General Ripping Questions

[borbos]

Relative n00b here but want to educate myself. Is there software available so I can make ringtones out of music I own? I have just enough information to be dangerous. I have made a couple of CDs of my Itunes music, but I think I could get a lot more tunes on it if I could figure out how to save them to the cd as mp3s. Is that possible to do on Itunes or do I need another program to make some cds for my car? Any help appreciated and please pretend you are talking to a 3 year old.

[sgtspector]

The songs on the cd, I believe, are going to be copy protected. The way I do it is to play the cd in your pc or portable cd player and connect the headphone out jack to your sound card line in and record the music analog and let the pc re-digitize them. Depending on your sound card you may be able to record it directly without connecting the wires if it has the capability to record "what your hear". Use Audacity to record the songs and export them as mp3's or whatever format you like. Also in audacity you can edit the portion of the song you want as an mp3 and put it on your cell phone as a ringtone. Audacity is free and is available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
HTH.

[dogdude16]

I think he means he has his music on itunes so you could use the music not bought from the online store and put that on a mp3 cd

[cmichael258]

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[pam123]

If the music is bought from iTunes you can burn it as an audio cd and then re-rip it as an mp3 file.
If it's an mp3 file you imported into iTunes then this step in unnecessary.
What might trip you up depends on your phone service provider, some of them have phones that will only play ringtones bought from their service so check this out if you haven't already.
As for saving music as data files, you have the option in both windows and iTunes ( I back up music in data format not audio) so chose that from tools in either and you'll be good to go.
I've got a suggestion though, spend an hour or two investigating both programs, it won't hurt anything and you'll be better able to use them afterward.
Drop down menus were made to be clicked on !

[mojo]

Ditto on the itunes advice. For the ringtones, you can use audacity to make short clips and save them as small mp3 files, then get them to your phone "somehow." I personally am able to use bluetooth to just transfer the files to my phone, but your mileage may vary depending on which phone/provider you have.