Windows media player no longer can rip cds

hubb

I have tried Googling all kinds of solutions with no resolve. I am running Windows 7 home premium and suddenly I cannot play cds from clicking the disk icon in "computer" unless I right click and select "open" with windows media. Even when I set it to be the default player, it never remembers and always defaults back. When I open WMP and try and rip my cds (I could do this as of last week) it says "Windows Media Player cannot find the file. If you are trying to play, burn, or sync an item that is in your library, the item might point to a file that has been moved, renamed, or deleted." I then go to "options" and "Rip Music" to change the location of where the ripped cd will go but it is blank and pressing the change button is unresponsive. So basically I can't rip my cds.

forgotmyname

Much better software out there anyway. Audiograbber used to rip an entire CD and convert to any format in a couple of minutes.

You still use CD's??

Its all vinyl these days, going to be another 30 years before CDs make a comeback.

hubb

Audiograbber is buggy and ended up (just downloaded) taking ages to convert a cd and in the end it crashed as "not responding" so it's basically garbage.

that

Exact Audio Copy was much better than Audiograbber, but slower too. You may want it slower for better reads?

esuhl

that wrote: »

Exact Audio Copy was much better than Audiograbber, but slower too. You may want it slower for better reads?

Exact Audio Copy is the best ripper ever. It can read unplayable CDs -- it's really impressive. Don't bother trying anything else. :-)



http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

hubb

Thanks I have downloaded Exact Audio but still can't see a rip audio tool on the software like WMP. Another annoying thing about WMP is occasionally when I try and play a wav file I get a long delay with a"server execution fail" message at the end of the long wait.

DoaM

I've always used CDex for my ripping needs.

hubb

I give up with Exact audio as it doesn't read the cd info and doesn't write to MP3 when requested.

Back to my original question is how to get WMP to run normally again.

Head_The_Ball

If you are still unable to get WMP to work properly then try using FreeRip.

http://www.freerip.com

I've used it successfully for many years to rip my large CD collection to FLAC.

It will also rip to mp3 and a few other popular formats.


I don't play CDs on my laptop but I do use VLC to play digital videos and it can also play CDs.