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Have you ever burned a CD only to find it does not work or part of it is missing? If so, the fact that the CD does not work is generally not your fault. The problem is with Buffer! Most burning software these days like Nero and Roxio automatically set to burn full speed which may be spitting data too fast at either the disc or filling up the buffer and causing errors. One problem this could be is using CD’s rated at a lower speed than your burner is burning at.

To fix this, don’t go out and buy new DVD’s or CD’s just set the setting to burn slower. Generally, you can set the speed just before you hit the burn button in most programs.

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.

Do you have a collection of CD’s and need to rip them into iTunes to fill up your new ipod? There is a hard way and an easy way. The hard way is not changing anything in iTune’s settings and ripping music the way it is set to. The easy way is to change settings in iTunes so that you can pop in a CD anythime and have iTunes rip your music automatically.

First, click edit on the upper left part of iTunes and click preferences. A windows will pop up and you need to click the advances tab at the top of the window and then click importing on a new set of tabs within the advanced tab. The next part is key. You need to select "Import CD and eject" in the drop down menu where it says "On CD Insert." After the first CD is inserted in your computer when iTunes is open, iTunes will automatically rip the CD and then eject the CD tray when finished. This is important because you don’t have to stay at your computer, just look over at your computer and insert a new disc anytime you see the CD tray open.

There are other very useful options that you can use here too. You can decide what format you want your music to be imported with which can save space or make your music work with more devices. Next, pay attention to the quality settings because it is not worth doing all this if the music sounds horrible afterwards. It is also probably important to uncheck the option to play songs while importing music. Another important setting to check is "Automatically retrieve CD track names from Internet." This feature is really nice because you don’t have to create the names of the tracks saving time and making file management much better. Also make sure "Create filenames with track number."

Computers are made to make your life easy, it is time to make them do it. You can also do this in Windows Media player with similar options.