Just as I told how to rip music with iTunes, Windows Media Player has some options that make ripping CD’s to your computer much easier than traditional methods. Sure everyone can do this but I want to make your life easier and more efficient with software, computers, and technology.
There are many many ways to do this but this is my method for when you have stacks of CD’s that you want to copy to your computer.
What you want to do is click options in Media Player. When you open up Media Player, there are buttons at the top called Now Playing, Library, Rip ect. What you need to do is click "More options" in the drop down menu that is found when you click a very small arrow under any one of these buttons.
When the options windows opens up, click the "rip music" tab. The first option you can change is the place where you rip your music. If you have a special place for your music, change it here otherwise the default will be the My Music folder. Next, under rip Settings you can select the format for the music and more. The rip settings is a place you want to pay attention to because it is where your life can get a lot easier if you have a stack of CD’s to rip. Click "Rip CD when inserted" and check "always." This basically means anytime you insert a CD in Windows Media player, it will copy the music to your computer. The other thing to do is check "Eject CD when ripping is complete." With this selected, you will notice the CD tray open after the computer finished copying the music. Now you can go about doing whatever you need to do and not worry about copying the stack of CD’s, just insert a CD when you see the tray open. Finally, the last part you can choose the the audio quality. The best level is the level you cant notice and change in your music so I would do a trial and error rip to make sure you are happy with the audio quality before you rip your entire collection.
One other thing I would suggest is clicking the privacy tab and check "Update music files by retrieving media info from the Internet" which will update your music track names automatically to their names.