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Windows Media Player 11 Tutorial: How to Rip Your Audio CDs

By Mark Harris, About.com

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Checking your ripped audio files

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Now it's time to verify that the files that have been created are in your Windows Media Player library and to check to see how they sound.

First, click on the Library tab (highlighted blue in the above image) to access Media Player's library options. Next, look at the menu list on the left pane and click on Recently Added to verify that all the tracks you want have been successfully ripped to the library.

Finally, to play an entire ripped album from the start, double-click on the artwork, or for a single track, just double-click on your desired track number. If you find that you ripped audio files don't sound great then you can always start again and re-rip using a high quality setting.

Once you have built up your library you may want to read the tutorial on which goes into detail on importing digital music files from other locations (hard drive folders, USB drives, etc.)

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