Click on a Setting drop-down menu, choose Custom and then Stereo Bit Rate. An alternate method is to go to the Music pulldown menu up top | Preferences | the Files tab | Import Settings button. In general, the higher the bitrate, the higher the audio fidelity, which you can change in the Import Settings window that pops up. Apple goes with a default format called AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, which the company explains rivals the quality of audio CDs and sounds as good as or better than MP3 files encoded at the same bitrate, referring to the amount of data that goes into the sound files. If you click the Import CD button in the app window, you can change the format settings dictating how songs are encoded, copied and compressed. You can edit the information to fix errors. It’s also worth noting that after inserting a CD into the drive, you can tap a CD info button in the Music app window to discover more about an album, including the artist, composer, genre and year it debuted.
Incidentally, you can continue to listen to other tunes in the Music app while a CD is being copied and imported. On some CD/DVD drives, you must press a physical button to eject a disc. When you’re finished and all the songs you want have landed in your digital library, click the Eject button near the upper right corner of the Music window to automatically remove the CD from the drive.
A circled green checkmark will appear next to tracks that have been successfully imported.Ĭlick Stop Importing to cancel a job in the middle any songs already copied will be added to your music library. You’ll see a spinning white circle with a red border while a track is in the process of being copied. So if you’d rather live without a song on the album, click the box with the check mark to deselect it.Ī a spinning white circle with a red border signifies a track is in the process of being copied a circled green checkmark signifies a track has been successfully imported. When you click Yes, the computer begins copying all the tracks that have a check mark next to their name. You can manually change track names later.Ĭlick Yes to continue (or No if you decide to bail). If the contents are still not recognized or if you’re not connected to the internet, you will see generic listings of Track 01, Track 02 and so on. If an album cannot be identified, make sure the Automatically retrieve CD track names from Internet box in Music Preferences has been selected. On all mainstream albums and many obscure ones, too, the names of the album and individual tracks will be correctly recognized through an online database, though in some cases you may be asked to confirm names if multiple matches are found. If you selected the Ask to Import CD option, a pop-up asks if you want to import the CD into your music library. Now insert the CD you want to rip into the drive. If multiple titles are found on the internet for your CD after you insert it into the drive, you’ll be asked to confirm which one you want to use. DVD and Blu-ray players also can play standard CDs. And you still listen to the discs on your prehistoric CD player, though CD-capable players are still available from brands that include Cambridge Audio, Marantz, Onkyo, Panasonic, Sony, Technics and Yamaha. While you may not be buying as much - or any - new music on physical media as you once did, many of you have also proudly held on to your old CD collection. Of course, most music aficionados nowadays get their fix listening through Spotify, Apple Music or another streaming service. Sure, that’s just 3.9 percent of total revenues for all recorded music formats, but it’s the first increase for CDs in 17 years. Sales of the discs jumped 21 percent in 2021, to $584.2 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Yet just as vinyl has been undergoing a renaissance lately, it appears CDs have also hit the comeback trail. They were less glamorous than vinyl, less cool, less tactile, less sexy, less magical.” CDs “were never about romance - they were about function,” Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield wrote in January. The sounds of nicks and scratches are part of vinyl’s charm. Compact discs may be less fragile than your old records, but music purists insist CDs can never match the aura of vinyl.
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