Ripping CD

GT60

Hi is it still possible to Rip a music cd that I want to back up to my pc?

Now that's what I call a massive party that I want to buy from a local store instead of Amazon.
I think I read there are not ripable anymore and my only option would be to download it from Amazon.
Thanks

googler

If your PC has an optical drive, or you can buy a USB optical drive for it, then Yes. 

Download EAC, dBPoweramp, or any other ripping software, and rip it as WAV or FLAC files.

GT60

Sorry I forgot to say it has an optical drive and I would use WMP for the ripping and playing the music.
I do also have " Any video converter" 
Thanks 

SebC

Music CDs should be able to be ripped quite easily, after all, they have to be able to be read by all those 20-year-old cd players as well, so you won't find any hardware encryption on the disk, the only issues you might come across is DRM stuff on the music player on your PC, if so just use another program or rip to a suitable format such as WAV, then convert to MP3

Neil_Jones

Windows Media Player will do it.

Or if you buy the CD from Amazon you can download an MP3 version from your My Accuont section.

There is no provision in the Red Book for copy protection on audio CDs.  Any that is present makes them non-standard and not eligible to bear the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo.  These are all bodged solutions added by the record companies to try and limit copying, all of them have failed and some were more high profile than others - the so-called "Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal".  All of those disks were recalled, replaced, treated as "faulty merchandise" and once the law became involved for potential computer misuse, Sony changed their tune.

GT60

Thank you everyone 

cx6

I haven't done it for a while, but remember you used to have to download lameenc.dll if you wanted to rip at a bitrate higher than 128.

May have changed now of course.

Neil_Jones

Well to be honest it doesn't really matter what bitrate you rip to MP3 wise, it will always "suck" to an extent compared to the original CD, because of the way the process works.  Upon converting to MP3 the reduced file size is because of the lobbing away of redundant material that that most people can't hear.  However like most things its only as good as the weakest link in the chain, which may be your speakers.

Re: lameenc, Windows Media Player has been able to encode at 192kbps since at least 2009, but LAME was a required download for third party audio editors like Audacity, Goldwave and friends as it couldn't be bundled for patent/copyright reasons, but that's all expired now so Audacity at least has it all built-in.

a WAV file is better audio quality than an MP3 file (as its uncompressed), but isn't a 100% high quality reproduction, plus it takes up an awful lot of space.  FLAC is probably better in this regard - file size is reduced by up to 60% compared to the original raw file - and supposedly is closer to CD quality but I wouldn't know about that.

Belenus

Neil_Jones said:a WAV file is better audio quality than an MP3 file (as its uncompressed), but isn't a 100% high quality reproduction, plus it takes up an awful lot of space.  FLAC is probably better in this regard - file size is reduced by up to 60% compared to the original raw file - and supposedly is closer to CD quality but I wouldn't know about that.

FLAC is lossless so on replay it is identical to the original CD.

EssexExile

The op wants to rip "Now that's what I call a massive party", I don't think technical discussions about sound reproduction are really needed.

cx6

I always say you can take away the booze and the food but as long as you've got good sound reproduction...