Ripping to MP3 With Windows Media Player

[Shannon]

Yep, you can rip to mp3 using WMP 8+ using a few simple registry tweaks.

Modify the following strings and you should then be able to go to Tools > Options and under Copy Music there should be an mp3 option.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\MP3Encoding]
"LowRate"=dword:0001F400
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\MP3Encoding]
"MediumRate"=dword:0002EE00
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\MP3Encoding]
"MediumHighRate"=dword:0003E800
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\MP3Encoding]
"HighRate"=dword:0004E200

If you are afraid of editing the registry, or don't know what to do, I'll attach a reg file to do it for you.

 

[epic]

👍 Nice, I use Streambox Ripper though, its free and does the job nicely. and is under 20 damn MB lol

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by epic
👍 Nice, I use Streambox Ripper though, its free and does the job nicely. and is under 20 damn MB lol

Yeah. I probably won't use the feature myself either. I just thought it was strange how Microsoft built mp3 ripping support into WMP when they hate it so much.

 

[toyomatt84]

It is quite strange. I use itunes for ripping mp3's though.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Why would you use this when you can use Exact Audio Copy or CDex coupled with LAME?

Insane!