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Get MP3 or WMA files from your music collection.
Windows Media Player 10 is out and its free. And it's your one stop media shop as far as ripping digital audio files and putting them on a digital media player.
While you can buy third party music rippers, why would you bother when WMP10 is available. (Download Windows Media Player 10) If you want to rip an MP3 all you need to do is stick a CD in your computer's CD or DVD drive and the system will ask you what to do with it, including rip an audio file from it. Be aware that its default is a WMA file - Windows Media Audio file. It's actually a pretty good file format engineered by Microsoft that has good compression features which are typically better than the older MP3 format. If you want MP3 ripping it is available through Windows Media Player 10. They actually licensed the codec from the Fraunhofer Institute, the inventor of the MP3 format.
WMA files will play on most digital audio players, however is one variation called the WMA variable bitrate format. This file format compresses audio files with different bitrates (or resolution) to improve quality vs. compression. If you player does not support this format when you copy the file to the player, WMP10 will rerip it so that it works on the player.
