iTunes | Automate Your CD Ripping

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Ripping is the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk, typically from removable media or media streams. Digital audio extraction is a more formal phrase applied to the ripping of audio CDs. Ripping is distinct from simple file copying, in which, the source audio/video is not formatted for ease of use in a computer filesystem. For example, the hierarchy of files making up the audio/video data on a DVD-Video disc can be encoded into a single avi file. In addition, the copied data are often compressed with appropriate codecs. Ripping is often used to shift formats, and to edit, duplicate or backup media content.

Setting up iTunes

1. Go to Edit menu, on the Windows, or iTunes menu on the Mac and select Open Preferences.
2. Choose the General tab.
3. Click the “On CD Insert” menu and choose Import Songs and Eject
4. In the General tab panel, check “Connect to Internet when needed” .
5. Click the Importing tab.
6. Make sure “Play songs while importing” is turned off.

CD Ripping

After you’ve set the iTunes preferences insert the first CD and let the ripping process start. Sometimes when you insert a CD, iTunes will report that it can’t get the CD’s track name information from the Gracenote CDDB service.

In this case go to the Advanced menu and choosing Get CD Track Names. In general this will usually fix the problem. But if not,you’ll have to stop and manually enter the CD and track names. You can do this by selecting tracks and choosing File ? Get Info. It is an annoying process, but if you don’t do it, you’ll be left with a bunch of unnamed tracks.



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