Cd won't rip using Windows Media Player in windows 7

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I just got Windows 7 a few weeks ago and have had no trouble until now to rip cds.

It now however shows "windows media player cannot rip one or more tracks from the cd"

I have gone into TOOLS - OPTIONS - DEVICES - DRIVE , clicked Use error connection (both playback and rip are defaulted to digital) No change

I have gone to RIP MUSIC tab and tried to slide the Audio Quality bar and/or change the rip format, but when I do I get "the settings for ripping music could not be suppied" and they reset to original settings.

I have gone into Registry Editor and deleted the low rate MP3 encoding rate and still no change - it just keeps giving me the "windows media player cannot rip one or more tracks from the cd".

any ideas??????????

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Open WMP

Go into Tools - Options - Rip Music and see if you have a location the music is being ripped to. I didn't when I looked, it was blank.

then go to Organise - Manage Libraries - Music, there should be a music folder location here, if there isn't press "add" and add the music folder.

Now do the same for the other 3 libraries, Videos, Pictures and Recorded tv, all should have locations, delete the ones without a location.

try to rip again.

hopefully like me you will be off and running again.

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Anonymous

2012-05-04T18:44:34+00:00

Can you change the rip music location when running WMP as administrator (right-click the WMP icon - Run as administrator), or do you still get the same issues?

If that still doesn't help, you will probably have to switch to a new user profile. For instructions on that, see

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile
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Anonymous

2012-05-03T18:42:06+00:00

Tried a clean boot and followed your instructions but it didn't help.
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Anonymous

2012-05-01T14:40:27+00:00
Can you change the rip music location (or go to Manage libraries - Music) in Clean Boot mode?

I suggest that you try resetting the media library. First note that resetting the library will make you lose all current play counts, and possibly ratings too. Then, follow these steps:
- Reboot the PC.
- Go to Start, type services.msc in the Search field, and press Enter. In Services, find the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service. If its status is Started, double-click the service and click Stop.
- Go to Start, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft in the Search field, and press Enter. This folder will open up in Windows Explorer.
- In this folder, delete the Media Player folder. If you can't see the folder, then it's probably hidden. Set Explorer to show hidden files and folders, and to show protected system files.
- Start WMP, your library will have been reset and will be rebuilt. Check if the issue still occurs.
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Anonymous

2012-04-30T00:02:44+00:00

I suggest that you try restoring the default libraries (your actual media files will not be lost). For instructions, see:http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-error-library-ms-is-no-longer-working-windows-7/

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-error-library-ms-is-no-longer-working-windows-7

Does that help?

followed directions - did not fix it.
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