Convert audio CD to MP3 with Windows Media Player

With Windows Media Player, you can easily convert music CDs to MP3. But there are also alternatives.

Music: Convert audio CDs to MP3 with the media player

Few people still have a CD player at home, but before you dispose of your old music, you can easily digitize it. With Windows Media Player, you can convert audio CDs to MP3 format.

• Insert the CD into your PC, open Windows Media Player and navigate to the CD on the right-hand side. All the songs on the CD will now be displayed. By default, all files are checked, but you can also uncheck the boxes if you only want to convert individual songs.

• Now click on “Copy Settings” in the menu bar and select MP3 under “Format”.

• To change the folder in which the MP3 songs are stored, click again on “Additional options” under “Copy settings” and then on “Change”. In this window, you can also select the quality of the songs.

• Once you have set everything up the way you want, simply start the process by clicking on “Copy CD”. After the copying process, you will find all songs in MP3 format in the Windows Media Player library and in the folder you selected earlier.

CD to MP3: Alternatives to Media Player

If you don’t want to use Media Player, there are other free alternatives for converting CDs to MP3s.

• The Free Audio CD to MP3 Converter is a free program that is quick to install and intuitive to use. It’s the easy way to back up your CD collection on your computer.

• CDex is another program that lets you quickly convert your CDs to the more modern MP3 format. The WAV format is also offered during the conversion. When extracting the data, the titles and artists are automatically adopted.

How to transfer MP3 files from your PC to your smartphone

Once you have backed up your CDs on your PC and converted them to MP3 format, you can also transfer the audio files to your smartphone so you can listen to music with your headphones.

• Connect your smartphone to the PC with a USB cable.

• Open Windows Explorer (keyboard shortcut Windows key + E) and search for your smartphone under “This PC”.

• Unlock your cell phone and go to “Transfer data”.

• Now search on your PC for the folder on your cell phone to which you want to transfer the MP3s, or create a new music folder.

• Then open the folder on the PC in which you previously saved the MP3 files from the media player.

• Mark the music files you want to transfer to your cell phone and drag them with the mouse into the appropriate smartphone folder.

• As soon as the transfer is complete, you can disconnect your smartphone from the computer.