I recently ripped about 10GB worth of .wma files to my My
Music folder. What is the best way to back these up so
that they can be restored on a new PC in Windows Media
Player? Can I use my Roxio software and simply back these
up to a data CD? I assume any restored files would then
have to all be added back to the library?

Jimmy wrote:
> I recently ripped about 10GB worth of .wma files to my My
> Music folder. What is the best way to back these up so
> that they can be restored on a new PC in Windows Media
> Player? Can I use my Roxio software and simply back these
> up to a data CD?

Yes. They are just files. You should also back up the album art files if
you can.

> I assume any restored files would then
> have to all be added back to the library?

Yes

Hi Mike can you help you seem to know a fair bit about WMP?
I'm trying to convert my WMP (10) files to mp3 but every time I try I get a
nessage saying that I'm not aloud to convert WMP files to any other format.
Is there a way round this. I was Using MAGIX 2005 for the conversion?

"Mike Williams [MVP]" wrote:

> Jimmy wrote:
> > I recently ripped about 10GB worth of .wma files to my My
> > Music folder. What is the best way to back these up so
> > that they can be restored on a new PC in Windows Media
> > Player? Can I use my Roxio software and simply back these
> > up to a data CD?
>
> Yes. They are just files. You should also back up the album art files if
> you can.
>
> > I assume any restored files would then
> > have to all be added back to the library?
>
> Yes
>

the phone wrote:
> Hi Mike can you help you seem to know a fair bit about WMP?
> I'm trying to convert my WMP (10) files to mp3 but every time I try I get a
> nessage saying that I'm not aloud to convert WMP files to any other format.
> Is there a way round this. I was Using MAGIX 2005 for the conversion?

Answered elsewhere: please don't change the subject of existing threads.

Burn a CD music disk (CDA) and then rip as MP3.

"the phone" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi Mike can you help you seem to know a fair bit about WMP?
> I'm trying to convert my WMP (10) files to mp3 but every time I try I get
> a
> nessage saying that I'm not aloud to convert WMP files to any other
> format.
> Is there a way round this. I was Using MAGIX 2005 for the conversion?
>
> "Mike Williams [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Jimmy wrote:
>> > I recently ripped about 10GB worth of .wma files to my My
>> > Music folder. What is the best way to back these up so
>> > that they can be restored on a new PC in Windows Media
>> > Player? Can I use my Roxio software and simply back these
>> > up to a data CD?
>>
>> Yes. They are just files. You should also back up the album art files if
>> you can.
>>
>> > I assume any restored files would then
>> > have to all be added back to the library?
>>
>> Yes
>>