Windows CD Rip to MP3

Windows CD Rip to MP3

As I bought my first cd in a long time thanks to Pandora :-) I needed to get some software to create MP3s out of it so that I could transfer them to my phone and audio players. iTunes would have been the obvious choice, but I do not use that so here is what I used.

I chose Exact Audio Copy: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
I also needed to download LAME from here: http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php

It worked like a charm.

Copying Songs from iTunes to a Sansa Clip

Unfortunately Windows Media player was having trouble syncing all my new songs under the iTunes folders, so I was wanting to sync directly from iTunes. However, there does not appear to be any way to do this only inside iTunes.

Here are the steps that I took to remedy my problem:

1. Ensure all the files are MP3 and not AAC (You can convert them inside iTunes).
2. Create an empty folder on your desktop.
3. Drag the MP3 songs that you want from the Music Library to the new folder on your desktop
4. Once all the songs you want are in that folder, Plug in your Sansa
5. Now open up the Sansa in My Computer (should show up as a removable drive) and go into the Music directory
6. Remove any songs you don't want
7. Drag (or copy&paste) all the songs from your folder on the desktop to your Music directory on your Sansa

Hopefully, this helped you!