Besides playing digital music and video files, Windows Media Player can “rip” (extract individual music tracks from a music CD) and convert them to a compressed format for storage on your computer’s hard drive. Windows Media Player can play a large variety of formats, but you must choose a particular format for ripping, such as MP3, some flavor of WMA, or WAV. The latter is actually the uncompressed format you’ll find on commercial CDs. Writer Bio
