How do I listen to a cd successfully ripped by dbpoweramp via Windows 8.1

[cromwell]

I must first apologise for the question I am about to ask. I am a complete novice at all things audio and have just successfully downloaded dbpoweramp reference and perfect tunes. I successfully set up the cd ripper and ripped 3 cd's. The cd ripper confirmed a successful rip. I can see the 'files' in my Music folder but I cannot play them. I am offered the option to play in Windows Media Player but when I accept I get the windows media player window for a few seconds but then it cuts off. So could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong or what I haven't done? Also I had assumed that after ripping I would get a similar set-up to Windows Media Player with the albums displayed and able to be selected for playing, does dbpoweramp not have something similar. Any help would be gratefully accepted. Thank You.

[garym]

Re: How do I listen to a cd successfully ripped by dbpoweramp via Windows 8.1

Dbpoweramp is a ripper/converter not a player. For playing you need something like windows media player, iTunes, Winamp, foobar2000, etc. what format did you rip files to? Flac? Wmp may not play flac, not sure.

[cromwell]

Re: How do I listen to a cd successfully ripped by dbpoweramp via Windows 8.1

Thank you for your reply. I did rip in flac. You are right that windows media player does not play flac. I chose dbpoweramp mainly because it did offer me the option to rip in flac and I assumed that it would come with a player which would enable me to build up a flac library for future transfer to something like a Sony HAP S1. I wanted flac rather than wav in order to maximise disk space and to gain the best possible album data transfer. I will follow your suggestion and download foobar 2000. Thank you again.

[garym]

Re: How do I listen to a cd successfully ripped by dbpoweramp via Windows 8.1

Thank you for your reply. I did rip in flac. You are right that windows media player does not play flac. I chose dbpoweramp mainly because it did offer me the option to rip in flac and I assumed that it would come with a player which would enable me to build up a flac library for future transfer to something like a Sony HAP S1. I wanted flac rather than wav in order to maximise disk space and to gain the best possible album data transfer. I will follow your suggestion and download foobar 2000. Thank you again.

FYI. I do all my ripping to FLAC and I use foobar2000 as my PC playback system. So I agree with your choices.

[cromwell]

Re: How do I listen to a cd successfully ripped by dbpoweramp via Windows 8.1

Thank you again.