Importing Music CDs

[zeez78]

Hopefully this is an easy one: I'm trying to import music from a cd. When I go to Media Import, under the view menu, I can only select Photo and Video. The audio selection is gray and I can't choose.

 

The help screen reads "Note: If you have not already chose an application to use with audio CDs, you are prompted to do so." But I was never prompted to do so.

 

Am I missing something. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[malatekid]

You can use the Sound Editor program to import music from cd.

[zeez78]

I just realized I'm using MyDVD 9 instead of easy media creator 9.

 

Do you know if the sound editor is part of the MyDVD 9 (I didn't see a forum for My DVD 9)

 

Thanks.

[malatekid]

I just realized I'm using MyDVD 9 instead of easy media creator 9.

 

Do you know if the sound editor is part of the MyDVD 9 (I didn't see a forum for My DVD 9)

 

Thanks.

I'm afraid not. Based on this product chart, there is no functionality relating to music.MyDVD is basically a video authoring software.

[zeez78]

It allows me to import mp3s so I figured it would allow me to use cd's as well. I guess I don't understand why the help menu would provide steps to import music from a cd when the program isn't designed for it.

[sknis]

It allows me to import mp3s so I figured it would allow me to use cd's as well. I guess I don't understand why the help menu would provide steps to import music from a cd when the program isn't designed for it.

 

Please only one thread per topic. You now have two of them going and are getting the same information.

[grandpabruce]

It allows me to import mp3s so I figured it would allow me to use cd's as well. I guess I don't understand why the help menu would provide steps to import music from a cd when the program isn't designed for it.

 

What program did you use to import mp3's? Use the same one for importing from the CD's.

[Xylem]

I would like to weigh in on the topic of ripping here.

 

The OP, in another thread, was seeking to rip music and was told by a Digital Guru "Roxio chose not to include [a program] to keep the price down."

 

I think this may not be absolutley true. Since neither the 'manual' nor the 'help' files even contain the word "ripping" I spent hours trying to find a way to get music from CD's. Because others may also have this problem I would like to point out the solution I found (in EMC9);

 

Go Home> Audio> Convert CDs> Options> Audio> Conversion type. Here you can make a selection of MP3, WAV, WMV or others. Click OK.

 

Then; choose a drive and insert the CD. All the selections are checked; uncheck the ones you don't want to rip (or use the 'check all', or 'uncheck all' choices at bottom). Rip the selected files.

 

A caveat: you can't listen to, or preview, the audio file before ripping. And I found that some files were not properly ripped (even from the same disc) and could not be used in other Roxio pgms like VideoWave. I actually went back to Windows Media Player, which seemed to do a better job.

 

I thought this might be useful information.

 

Cheers,

-Tom

[sknis]

I would like to weigh in on the topic of ripping here.

 

The OP, in another thread, was seeking to rip music and was told by a Digital Guru "Roxio chose not to include [a program] to keep the price down."

 

I think this may not be absolutley true. Since neither the 'manual' nor the 'help' files even contain the word "ripping" I spent hours trying to find a way to get music from CD's. Because others may also have this problem I would like to point out the solution I found (in EMC9);

 

Go Home> Audio> Convert CDs> Options> Audio> Conversion type. Here you can make a selection of MP3, WAV, WMV or others. Click OK.

 

Then; choose a drive and insert the CD. All the selections are checked; uncheck the ones you don't want to rip (or use the 'check all', or 'uncheck all' choices at bottom). Rip the selected files.

 

A caveat: you can't listen to, or preview, the audio file before ripping. And I found that some files were not properly ripped (even from the same disc) and could not be used in other Roxio pgms like VideoWave. I actually went back to Windows Media Player, which seemed to do a better job.

 

I thought this might be useful information.

 

Cheers,

-Tom

 

I thought that I said probably ! I stand corrected (sort of). That's a long way around and WMP is a better choice. Hiow about 'There are no program in MyDVD that make ripping from a CD easy". Such as Music Disc Creator or Media Import.

[Xylem]

I thought that I said probably !

 

Ok. I didn't mean to be argumentative anyway; just thought there ought to be something on this board in case somebody else tries searching for 'ripping.' (as I did).

 

cheers