As a DJ I finally got sick of hauling around 1200+ cds to events, so I've converted most of them using Lame and stored them on a rack-mounted PC. I'm still working on ripping the rest and discarding ...

From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...

I had an email exchange with a reader last week about replacing a small CD player. He asked me for a CD player recommendation and I had to tell him that I don't really play CDs since I've ripped all ...

Many listeners consider CD ripping to be a rather simple process, and for the most part, it is. The discs go in, your software performs a little magic, and your songs are copied to the hard drive. Of ...

Music was first delivered on vinyl records, then on magnetic tape in one form or another, such as 8-tracks and cassettes. Optical media, better known as CDs, came later, and many wondered what would ...

While CDs might be deemed a little long in the tooth these days – especially by Apple, which removed drives from its devices a while back – many of us still have collections that we’d like to digitise ...

I’ve got a lot of music in my collection, and some of it in box sets of varying sizes. From a 37-disc set of Schubert’s lieder, to an 80-disc set of all of Glenn Gould’s recordings, to a 98-disc set ...

As our digital libraries grow exponentially year after year, and we start to only purchase music from our favorite online vendors (Zune Marketplace for me, please!), it’s easy to overlook the many CDs ...