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Posted by iws on 10/16/83 11:46
<maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu> wrote in message
news:1146245453.736383.247850@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> I bought a family member a portable MP3 player, but we're having a
> terrible time getting music off of CDs and onto the player.
>
> The player didn't come with any software, and said to use the Windows
> Media Player to do the transfer. After numerous failed efforts, I
> managed, but...I'm not sure I could do it twice!
>
> I then proceeded to download half a dozen highly rated freeware
> programs that purport to do this kind of thing, and had more or less
> the same experience: either there were a dozen steps (and no error msgs
> when a step failed--it just failed), or else the program said it
> couldn't download to a portable MP3 player.
>
> Conceptually, this shouldn't be so hard. I can't for the life of me
> understand why I can't just have something like a two-pane Windows
> explorer app, where I drag tracks from the CD over to the MP3 player,
> and the system does everything needed (ripping, conversion to the
> correct format, and downloading). Sure, I might have to set some
> parameters the first time through (bit rate, whatever), but after that
> it should be a drag-and-drop operation. Likewise, when I want to
> delete tracks from the portable MP3 player, I should just click on a
> track (or control- or shift-click) and press the delete button. And
> when the MP3 player doesn't have room for a given track, an error msg
> should pop up. Maybe I should be able to play a track from the CD so I
> can decide whether to copy it, but that should be as simple as
> double-clicking on it and launching it in Media Player.
>
> Is there some such application? It doesn't need to look like a dorm
> room stereo system out of the 60s; Windows Explorer would be just fine!
I've had some experience with off-brand mp3 players and typically, the more
recent ones act like a flash drive which is seen as a removable drive by
Windows and you simply drag and drop mp3 files into them using explorer. If
this is the case for yours then CDex ought to do just what you want - just
make sure to set up the ripped files location to be your mp3 player.
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