Question: Ripping Music onto Flash Drive

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Has anybody here ripped music from CDs onto flash drives? If so, I'm wondering what minimum capacity the flash drive needs to be to hold just one music cd. TIA.
 

I think it's unlikely you would find a way to record High Definition digital audio format to the same on a flash drive.
CD recording is done in such a way as to prevent that type of copying. It would be way too easy to sell black market recordings.
However, you can record digitally to MP3 format. I have done it thousands of times.
If you're curious I could step you through it.
For the record, in MP3 format you can store huge amounts of recordings on a flash drive with 64Gb or 128.
 
A music CD, when converted to MP3 files, would typically be in the range of 70 to 180 megabytes (MB), depending on the chosen bitrate (quality) you rip it at. The most common "good quality" MP3s (192 kbps or 256 kbps) would likely fall in the 100-150 MB range. A 128 kbps one could be in the 70 meg range.
 

I rip cds to mp3 files on my hard drive using windows media player (WMP) legacy version.
I have my destination folder set to a folder on my c: drive in Rip Settings in WMP Legacy.
I would recommend doing that and then copying the resulting mp3 files one at a time to a flash drive so that you can see how much room its going to take and whether you're running out of space.
 
officerripley said:
Has anybody here ripped music from CDs onto flash drives?
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Yep, used to all the time, all my CD & DVDs are ripped to storage media.

officerripley said:
If so, I'm wondering what minimum capacity the flash drive needs to be to hold just one music cd. TIA.
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A CD is typically 700 MB so the flash drive would have to be that size or larger. The smallest flash drive I see on sale these days is 8GB. You can buy a 64GB flash drive for under 8 bucks.
 
Thanks, all. I was planning to use Win Media Player, which I guess uses MP3? Anyway, what I'm trying to do is: our new car doesn't have a CD player in it; Huzz wants to be able to keep playing the music from his 11 CDs in the car but absolutely refuses to use a Spotify account or something to play the music using his phone, just won't.

So using Win Media Player, I'd like to put the music on flash drives but only want to put one and only one cd on each flash drive to make it easier for him (and neither he or I want him while driving messing around with trying to find a particular album on a flash drive). So since I'm going to have to buy eleven separate flash drives, in order to keep costs down at least a little, want to get the lowest capacity that'll work.

So @Nathan, sounds like a 1 gb drive would be sufficient? (I've actually seen both 1s and 2s for sale.)

Thanks again, all.
 
officerripley said:
Thanks, all. I was planning to use Win Media Player, which I guess uses MP3? Anyway, what I'm trying to do is: our new car doesn't have a CD player in it; Huzz wants to be able to keep playing the music from his 11 CDs in the car but absolutely refuses to use a Spotify account or something to play the music using his phone, just won't.

So using Win Media Player, I'd like to put the music on flash drives but only want to put one and only one cd on each flash drive to make it easier for him (and neither he or I want him while driving messing around with trying to find a particular album on a flash drive). So since I'm going to have to buy eleven separate flash drives, in order to keep costs down at least a little, want to get the lowest capacity that'll work.

So @Nathan, sounds like a 1 gb drive would be sufficient? (I've actually seen both 1s and 2s for sale.)

Thanks again, all.
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Yes, that would do it. If you got a larger drive for a couple bucks more you could put your entire music collection on it.
 
Does anyone have a MP3 player they would recommend? I have a lot of music on Apple & I know my I-Pod won't last forever. I would rather use an MP3 in my vehicle for music since CDs aren't in the new cars.
 
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