I've been a Plextor fan forever, and I've got an old rig I use just for burning where the drive I use for extracting (an UltraPlex 40X SCSI CD-ROM) seems to have finally died.(I've updated the ...

How to Rip CDs With Windows 11’s Updated Media Player App For most readers, this section will only be of interest once Microsoft adds CD ripping to the released version of the OS. Right now, it ...

Yes, there are alternative applications. I use freac to rip CDs on Windows, and it does a great job. On Linux, K3B is a KDE-based CD toolbox, and my favorite burning tool. K3B can also be used to ...

SunnComm said a version of its new "secure burning" technology is already being tested by BMG Music Group, the world's fifth-largest record label and the most aggressive to date in pushing CD copy ...

The built-in DVD burner reads CDs at up to 32x; this translates, on my Mac Pro, to an average of about 15x ripping in iTunes. So I bought a cheap CD-R drive (not a DVD/CD drive) that reads CDs at ...

One area that Toast has all to itself is burning in the Video CD (VCD) format. Toast has long been able to burn VCDs — about an hour’s worth of 320-by-240-pixel MPEG-1 video that will play on ...

Windows 11’s Media Player app isn’t the only way to rip CDs, and arguably it’s far from the best one for power users who demand more options like lossless audio. Connoisseurs generally ...

Ripping is the process by which a computer user imports music files from a CD to a computer. Burning is the process of moving those files to a new blank CD.

How to Rip CDs With Windows 11’s Updated Media Player App For most readers, this section will only be of interest once Microsoft adds CD ripping to the released version of the OS. Right now, it ...