Get a niffy program called CDEX, it is free and does an
excellent job ripping your CD's to MP3's, make sure you
make them at least stereo quality.
>-----Original Message-----
>Using a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with a fixed-bay 8x CD-
RW/DVD-ROM drive (a
>Samsung CDRW/DVD SN-308B). I've had this computer over
a year and have
>*never* been able to get totally clean copies of my
music collection, with
>either .mp3 format in MusicMatch Jukebox Plus OR .wma
format in Windows
>Media Series 9.
>
>I would really like to be able to copy all my music onto
this computer and
>put the CDs in storage forever. Windows media copies
the files fine but
>there are (lots of) intermittent blips/scratchy sounds.
MMJB is even more
>problematic-- most of the time it just displays an error
message 20 seconds
>into the encoding and has to quit. When it does
completely encode a CD,
>most of the time there are similar little cuts in the
music. A real drag.
>
>Reading/burning data cds and burning music cds is no
problem, which leads me
>to think that there is no problem with the drive
itself. I'm hoping that's
>the case anyway because like I say, it's fixed-bay so
it's here for good.
>System runs fine otherwise, Pentium III, 1 GHz, 256 MB
RAM. A software
>problem? Both players also work fine otherwise. Just
copying the damn CDs
>to the hard drive is the problem. Thanks for any help
y'all.
>
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