iTunes isn't the most accurate or most powerful CD ripper, but it's the best for most people with demanding digitizing needs.

Much as Apple and Amazon would be thrilled if you populated your iTunes library with nothing but tracks purchased from the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3, there’s a very good chance that you already have ...

I’ve got a lot of music in my collection, and some of it in box sets of varying sizes. From a 37-disc set of Schubert’s lieder, to an 80-disc set of all of Glenn Gould’s recordings, to a 98-disc set ...

Q: I have yet to really build a music file online. I have dabbled with Napster and iTunes, but really don't have much of a collection. I would like to begin ripping music CDs to my computer. It is ...

Learn how to rip CDs on Windows and Mac so that you can turn a physical format into a digital one. In ancient times—back in 2001—people knew how to do this, but much that should have been remembered ...

From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...

The New York Times covers how to rip a CD to one continuous track - like say, for an opera - in iTunes: The songs you want to join together must be adjacent to each other on the disc, which should not ...

Is there a way to rip an entire audio CD to a single M4A or M4B file with "chapter marks" at each track, instead if individual files? I don't have to use iTunes, but if there is a way to make iTunes ...

Music was first delivered on vinyl records, then on magnetic tape in one form or another, such as 8-tracks and cassettes. Optical media, better known as CDs, came later, and many wondered what would ...

iTunes static in "lossless" formats when ripping from CD-R MacFixIt reader Michael Allbritton reports a problem where extracting music from a CD-R audio CD in a lossless format results in static: "I ...

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