"Bob" <luna5nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:ObUckozRHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> The only file formats that Media Player rips to are 4 Windows Media
> variations, mp3 and .wav none of which will play on my car cd player. When
> you click rip what you get is a copy of the song that's been converted to
> a .wma file by default not a copy of the .cda file. The cd audio files are
> .cda and are not even visible in Windows from what I can tell. If I try
> and do a regular file copy of one of the tracks all I get is a 44 byte
> .cda file that does not play. . I'll have to buy a copy of Nero 7
> apparently to do this.
> Thanks,
> Bob>

I am not a music "guru" however, I copied "All The Roads Running",by Emmy
Lou Harris ,12 songs; and a music cd of "The Dixie Chicks" ,neither of these
were MP3 files; music cd's bought,I believe,at Walmart.
I was just "seeing" what "Media Player" would do,pretty impressive <g>