CDs. They're affordable, easy to find, and you can rip lossless digital audio files from them. Now that computers with ...

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Say you have a movie on DVD, but you want to watch it on your phone, tablet, somewhere else. You can “rip” that DVD—or turn it into a movie file on your computer—to play it wherever you want. Here’s ...

Click to viewCommercial DVDs are far too expensive to let scratches turn your video into a glorified coaster, but most people still don't back up their DVD collection. Once upon a time, the four to ...

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 ...

Donald Bell shows you how to use iTunes for transferring a multiple-CD audiobook to your iPod, while keeping tracks and chapters in their correct order. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell ...

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.

I can put up with the guilt no longer. I confess; I rip CDs. I put them in the CD drive, and use freely available, totally legal software to convert the tracks to MP3 format. Then even worse I ...

I’ve got a lot of music in my collection, and some of it in box sets of varying sizes. From a 37-disc set of Schubert’s lieder, to an 80-disc set of all of Glenn Gould’s recordings, to a 98-disc set ...