Chapter 28. Ripping and Burning Audio CDs

Chances are good that your favorite music is stored on a bunch of audio CDs. Chances are also good that each CD probably contains only a handful of songs that you really want to hear more than once.

Rather than get stuck listening to songs you don’t care about, you can yank your favorite songs off each audio CD and store them as digital audio files on your Macintosh. You won’t have to bother fumbling with CDs when you can simply pick and play your favorite songs on your Mac instead. For those times when you want to listen to your music in a car, you can burn the songs you like to a custom CD collection.

The process of pulling songs off audio CDs and storing them on a computer is known as ripping. When you ...

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