Copying Music Files from CD to Hard Disk

You can copy music tracks from a CD to your hard disk. It's useful for listening to music without needing to find and insert the CD. Copying the music and distributing it to other people is illegal. Copying the music to your computer and returning the CD for a refund is plain theft. The process of transferring the digital file for a piece of music from an audio CD to hard disk is called ripping. An application that transfers music tracks is called a CD Ripper.

Transferring music from a music CD to the computer's hard drive includes converting the file into a different format. The most popular format is MP3. However, you can store music in the open source format Ogg Vorbis, a format with better compression. ...

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