Recording CD to flash drive

[myzone1958]

     I'm trying to record a CD on to my flash drive so I can play it in the car but have no luck in doing so . Is there any free open programs for this ?

                                                                                                                                     Regards,
                                                                                                                                                         Greg

[Al Ram]

I suggest to google for "rip from cd"  there are several programs.   I used to rip from CD's but it has been a long time and i no longer use or have CD's.

Here is one option.  (i have not used it myself but it looks good).

http://www.nch.com.au/rip/index.html?kw=rip%20from%20cd&gclid=Cj0KCQjw37fZBRD3ARIsAJihSr0slIvCyVJsrZidcH1abEWFmvbeXMF1DPqstek_jA9fe1X2HqSj080aAvYfEALw_wcB

Once you rip the songs from CD you will have them in wav or mp3 format and then just copy to your flash drive.  I recommend to copy all melodies in mp3 format.

Hope it helps.

[myzone1958]

Thank you Sir

[whataguy]

This works great - found it and converted almost all of my CDs to USB. Now only the music I prefer and NO commercials. Don in MI

[alanclare]

This works great - found it and converted almost all of my CDs to USB. Now only the music I prefer and NO commercials. Don in MI

Don

What works great?

Al

[cliffordleo1965]

you can try windows media player. go to option set rip settings to mp3 mode. then set bit rate as you wish then start to rip cd when you need..
cliff

[overover]

I use "Audiograbber" to rip Audio CDs to MP3 format. This is a relatively old program (from good old Windows XP days). But it's easy to use, and it also works on Windows 10.


Best regards,
Chris

[Rick D.]

I just got this information from the Audacity help section.

Windows
Audio CDs may be ripped to WAV with Windows Media Player 11 or 12 (click Tools > Options > Rip Music and choose "WAV (Lossless)" in the Format dropdown in "Rip Settings"). Earlier versions of Windows Media Player are not appropriate for extracting CD audio for editing in Audacity, because they are unable to extract to WAV.

Alternatively the Windows version of iTunes (which is free to download) may be used to extract audio CDs to WAV or AIFF.

Mac
Mac users have a quick way to import CDs, because when a CD is put in the drive, the CDA tracks are mounted as AIFF files in the Finder. It's thus possible to either drag the AIFF files from the Finder into Audacity, or use the File > Import > Audio command, instead of extracting the audio.

Warning icon   If you import CD tracks into Audacity from Finder and save them as a Project, the CD must be present next time you open the Project, unless you set Audacity to make a copy of the data. To do this choose Audacity > Preferences: Import / Export and where it says "When importing audio files...", check the radio button: selected radio button Copy uncompressed files into the project (safer) (default setting).
Another possibility is to use Max, a free software CD ripping and encoding application. It has full support for encoding into the FLAC lossless audio format.



Hope this helps!

Rick D.