Hello all,<br><br>So I need to show my folks how to use itunes. However, their computer which currently dual boots Vista Home Premium SP1 and XP Home SP2 is giving me grief. Whenever I try to rip a CD ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had an email exchange with a reader last week about replacing a small CD player. He asked me for a CD player recommendation and I had to tell him that I don't really play CDs since I've ripped all ...

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 ...

Each time I look at a new MP3 player, I feel this urge to reboot my music collection—to sacrifice a weekend or two and re-rip all my CDs onto one system so I have everything in a consistent format.