I need help in copying a variety of CD"s onto my computer
to store and copy later to a new music CD. Hopefully you
can help me

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:12:20 -0700, "Jeanette"
<(E-Mail Removed)> spewed forth these words of wisdom:

>I need help in copying a variety of CD"s onto my computer
>to store and copy later to a new music CD. Hopefully you
>can help me

If you want to copy a CD to the hard drive, and then record a compilation CD
from those files, you will want to use WAV files. Unfortunately, WAV is an
uncompressed format, and requires 10MB of space per minute. In that case, it
would be more beneficial if you waited until you wanted to create the disc until
you did the ripping. Of course, if you have 200GB of free space, then that's
another story. ;-)
There is a wide variety of software on the market to create compilation CDs. (I
have probably tried them all) I use Feurio exclusively. You can use Feurio in
one of two ways. You can browse through each disc and then rip the selected
songs immediately, or you can choose to "earmark" the tracks. In that instance,
you will be prompted to insert each disc so they may be ripped before the
burning process begins.
Feurio offers an unlimited trial period. Feurio is $29 shareware, but if you do
not decide to register it, it will continue to work. Feel free to contact me
via e-mail if you have more questions.
http://www.feurio.com/English/index.shtml

--
"I'm not a cool person in real life, but I play one on the Internet"
Galley

"Jeanette" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2c58301c4693f$9c5ec850$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I need help in copying a variety of CD"s onto my computer
> to store and copy later to a new music CD. Hopefully you
> can help me

You can use the freeware CDex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ to copy
("rip") the music tracks to your hard drive as wav files (perfect quality)
or as high-bitrate (extremely good quality) music files. Later, you can
use the burning software of your choice to burn those tracks to CD-R. Wav
files are much larger than corresponding mp3 files, which are compressed.
If you rip to mp3 at a bitrate of 192 or higher though, you might find it
hard or nearly impossible to tell the difference in sound quality between
an mp3 and a wav file, but let your ears be the judge.

Regards,
Ian.