Ripping albums

[Crash]

Okay can anyone help me ?

When i rip my albums into the comp they are being placed into a dedicated album folder in the music directory , is there anyway they can just be ripped directly into the music folder and not into individual folders ?

I just want all my tracks in the same directory and short of ripping them and moving them later, I'm at a loss

It's a new comp which is running vista and media player 11.

 

[Ben M]

start up windos media player
Go into the settings
go to ripping settings
change the default folder to save files to

 

[Bman]

WMP is rubbish for ripping CD's.

Use something like audiograbber

 

[Crash]

Install something on my nice new laptop

Give it a week and then it will be full of crap

Vista is truly a pain in the butt, I mean if i want all my album tracks mixed together in one directory that's my choice , but vista says NO you must have them in nice and neat individual directories.

 

[nigelnorris]

Vista is truly a pain in the butt, I mean if i want all my album tracks mixed together in one directory that's my choice , but vista says NO you must have them in nice and neat individual directories.

Nothing at all to do with Vista, it's the same on any Windows operating system version. It's a limitation of WMP and there are any number of Windows based alternatives to that.

I can't imagine why you want this, once ripped you never have to look at the individual files again, you just use WMP to manipulate them.

The reason WMP does this is that its library structure isn't designed to deal with a single folder containing a large number of tracks. Too many and it will break anyway, so rippping then moving them all into a single folder afterwards isn't an option unless you have only a few CDs.

 

[luplowe]

Use iTunes, it will put them wherever you want.

 

[Crash]

Nothing at all to do with Vista, it's the same on any Windows operating system version. It's a limitation of WMP and there are any number of Windows based alternatives to that.

I can't imagine why you want this, once ripped you never have to look at the individual files again, you just use WMP to manipulate them.

The reason WMP does this is that its library structure isn't designed to deal with a single folder containing a large number of tracks. Too many and it will break anyway, so rippping then moving them all into a single folder afterwards isn't an option unless you have only a few CDs.

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