I've using windows media player to rip the CD to a USB stick. The stick is formatted to FAT32 and I selected WMA lossless (or whatever it's called).

It takes approximately 1 hour to rip 4 CDs. I think I'm using the highest quality, but I'm not sure. Is this normal? How long should it take to rip one CD?

Thanks,
1969TxCowboy

 

Looking at the manual...

So, your Windows Media Audio (WMA) files may be useless. You may want to just rip to MP3. The files will be smaller, and if you choose 256 as the bitrate, the quality will be decent.

Also, if you have the disk space, it'll most likely be faster to rip all the CDs to your PC, then, from the 'Library' view in WMP, right click what you want to send to the USB stick and select 'Add to Sync List'. When ready, click on the Syn tab to get to where you want to be to initiate the move over to the USB stick. Also, once it's on the PC, you won't have to rip it again (but it could take up significant disk space - my 256kbps MP3 songs are 4-7MB ea.). Ripping an entire CD to the hard drive shouldn't take more than ~5 min or so.

A high-speed USB stick and port (both USB 3) will go a long way to speeding up the transfer process.

 

The WMA lossless files will work well, that's what I use. The fastest way is likely to rip the CDs to your hard drive, then send them to your memory stick.

 

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