Microsoft rolled out app updates to Insiders on Windows 11, including adding the ability to rip CDs through Media Player.

How to rip CDs in Windows The simplest tool for ripping a CD in Windows 11 is Windows Media Player.

New Windows Media Player app travels back in time, gains the ability to rip CDs Welcome news for anyone who's ready to retire their Sony Discman.

Having received CD playback support earlier this year, the new feature in Media Player lets users rip CDs to WMA, FLAC, ALAC, or AAC format, with the latter being the default setting.

Support for listening to CDs was only added to the Windows 11 Media Player in March. The new version being seeded with Windows Insiders ups the ante by letting users rip CDs.

Since I put together this new rig and installed Win7 on it, I've been using Windows Media Player to play backups of old mp3's and to rip CD's. In the past I've always used 3rd party software for ...

But what about all of the music CDs you already own? Your computer has the ability to rip the songs off a CD, convert them to MP3 files and store them to be played.

After you've installed several players, Windows may associate one program with MP3s, a second program with video files and a third with ripping audio from CDs.