"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:WpfRb.153638$I06.1549162@attbi_s01:

The only fair thing to do is rip off the music industry as bad as
you
can,
for overcharging us for music all these years.

No, the only fair thing to do is to use your dollars wisely, and
purchase the best quality stuff for the lowest price available.

Stealing the music is theft, and -- no matter the sins of the music
industry in the past (which I could dispute, but that's another post)
-- I can't condone it.

That said, I agree that a buck a song is outrageously high for a
download.

Actually, I don't see a buck a song as bad at all....

If you add up the songs on a cd that you like at all.... then divide by
the price of the cd, your much higher than a buck a song. (for most cd's
anyway... most "best of" cd's excluded...)

However, if you want to buy the cd's then rip them to your HD, then burn
the stuff you want to listen to, i've found CDEX to be a very reliable
ripping software, even for scrached cd's... it's free and you can get it
at http://www.cdex.n3.net/ , scroll down to "latest stable release" The
best part of ripping your bought CD's is you do not have to managed the
"license" files so if you want to transfer to muliple devices you will
not have to mess with making sure all the"license permissions" are in
order.

You can then burn to cd with Nero, or even direct from windows media
player on some versions of windows. Also whatever software came with
your cd burner will usually work in "burn to audio cd" mode. I ripp to
mp3 192kb/s or better, then leave a backup on the computer, then burn up
to 20 songs at a time to the disk.

I've ripped every cd I own, and they reside on a hardrive on a computer
in our entertainment center and I set media player to play various
playlists depending on the occation. for example, durring a christmas
gathering, i can play over 12 hours of christmas music without repeating
a song.... beats the heck out of finding disks, changing disks, etc.

--
ET


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