

Read / store album information from/to the cdplayer. CDex also supports many audio file tag formats like the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, which can be automatically inserted as part of the ripping process. In addition, WAV files on the hard drive can be converted to a Compressed Audio File (and visa versa). You rip the tracks (or the whole CD even) to. Otherwise it is much better to just rip the tracks from the CD using ripping software like CDex or EAC - even iTunes can do this job for you. The Windows MP3 encoder (Fraunhofer MP3 encoder) Why are you recording from a CD - the only reason for that is if the CD has DRM (Digital Rights Management) on it. Many encoders are supported, to name a few: The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder.

Multiple options for encoding too, if you want to go direct to MP3 or whatever, instead of WAVĬDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility.

Choose this option if you have a lot of files that won’t fit on a single CD because a data DVD has a lot of space.Ĭapacity is about 4.Its got a huge feature set, more than most others I’ve seen, and can compensate to some extent for jitter. The device must support the file types that you add to the disc, such as WMA, MP3, JPEG, or WMV. You can play a data DVD on PCs and some DVD players. Choose this option if you have lots of music and a CD or DVD player that can play the file types you add to the disc or if you want to back up your media.Ĭapacity is about 700 megabytes (MB), or roughly 8 hours of music The device must support the file types that you add to the disc, such as WMA, MP3, JPEG, or Windows Media Video (WMV). You can play a data CD on PCs and some CD and DVD players. This table helps you decide what type of disc to use.Ĭhoose this option if you want to make music CDs that you can play in your car, on your stereo, or on your PC. To decide which kind of disc you should use, you'll need to think about what you want to copy, how much you're copying, and how you want to play the disc. With Windows Media Player, you can burn three kinds of discs: audio CDs, data CDs, and data DVDs.
