Copy songs of CD onto my PC?

**pete21** · #1 1st Aug 2008, 15:45

am trying to put my songs onto my pc of a disk
i have no problem when putting mp3's of a disk onto my pc
but im having trubble with this type of file CD Audio Track shortcut
the songs play perfect of the disk but wen i drag them of the disk onto my pc its just making a shortcut to the song wen i want to copy the song onto my pc

probably easy to do but av bin trying all sorts for hours

hope someone could help

**Carbon** · #2 1st Aug 2008, 17:52

Just use WMP or WinAMP to rip it?

**pete21** · #3 2nd Aug 2008, 05:17

i use winamp ill have a look on it

i would of tho you can just drag them off the cd on to desktop and it would make a copy of the song

**philthomas** · #4 2nd Aug 2008, 11:04

CDs are protected against copying ..... there are programs that will allow you t drag & drop, but the format would not be mp3 and an album for example that is not compressed will take up tons of space ... i.e upto 700mb per CD.

When you rip them, as Carbon suggested they will be compressed into either mp3 or wmv files, depending what program you use. Thes will be approx one sixth of the size, using average settings (128kbs).

**pete21** · #5 2nd Aug 2008, 14:43

thanks for that !

am using windows medial player 11 to rip them also you can take the copy writes off the songs when rip'ing them

thanks for your help !

i now have my albums on pc

rip them as mp3 to
thanks again

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Originally Posted by philthomas

CDs are protected against copying ..... there are programs that will allow you t drag & drop, but the format would not be mp3 and an album for example that is not compressed will take up tons of space ... i.e upto 700mb per CD.

When you rip them, as Carbon suggested they will be compressed into either mp3 or wmv files, depending what program you use. Thes will be approx one sixth of the size, using average settings (128kbs).