Barney Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 My wife has just bought a new laptop and she wants to use a track from a CD for a ring tone on her mobile. She has the latest Windows media player, but try as we might we cannot convert the track to MP3 format which is required for the mobile. As you can tell I'm not what you'd call great with this type of thing, any help would be very much appreciated. BTW her laptop is not connected to the net, but surely that's not required? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKIVDreamer Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 If its Windows Media Player 10 then the following should help: Goto Tools->Options Select the "Rip Music" tab In the "Rip settings" section, click on the "Format" drop-down box, and select mp3 I know some earlier versions of Windows Media Player can't rip to mp3, but I can't remember when they introduced it - maybe in v10. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 does anyone have a ripper that does variable bit rate? now that would be useful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Posted June 6, 2006 Author Share Posted June 6, 2006 Thanks, think she has Media Player 9 which might explain things, will have a look again tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Davey Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 You can download the latest media player for free from microsoft's website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Posted June 6, 2006 Author Share Posted June 6, 2006 You can download the latest media player for free from microsoft's website Thanks Rob, have just downloded v11 to disc and will put it on her laptop tonight and see if that solves our problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 Not keen on 11, don't like the new interface and there's still the same old bugs from 10. Hopefully they'll fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 itunes is a nice easy way to do it, supports all the mp3 options you could want too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 itunes is a nice easy way to do it, supports all the mp3 options you could want too doesn't support .wma though which a lot of people want for some reason i'd defo go with itunes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 iTunes rips only to 128k though doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 iTunes rips only to 128k though doesn't it? you need higher than that? i doubt whether i'd notice quality any better than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Davey Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 You can tell, but depends if you’re playing on a good system or not though. It clips more frequencies the lower you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 you need higher than that? i doubt whether i'd notice quality any better than that. My god you can... I never buy anything from iTunes as their rate (128) is gash! I think the variable ones (200+) are best....but if it's home ripping it has to be 320.. I need it CD quality.. If you have a mixture of different bit rates on your MP3 player you can really tell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 bah I challenge you to tell the difference above 192. If you're ripping at 320 then you may as well use a lossless codec like FLAC IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 bah I challenge you to tell the difference above 192. If you're ripping at 320 then you may as well use a lossless codec like FLAC IMO. well I might just do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 My god you can... I never buy anything from iTunes as their rate (128) is gash! I think the variable ones (200+) are best....but if it's home ripping it has to be 320.. I need it CD quality.. If you have a mixture of different bit rates on your MP3 player you can really tell! i have ripped all of my cds with itunes and play my ipod through my alpine head unit. i can only just tell the difference between a cd played through it and my ipod. maybe my ears need cleaning out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviekid Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 does anyone have a ripper that does variable bit rate? now that would be useful... Download CDex (free). Rips CD's to hard drive at any kbps you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 i have ripped all of my cds with itunes and play my ipod through my alpine head unit. i can only just tell the difference between a cd played through it and my ipod. maybe my ears need cleaning out. Rip the same track at 128, 192 and 320 and you'll be amazed at the difference... people always say the human ear can't tell over 192, but I think you can.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 Download CDex (free). Rips CD's to hard drive at any kbps you want. Cheers bud, I'll check it out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 Cheers for all your help guys, have now sorted the problem out by downloading Windows Media player v11:thumbs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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