I love music! I have hundreds of CDs in my collection, a few of which have survived since from the late 1980s. I have an original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Foo Fighters debut album, Bush's Sixteen ...

As a DJ I finally got sick of hauling around 1200+ cds to events, so I've converted most of them using Lame and stored them on a rack-mounted PC. I'm still working on ripping the rest and discarding ...

From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...

Gracenote, the music identification company with controversial origins that helps CD ripping software identify CDs and provides acoustic recognition to Apple among others, announced that it will offer ...

Like many of you, I've been ripping my CDs for years. I have thousands, and everything worked fine until my most recent problem. I'm running out of space. Don't tell me about cheap hard drives. I've ...

It takes forever to rip a CD - so formatting your entire music library for iPod or PC can be a real pain. Enter music-ripping services. You give them your CDs; they dupe 'em, tag 'em, and load 'em ...

Q: I have yet to really build a music file online. I have dabbled with Napster and iTunes, but really don't have much of a collection. I would like to begin ripping music CDs to my computer. It is ...

Each time I look at a new MP3 player, I feel this urge to reboot my music collection—to sacrifice a weekend or two and re-rip all my CDs onto one system so I have everything in a consistent format.

Music was first delivered on vinyl records, then on magnetic tape in one form or another, such as 8-tracks and cassettes. Optical media, better known as CDs, came later, and many wondered what would ...