Rip or Copy?

"02-27-15: Ptss
Thanks again. I have about a 3/4 yr old Lenovo laptop. I'll check the model and details tonight. Isn't iTunes just for apple?"

You can use iTunes for Windows, but unless you really need to for some reason, I wouldn't. iTunes seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to tagging, and it doesn't support some of the very popular codex's like FLAC, for commercial reasons. For the time being, you can download a free program called Foobar2000. It can do everything iTunes can do and more. Jriver is nice. I have that one as well, but you have to pay for it and its really not necessary just yet. Its very easy to switch from one player to the next. Right now, I would be concerned with properly ripping your CD's.

Your laptop is OK for ripping. EAC has a calibration feature for your optical drives. If, for some reason, something is wrong with it and can't get perfect rips, the software will tell you. I use a $25 Asus DVD drive I bought from Tiger Direct. Its works fine for this.

Ptss- I'm a consulting wetland scientist.

Zd I appreciate your consideration. All very helpful in my discovery of the new way to record and organize.

Hi Swampwalker. My very best friend from university days worked for the Ontario government in the fish and game department. I must go just now, more later.