I have a new toy...

[evil_katil]

I just bought my first MP3 player... Its a SanDisk Sansa c250 MP3 player (2.0 GB). It will be the DJ at my wedding.

Can anyone recommend a free program that is fairly easy to use to rip my CDs and format the music to MP3s?

Comments

itunes.

[klokwerkaos]

All else is failure.

I've used them all (not really but at least a dozen others that have big names), the rest just don't add up in value.

I'm a musician and a DJ, I say itunes.

Some people like napster (as it does have a couple of nice features itunes doesn't have), I still strongly recomend Itunes for overall value.

You should be able to synch any mp3 player to it, but I'm not sure because I have an ipod and never tried to hook up something that wasn't.

Re: itunes.

[evil_katil]

Thanks for the recommendation! I'm going to download itunes tonight and start setting up the music line up....

[pgnblade]

Believe it or not iTunes is really decent.

I've also had good luck with MusicMatch, but it's not (entirely) free...

Yay new toy!

[sweetwildandmad]

iTunes is easy enough to use, although I HATE the way it names files, and hate even more how you can't change that in the options. It also has a habit of throwing some albums into a compilations folder sometimes. Which is why I spent the $23 on Magic MP3 tagger to edit my tags and filenames for good. http://www.magic-tagger.com/eng/index.php

And never, never let iTunes "Manage your music for you" Unless all your tags are complete, otherwise you'll end up with a lot of unknown.mp3 in unknown folders.