How to Rip Audio CD to MP3 using Windows Media Player 11

Posted by dkszone on September 18, 2009

MP3 is most often used music format for playing your favorite songs on portable devices exclusively due to it’s compression ratio. Songs ripped to MP3 format are considerably much smaller than the original company recorded CDA (Compact Disc Audio) format. If you have Windows Media Player on your PC, then you will not need any separate MP3 converter to do this job.

In this article we will show you how to convert CDA to MP3 format using WMP 11.

1. Insert the CD into your PC
2. Open Windows Media Player
3. Click on “RIP” tab. You can see all the tracks in the CDA listed here.

Windows Media Player Rip
4. Click pull down arrow under RIP tab and select “More Options…”
5. Specify the location for saving the ripped mp3 files in “Rip music to this location” section.
6. Change Format to mp3 in Rip Settings. Adjust the audio quality by moving the slider to desired levels. More the value, higher the quality. The available mp3 bit rate options are 128kbps, 192kbps, 256kbps and 320kbps. Higher the Bitrate of converted MP3, higher is the size of the ripped MP3 file.

RIP RIP OPTIONS WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

7. Click Apply and then OK
8. In the Rip tab list, uncheck any songs which you don’t want to rip.
9. Now Click Rip Music to rip all the selected songs to MP3 format.
Enjoy ripping!