Editing Media Information

As we mentioned earlier, Windows Media Player automatically grabs the CD information from an online database. On occasion, you may have a music CD that has no listing in the database, so it won’t have been assigned with an album cover, track titles, or artist information. If this occurs, you will have to type in the artist information, upload an album cover, and type the track listings if it’s important to you to have this information in your library. 

Playing Your Ripped Music

Once you rip files, you can navigate to the folder where you stored them (by default the folder named Music on Vista) or you can access them directly through Windows Media Player. You can click the Library tab, select the album from the left hand side, choose an artist, or search for an individual song. 

If you double click the album icon, you will then be taken to all the songs on the album. You can then select the first track with a double click to begin playing the album.

Conclusion

Windows Media Player provides a very quick and easy way to rip your CDs onto your hard drive. Once you have your CD library on your hard drive, you can play your albums at any time without the hassle of swapping out CDs. The process only takes a few minutes per CD. Why not give it a try today? Since Windows Media Player 11 supports the MP3 file format, you can transfer your collection to MP3 players, flash drives or even back to CD so that you can play your albums on car stereos or other systems that support MP3.