Ripping FRm CDs

[adaywayne]

[COLOR=DarkGreen]Re the recently closed thread, for my edification can someone tell me how one rips using the Converter only (i.e., without using the Audio CD Input feature).
I must be a bit slow today....or lazy.
Arnie[/COLOR]

[ChristinaS]

Re: Ripping FRm CDs

[COLOR=DarkGreen]Re the recently closed thread, for my edification can someone tell me how one rips using the Converter only (i.e., without using the Audio CD Input feature).
I must be a bit slow today....or lazy.
Arnie[/COLOR]

Your cd in the cd drive is like any other folder on your hard drive.
So you open WIndows Explorer, navigate to the cd drive, click on it, and select the tracks you see listed, right click, Convert to and that starts dMC. of course the file names will simply be Track01.... but you can change that with the Rename files button or later, after the conversion. There will not be any of the tag information that you'd get from dMC Audio CD Input and the freedb database. Also you can't use the cd drive as a dstination folder for your output, nor can you use the option to delete source file after conversion (you shouldn't anyway, biggest mistake people make most of the time).

[adaywayne]

Re: Ripping FRm CDs

Your cd in the cd drive is like any other folder on your hard drive.
So you open WIndows Explorer, navigate to the cd drive, click on it, and select the tracks you see listed, right click, Convert to and that starts dMC. of course the file names will simply be Track01.... but you can change that with the Rename files button or later, after the conversion. There will not be any of the tag information that you'd get from dMC Audio CD Input and the freedb database. Also you can't use the cd drive as a dstination folder for your output, nor can you use the option to delete source file after conversion (you shouldn't anyway, biggest mistake people make most of the time).

Hmmm.... that's what I thought, but it doesn't work for me. I follow your steps and select "converted music" for the destination file, but when I click on "Convert", I get the error messgage, "The file 'D:\Track01.cda' could not be opened. Track 1 not found on CD Disc."
Arnie

[neilthecellist]

Re: Ripping FRm CDs

try using the Trial Version (or if you own it) alcohol 120% from http://www.alcohol-soft.com . Make a CD image of it, mount it to a virtual drive, and see if you can rip it from there. Hope this helps Arnie.

[ChristinaS]

Re: Ripping FRm CDs

Hmmm.... that's what I thought, but it doesn't work for me. I follow your steps and select "converted music" for the destination file, but when I click on "Convert", I get the error messgage, "The file 'D:\Track01.cda' could not be opened. Track 1 not found on CD Disc."
Arnie

Can you play the cd?

[neilthecellist]

Re: Ripping FRm CDs

lol, wait, are you using the dMC Audio CD Input thingy or are you using dMC Music Converter itself to convert?

[LtData]

Re: Ripping FRm CDs

lol, wait, are you using the dMC Audio CD Input thingy or are you using dMC Music Converter itself to convert?

He's using dMC itself to see if it will work.

[adaywayne]

Re: Ripping FRm CDs

He's using dMC itself to see if it will work.

Thanks LtData. It helps to read the label on the bottle , doesn't it? And to answer Christina's question, yes, I can play the CD and rip it with Cdex and/or with Audio CD Input.
Arnie