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The CD ripper runs in your devices to rip out the digital audio tracks directly from the audio CDs to MP3 or WAV audio files. CD Ripping software is easily available in the market. The users can try the free version of the CD Ripper before purchasing the premium version of the software. I'm a dinosaur- I have thousands of CD's, and I'm tired of carrying them around all the time. It's time to just get them all on a good external SSD. Since I'm a bit if an idiot, I have a few questions: What's the best CD ripping software? Is there any special way I should make a folder or directory on the external drive?

This tutorial will show you step by step how to rip music from an Audio CD to your Windows 10 PC.

The steps on this page will show you how to copy music from your Audio CD to your computer's hard drive in MP3, WMA, WAV, or FLAC audio format.

Methods:

Windows Media Player (MP3, WMA, FLAC, and WAV)
Exact Audio Copy (EAC) (Only FLAC)
fre:ac (MP3 and FLAC)
VLC (MP3 and FLAC)

Ripping an Audio CD is a good option for backing up your CD music collection, listening to songs from your CD on a portable music player or mobile phone, or recovering music from a damaged CD.

To rip an Audio CD, you'll need a CD drive and a CD ripper. A CD Ripper (also known as CD grabber, or CD extractor) is software that copies and converts audio tracks from an Audio CD to a computer in standard audio file formats, such as MP3, WMA, WAV, or FLAC.

What does ripping a CD mean?

Ripping a CD is copying the contents of a CD to a computer.

What is the best audio format to rip a CD?

The best audio format to rip an Audio CD is a lossless audio format, such as WAV, FLAC, ALAC or WMA Lossless.

Does ripping a CD affect the CD?

Ripping a CD will not affect the CD in anyway.

Where is the “Rip CD” button in Windows Media Player?

When there's an Audio CD in the CD drive of your computer, the “Rip CD” button will appear in the top menu of Windows Media Player (see image below).

How to rip an Audio CD in Windows 10 using Windows Media Player

1. Insert the audio CD you want to rip into the CD drive of your PC.

2. Open Windows Media Player.

Three ways to open Windows Media Player in Windows 10:

Click on the start menu button, scroll down to the letter W, click on Windows Accessories and then click on Windows Media Player.
Enter WMP in the search bar (or Cortana) and then click on Windows Media Player when it appears.
Press the [Windows] + [R] keys on your keyboard, enter wmplayer.exe and press [Enter].

3. In the left sidebar, you click on your CD (e.g., AlbumName (F:)).

4. Click on Rip settings, go to Format and choose MP3 or another audio format, like WMA, WAV or FLAC. FLAC and WAV offer better quality.

5. Click again on Rip settings, go to Audio Quality and choose 320 Kbps. Note: If you've selected the WAV or FLAC audio format, then you don't have to select a quality setting.

6. You can uncheck the songs you don't want to rip to your computer.

7. Click on Rip CD located next to Rip settings at the top.

Windows Media Player will now copy the music from your Audio CD to your computer.

Windows Media Player will save your CD in the Music folder on your PC.

How to rip an Audio CD to FLAC in Windows 10 using Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is one of the best (probably the best) CD rippers available. And it's completely free.

You can download Exact Audio Copy from FOSSHUB, here.

First, you'll have to setup Exact Audio Copy.

You'll only have to set it up once.

Setup Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

1. Open Exact Audio Copy.

2. Make sure the CD drive of your PC is selected. You can find the drive selection menu in the top left corner of EAC.

3. Insert the CD into the CD drive of your computer.

4. When the “Configure AccurateRip” window appears, you click on the Configure button, and AccurateRip will configure the CD/DVD drive of your computer.

It will only take a few seconds.

It will make the CD drive work properly with EAC.

This configuration only needs to be done once. Afterward, the drive will stay configured.

AccurateRip improves Audio CD ripping by verifying ripped tracks against an Internet database, making sure they're error-free.

You'll need an older more popular CD to activate the AccurateRip plugin.

Just try to find a CD that makes the “Configure AccurateRip” window appear when you insert it into your PC.

There are a lot of CDs in the calibration database. You can use pop, rock, hip hop, and other classics to configure the CD/DVD drive of your PC using AccurateRip.

If the “Configure AccurateRip” window does not appear, you will need to find a CD that makes it appear, and after the configuration, you can insert the CD you want to rip.

When the AccurateRip configuration is complete, a small confirmation window will appear.

5. Click on the OK button.

You will now see the tracks of your CD in EAC.

6. Click on EAC in the top left corner, and then click on EAC Options.

A “EAC Options” window will appear.

7. Click on the Extraction tab.

8. Make sure the settings on the Extraction tab are exactly like in the image below.

9. Click on the General tab.

10. Make sure the settings on the General tab are exactly like in the image below.

11. Click on the Tools tab.

12. Make sure the settings on the Tools tab are exactly like in the image below.

13. Click on the Normalize tab.

14. Make sure the Normalize option is off. This option is usually off by default.

15. Click on the Filename tab.

16. Here you will see various examples for filenames. Type whatever filename scheme you want into the Use various artist naming scheme field. See image below for an example.

17. Make sure the Replace spaces by underscores option at the bottom is disabled.

18. Click on the OK button at the bottom of the settings window.

19. Click on EAC in the top left corner, and then click on Drive Options.

20. If an information/warning window appears, you click on the OK button.

A “Options for drives” window will appear.

21. Click on the Extraction Method tab.

22. Enable the Secure mode with following drive features option.

23. Make sure the Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature and Drive caches audio data options are enabled.

24. Click on the Drive tab.

25. Click on the Autodetect read command now button, and wait till the read command process is complete, and a read command is selected. Your selection might look different than mine. It depends on the CD drive.

26. There are four more options, but you should only select the options if you know your CD drive supports these options. If your CD drive doesn't support the options, or you don't know, then just leave the options unchecked.

27. Click on the Offset / Speed tab.

28. Make sure the settings on the Offset / Speed tab are exactly like in the image below.

29. Click on the Gap Detection tab.

30. At Gab/Index retrieval method, you select a method.

31. At Detection accuracy, you select either Accurate or Secure. I select Secure here.

32. Click on the OK button at the bottom of the settings window.

33. Click on EAC in the top left corner, and then click on Compression Options.

A “Compression Options” window will appear.

34. Click on the External Compression tab.

35. Enable the Use external p

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