Now insert the CD you want to rip into the drive. If you selected the Ask to Import CD option, a pop-up asks if you want to import the CD into your music library. On all mainstream albums and many obscure ones, too, the names of the album and individual tracks will be correctly recognized through an online database, though in some cases you may be asked to confirm names if multiple matches are found.
If an album cannot be identified, make sure theAutomatically retrieve CD track names from Internetbox in Music Preferences has been selected. If the contents are still not recognized or if you’re not connected to the internet, you will see generic listings of Track 01, Track 02 and so on. You can manually change track names later.
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ClickYesto continue (orNoif you decide to bail).
When you clickYes,the computer begins copying all the tracks that have a check mark next to their name. So if you’d rather live without a song on the album, click the box with the check mark to deselect it.
A a spinning white circle with a red border signifies a track is in the process of being copied; a circled green checkmark signifies a track has been successfully imported.
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You’ll see a spinning white circle with a red border while a track is in the process of being copied. A circled green checkmark will appear next to tracks that have been successfully imported.
ClickStop Importingto cancel a job in the middle; any songs already copied will be added to your music library. When you’re finished and all the songs you want have landed in your digital library, click theEjectbutton near the upper right corner of the Music window to automatically remove the CD from the drive. On some CD/DVD drives, you must press a physical button to eject a disc.
Incidentally, you can continue to listen to other tunes in the Music app while a CD is being copied and imported.
It’s also worth noting that after inserting a CD into the drive, you can tap aCD infobutton in the Music app window to discover more about an album, including the artist, composer, genre and year it debuted. You can edit the information to fix errors.
If you click theImport CDbutton in the app window, you can change the format settings dictating how songs are encoded, copied and compressed. Apple goes with a default format called AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, which the company explains rivals the quality of audio CDs and sounds as good as or better than MP3 files encoded at the same bitrate, referring to the amount of data that goes into the sound files.
In general, the higher the bitrate, the higher theaudio fidelity, which you can change in theImport Settingswindow that pops up. Click on aSettingdrop-down menu, chooseCustomand thenStereo Bit Rate.An alternate method is to go to theMusicpulldown menu up top |Preferences| theFilestab |Import Settingsbutton. Then you canImport Usingone of five options in the resulting menu.
But most of you will be just fine sticking with the defaults.
Ripping a CD using Microsoft Windows
As you would with the Mac, insert a CD into thePC’sbuilt-in or external CD/DVD drive. Launch Windows Media Player, Microsoft’s equivalent to the Apple Music app, if it doesn’t open on its own.
