Winamp Tutorial - How to Rip CDs

Category: Tutorials, Category: Video Posted by Tarik, Oct 13th 2008 9:00AM

In this Winamp tutorial we show you how to Rip a CD using the Winamp Media Player. The tutorial also covers encoding options (AAC, AAC+, FLAC, WMA, WAV, etc), how to manually edit CD Information, as well as how to set your CD Ripping Preferences.

For more information you can visit the Winamp help docs and do a search on "Rip" or "Ripping". There you'll find detailed information on "Ripping Music with Winamp", "Burning Tracks to CDs", "General Preferences", & "Saving CDs to your PC".

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Posted at 7:18AM on Oct 27th 2008 by Ali Fatehi

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Posted at 7:18AM on Oct 27th 2008 by Ali Fatehi

3. Thank you for needfull tut...

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Posted at 3:53PM on Nov 27th 2008 by alex

4. great video taught me alot

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Posted at 12:21PM on Dec 26th 2008 by Jakes

5. “Tutorials”

This tutorial is (like most) useless! It does not say, what anything is, like VBR, (I assume its Variable Bit rate) but what is VBR Q? This so called tutorial says you can choose a multitude of parameter settings, but gives No help whatsoever on what settings to choose. On things like, the best, min and max bit rate, encoder format, or max speed for use as a standard default for any given situation. What a user can control is all that is covered but that is obvious by the existence of a control switch already. I need to know where to set the control and why. This is the standard support flaw industry wide. Product tutorials cover the obvious in redundant detail without supplying a trace of useable operational instruction. Sure the answered may be in the help file but you need to know what question you should be asking to find it. This intentional failure to communicate has caused users to have little confidence in software help files. This led to users needing the info bad enough to create independent forums to help each other and (what do you know) relieved the software developer of the majority (if not all) of their support responsibilities.

Posted at 5:00AM on Jun 28th 2009 by scott

6. Bravo Scott!
I agree and have one specific (but to me - important) question. How can I convert my flacs to iTunes/iPhone (lossless - I want the best quality) format? I don't even know what options or formats are relevant. I have paid for pro version and haven't found the answer online (maybe I've missed it?) but felt intimidated by the "Don't ask until you have searched online" approach to providing support.

I have over 1000 CD's ripped to FLACs and would like to get an iPhone.

Help!!!

Posted at 8:38PM on Jul 18th 2009 by Tony Mitchell

7. Want to know how to transler MP3s to the Apple iPod.

Posted at 9:35PM on Aug 30th 2009 by Jennifer

8. @Jennifer, there's a blog post about how to manage your iPod with Winamp - http://blog.winamp.com/2009/03/11/how-to-manage-music-in-ipod-using-winamp/

Just as a reminder... Winamp dose not natively support iPod touch or iPhone. For a full list of supported devices checkout this post - http://blog.winamp.com/2009/08/10/winamp-device-support/

Posted at 9:30AM on Aug 31st 2009 by The Winamp Team

9. Thanks! I'm switching from Media Player to Winamp, and this helped.

Posted at 9:15AM on Oct 19th 2009 by Conor

10. Thanks man, really helpful, very well explained.
Cheers.

Posted at 9:28AM on Oct 26th 2009 by Zerez

11. Thankyou. I went from the frustration of not knowing how to upload a cd onto this program to understanding what ripping is. Thankyou

Posted at 2:01AM on Nov 10th 2009 by debbie

12. thanks a lot this helps :)

Posted at 3:51AM on Dec 9th 2009 by kaka

13. Glad you liked it. There's also a tutorial on how to Burn a CD. You can check out all of the tutorials here - http://blog.winamp.com/category/tutorials/

Posted at 1:03PM on Dec 9th 2009 by The Winamp Team

14. I use winamp as the player is great after losing the old musicmatch,
as for converting I use the converter that comes free with real player, only found it by accident in all programs start > all progs .real >converter sp..and yes it does ipod plus cell phones ect ect and its free

Posted at 10:16AM on Dec 15th 2009 by Baz

15. The instructions are wrong. I had the CD in, but it doesn't show up in the left panel. If you click on "Rip and Burn" you can see the media in the middle panels, but there are no buttons to actually start the rip. What you have to do is click on the arrow-head just to the left of "Rip and Burn", that then changes to a down-arrow and an entry for the Audio CD appears, then you can follow the tutorial. Totally hopeless, counter-intuitive process. Hate it.

Posted at 4:35PM on Dec 30th 2009 by Dave

16. I just want to make a MP3 cd? Not sure why it is so hard to find help on a simply topic. My formater thing on winamp display a blank tab where it should give me options. I saw what i needed when i had the free version of wiamp just click on the tab and burn as mp3 then it tells me i need winamp pro so i caved in and bought it now that options is gone and i get no options to what type of CD i want to make. Long time winamp user and wanted to get pro for a long time now i cant even make a mp3 cd :(

Posted at 12:53AM on Jun 15th 2011 by Stan

17. i like how there's Bad Religion haha

Posted at 6:00PM on Oct 4th 2011 by Darwin

18. Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I havent't know that you can rip a CD with winamp. I used nero..
Best regards,
John from http://www.proreview.net

Posted at 8:40AM on Oct 31st 2011 by John