From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...

It takes forever to rip a CD - so formatting your entire music library for iPod or PC can be a real pain. Enter music-ripping services. You give them your CDs; they dupe 'em, tag 'em, and load 'em ...

As a DJ I finally got sick of hauling around 1200+ cds to events, so I've converted most of them using Lame and stored them on a rack-mounted PC. I'm still working on ripping the rest and discarding ...

Like many of you, I've been ripping my CDs for years. I have thousands, and everything worked fine until my most recent problem. I'm running out of space. Don't tell me about cheap hard drives. I've ...

I’ve got a lot of music in my collection, and some of it in box sets of varying sizes. From a 37-disc set of Schubert’s lieder, to an 80-disc set of all of Glenn Gould’s recordings, to a 98-disc set ...

Say you have a movie on DVD, but you want to watch it on your phone, tablet, somewhere else. You can “rip” that DVD—or turn it into a movie file on your computer—to play it wherever you want. Here’s ...

Donald Bell shows you how to use iTunes for transferring a multiple-CD audiobook to your iPod, while keeping tracks and chapters in their correct order. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell ...

Click to viewCommercial DVDs are far too expensive to let scratches turn your video into a glorified coaster, but most people still don't back up their DVD collection. Once upon a time, the four to ...