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How to rip an Audio CD to AAC (M4B)
on Mac OS X using Music Man
You can use Music Man to rip Audio CDs to M4B. You can rip the entire CD or just the selected tracks.
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How to rip an Audio CD to M4B format
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Insert an Audio CD into the CD drive. If it is playing, click the Stop button on the Play tab to stop it. (You can't rip a CD while it is playing.
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Click the Rip tab.
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Use the Advanced Settings to reconfigure the Quality and Ripped File Name format. Remember that the better the quality you choose the larger the file will be on your hard disk.
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To rip just some Tracks, select those tracks (shift or apple click to select multiple tracks), click the Rip drop down menu and select the menu item titled Selected To M4B.
To rip the entire CD, click the Rip drop down menu and select the menu item titled All To M4B.
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Select the folder where the ripped M4B files should be stored and click the Save button.
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Notes
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- AAC, short for Advanced Audio Coding, is the audio encoding format used by the MPEG-4 Standard. While AAC must be licensed on a per application basis on the Windows operating system, there are no license requirements for using AAC in applications on Mac OS X. There are file extensions used - M4A, M4P and M4B. Unprotected AAC uses the extensions .m4a and .m4b, protected AAC uses the extensions .m4p and .m4b.
- Unprotected AAC (M4A, unprotected M4B) can be played on your computer using music player software such as Music Man. Unprotected AAC (M4A, unprotected M4B) can be converted to other formats.
- DRM Protected AAC (M4P, protected M4B) can be played on your computer using music player software such as Music Man. DRM Protected AAC (M4P, protected M4B) CANNOT be converted to other formats. For more information about DRM, go to "All about DRM Protected music on Mac"
- AAC (M4A, M4B, M4P) can be played on your Mac using music player software such as Music Man. AAC (M4A) can also be played on an iPod
- For more information about AAC, go to the MPEG Site
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