![]() It requires a secure-ripping software (free or paid), and a particular process which is important to follow. Simply put, secure ripping is a process of ripping audio CDs without errors. Imagine ripping your whole CD collection and later finding out that a lot of the rips contain errors, but you don’t know where. Thinking you are safe only to later realize that the rip contains errors and your CD is long gone. Unless Windows comes up with a sophisticated way to deal with this you are risking making a false backup of your CD. We are not talking about a scratched disc (although that can also happen), we are talking about errors in how the disc is read by the drive. Even if you listened through the whole album, track by track, you would be unable to correct the errors.ĭon’t get me wrong here. These errors are known as the CD error detection hole. These errors can be hard to detect and impossible to correct later.Įrrors are likely to occur during the reading of the disc and no optical disc drive is able to detect errors 100% of the time. You might be able to get the tracks out of the disc, but they can still (and often will) contain errors. ![]() Why you shouldn’t use Media Player for ripping CDs Screenshot of Media Player showing available audio CD ripping settings. The Media Player app offers an intuitive and easy way to rip CDs, but if you are serious about your CD collection and audio quality you should definitely think twice before using it. ![]() ![]() This month a Windows blog post reported that CD ripping is going to be integrated into Windows 11.Īlthough the ability to rip CDs with Windows Media Player has been available for years, Windows Media Player is old an replaced with an app simply called Media Player in Windows 11.
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