As a DJ I finally got sick of hauling around 1200+ cds to events, so I've converted most of them using Lame and stored them on a rack-mounted PC. I'm still working on ripping the rest and discarding ...

It takes forever to rip a CD - so formatting your entire music library for iPod or PC can be a real pain. Enter music-ripping services. You give them your CDs; they dupe 'em, tag 'em, and load 'em ...

From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...

Like many of you, I've been ripping my CDs for years. I have thousands, and everything worked fine until my most recent problem. I'm running out of space. Don't tell me about cheap hard drives. I've ...

The fact that you're reading this blog says you have (or at least have access to) a computer. Chances are you've also ripped a CD to MP3 files on your computer. But there are plenty of people out ...

Gone are the times when we used to listen to music on CD players. While everything around us is getting digital, we want our music to be digital too. Keeping a pile of CDs is too old-fashioned, and we ...

While CDs might be deemed a little long in the tooth these days – especially by Apple, which removed drives from its devices a while back – many of us still have collections that we’d like to digitise ...

Music was first delivered on vinyl records, then on magnetic tape in one form or another, such as 8-tracks and cassettes. Optical media, better known as CDs, came later, and many wondered what would ...

If you use an iPod or iTunes, you're familiar with the process of ripping songs from CD to convert them from their uncompressed audio file format, AIFF, to a compressed file, usually MP3 or AAC. The ...

A fledgling effort to divorce compressed-audio portables from the PC continues with the introduction of Panasonic’s SV-SR100, a headphone portable that combines a CD player with a flash-memory player.