyway, not windows media center.

[newbee]

Sorry it is the player version I'm using but won't procced beyong the error message advising it would now do it in analouge (spelling)!

[c4rv]

Have you had a look at the instructions here,

http://portables.about.com/od/newsan...p-with-WMP.htm

[newbee]

Hi again, I tried another CD and it ripped automaticly, I see in the instruction link this might happen all the time unless I untick it.

Thanks for the help

[newbee]

Was going fine but now taking about 20 mins per track, no idea what has slowed it down but may have overworked it as done about 10 cd's some with 20 odd tracks.

[emptybox]

Originally Posted by newbee

Was going fine but now taking about 20 mins per track, no idea what has slowed it down but may have overworked it as done about 10 cd's some with 20 odd tracks.

It's always possible there's some problem with your optical drive, or the data connection to it.

[1saintly]

Originally Posted by newbee

would I be better downloading some free software to do this? any advice would be appreciated.

Yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uNh5e3vqsE
http://www.freerip.com/screenshots.php
Untick the Freerip Addons when installing

[newbee]

well, once it closed down and I re-booted it worked fine until I put one of her love CD's to copy with 26 tracks, looks like it doesn't like big files.

[c4rv]

Originally Posted by newbee

well, once it closed down and I re-booted it worked fine until I put one of her love CD's to copy with 26 tracks, looks like it doesn't like big files.

it could also be the CD is copy protected. Also some commercial CD are manufactured slightly out of spec to defect copying.