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

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 ...

Like many of you, I've been ripping my CDs for years. I have thousands, and everything worked fine until my most recent problem. I'm running out of space. Don't tell me about cheap hard drives. I've ...

Physical media and on-device music are making a comeback. A few instances of artists pulling their catalog from music streaming services can be all it takes to push people to try owning their music ...

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 ...

If you use an iPod or iTunes, you're familiar with the process of ripping songs from CD to convert them from their uncompressed audio file format, AIFF, to a compressed file, usually MP3 or AAC. The ...

Most of the ripping applications I've ever used would allow you to rip a CD as a single file. It's ancient but I've used EAC for years and I know for certain that is an option. You'll still have 26 ...

I had an email exchange with a reader last week about replacing a small CD player. He asked me for a CD player recommendation and I had to tell him that I don't really play CDs since I've ripped all ...

While CDs might be deemed a little long in the tooth these days – especially by Apple, which removed drives from its devices a while back – many of us still have collections that we’d like to digitise ...

Ok I'm TRYING (and failing) to rip an audio book so that I can put it on my MP3 player. Now I can rip it just fine with Windows Media player, except that the file format is less than worthless to ...

One common complaint about iTunes is that it does things that you don’t want it to do. For example, when you view music by artist, iTunes applies album artwork to the Artists list, but you don’t get ...