So I ripped some mp3's off of uhhh...my own cd's.. and put them on one disc for my car. However the songs that I ripped aren't playing. It only recognizes the ones that I downloaded (legally of course).

Any ideas? Suggestions?

I used Windows Media Player to rip them (probably my first mistake).

 

??? I use Real Player to do mine and don't have any problems with my music, no matter where I got it from.

 

Winamp ftw!
Its the best

 

winamp wanted me to buy winamp pro in order to burn into mp3 format. Otherwise it would allow mp4's which I wasn't sure if the radio would play.

 

try music match

 

windows media player works fine for me

 

I thought everyone used iTunes? I guess not. It has worked so far for me.

 

doesn't media player rip as .wma?
and your player only plays .mp3, right?
best to rip music with cd-ex.... great software.

it's freeware
here's a dl spot
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

 

lol ya windows will usually rip in wma unless you **** with the settings... ive ripped with wmp, musicmatch, had winamp but didnt rip, realplayer, and they all have worked fine... also check to see if your burning folders or on the root... alot of players wont play folders (the ss/sc stock will thou just in case anyone is wondering)

 

It might just be your deck. Ive tried to play mine and it only works 1 out of 10. ****** garbage. Ive tried my friends CDs and same ****.

 

Damn it, you're right, its a wma!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, I feel real stupid. Ok so next question, how do you convert a wma to a mp3 so i dont havet o go and borrow all those cd's again...i mean find the ones that I own....

 

ooo wma 2 mp3... i never really delt with large number so im not sure the best way but what i did with one cd was burn the wma to a regular disk then burn the disk into cd (works good with rewrites) but thats probably inefficient for a bunch of them... check up on the net google "wma to mp3"

 

just re-rip it with cd-ex
follow the link i posted further up

 

Media player by default rips as .wma not MP3's. Tools Options then copy music in the middle of the window check the format type. If it was Windows Media, change to MP3 delete the stuff you just ripped and then re rip it.


Damn i should have read the rest of the posts

 

I'm lazy, I don't want to re-rip everything. I'm going to try and do a conversion on them and see what happens.

 

I found a program called Switch that will do it, however, it doesn't like the digital rights management protection on the WMA's. I really hate microsoft right about now. Any way to get around the DRM?

 

I like CD-Rider to rip off a CD. Works good, has database to get and set ID3 tags, it's fast, and best of all......free. http://cdrider.sourceforge.net/

 

oh all those songs are protected? lol you are probably going to have to do it my way.. i made it up when my jkon cd was protected against copying... shows that fool that i copy what ever i want to copy

 

Stupid Windows Media Player protects the WMA's. The CD's themselves are not protected.

Looks like I'm just going to have to do it all over again....

Lesson learned, MICROSOFT SUCKS!!!!

 

i use i tunes my self just change how the music is downloaded to itunes so its not acc format and you can burn mp3 cd's all day long

 

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm