Chapter 10. CDex: An All-Purpose CD Ripper and Audio Converter

Over the years, we have all purchased a lot of music CDs, or as some of us still call them, albums. Many of those albums, unfortunately, had only two or three songs we really liked, so playing the whole album wasn’t what we wanted. As a result, we created collections of our favorite songs on tape and played the tapes, instead.

These days, we can create our own collections from those albums we have purchased and create CD collections of those songs we want to hear. Furthermore, if you have lots of disk space and you spend a lot of time at your computer, nothing beats a collection of songs ready to play without having to change CDs all the time. Pulling songs from a CD and saving them ...

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