Posted by dadiOH on 10/05/07 10:37

jamcnat@gmail.com wrote:
> My wife recently won an ipod in a raffle and so I've joined the
> ranks of those downloading, burning, and syncing. In my journey so
> far, I've taken an old audio CD, transferred the tracks thru Media
> Player to my hard drive, converted them to mp3, pulled them into
> iTunes and synced them to the ipod; no problems, works great. But
> now, downloading songs from Real Player (in .rax protected format),
> I can't covert them (I've tried several conversion programs) and
> get them onto the ipod. I called RP tech support and they said to
> first burn them to a CD (done) and then RIP them. I use B's
> Recorder Gold5 for my CD burning and there's an option to RIP so I
> choose that. Before I start the RIP process, I check the content of
> the CD-RW and it shows the 6 tracks of music in Real Player format.
> However, when I start the RIP process, the CD content shows as a
> single track image file and this image file is what's "ripped" to
> my hard drive. What am I doing wrong?

1. Burn them to CD as "audio", not "data". Now, you are just copying
them from one place to another, not converting them ro an unprotected
format.

2. Read the help file for your program about ripping or use another
ripper.

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dadiOH
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