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need some help.....cd burning

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I have 2 cd drives on my system, I have wmp v12 player, what simplest program can I get just to drag and burn to cd and burn for music?

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Based on your title and question I am guessing you want to clone CD's, so with that in mind.....

From what I am reading, CD Audio (Redbook) is different from a typical file system structure on a data CD (or even a movie DVD). It doesn't contain "files". So it's hard for a program to convert that to an ISO image. It even appears that the classic Linux command "dd" can't interpret Redbook correctly.

So I am not seeing an easy way to simply clone an audio CD directly from one disc to another with no middle layer. It looks like you will have to have a middle layer when you rip from the source to a file and then burn that file to the destination.

If you are going to do that, then I would recommend ripping in Wave (WAV). It does not use compression so the files are big, but it will be exactly what was on the original CD.

Now if you're just talking about importing a bunch of music from CD's on to your computer so you can digital versions of the music then there are lots of different programs depending what you're looking for. I absolutely love iTunes on both Windows and OSX. I do not have any problems that some people bitch and complain about. I use it on all kinds of different computers and do not have any issues. I even installed the latest iTunes on my garage computer which uses a Pentium D dual core (which is prehistoric) and only has 2GB of memory on Windows Vista and it runs fine. iTunes will let your rip from multiple drives at the same time.

On my main PC, I have 4 optical drives in the bays and 2 additional USB optical drives and I have had iTunes ripping from all 6 at the same time with zero issue.

But Windows Media Player does have some advantages as well if you are in a Microsoft ecosystem (Xbox, Windows Phone, Zune). I just greatly like iTunes organizing abilities as well as other additional features (like iTunes Match).
 
westrock2000 said:
Based on your title and question I am guessing you want to clone CD's, so with that in mind.....

From what I am reading, CD Audio (Redbook) is different from a typical file system structure on a data CD (or even a movie DVD). It doesn't contain "files". So it's hard for a program to convert that to an ISO image. It even appears that the classic Linux command "dd" can't interpret Redbook correctly.

So I am not seeing an easy way to simply clone an audio CD directly from one disc to another with no middle layer. It looks like you will have to have a middle layer when you rip from the source to a file and then burn that file to the destination.

If you are going to do that, then I would recommend ripping in Wave (WAV). It does not use compression so the files are big, but it will be exactly what was on the original CD.

Now if you're just talking about importing a bunch of music from CD's on to your computer so you can digital versions of the music then there are lots of different programs depending what you're looking for. I absolutely love iTunes on both Windows and OSX. I do not have any problems that some people bitch and complain about. I use it on all kinds of different computers and do not have any issues. I even installed the latest iTunes on my garage computer which uses a Pentium D dual core (which is prehistoric) and only has 2GB of memory on Windows Vista and it runs fine. iTunes will let your rip from multiple drives at the same time.

On my main PC, I have 4 optical drives in the bays and 2 additional USB optical drives and I have had iTunes ripping from all 6 at the same time with zero issue.

But Windows Media Player does have some advantages as well if you are in a Microsoft ecosystem (Xbox, Windows Phone, Zune). I just greatly like iTunes organizing abilities as well as other additional features (like iTunes Match).
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so I will load iTunes, rip music to that and I will have a drag here to burn to cd on iTunes
 
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