How do I rip an audio CD using VLC?

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I've been trying to use VLC to rip a CD, using the Convert / Save menu option as shown in this guide. Whenever I try this, though, no matter what settings I pick, I get a 0 byte file. What's the correct way to rip a CD to file?

Here is the answer that worked for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17607084/1310267 — elomage, Nov 30 '17 at 15:44

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '18 at 13:54

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I had the same problem. It turned out that in the first menu 'start position' was set to track "0". Simply changing it to 1 or whatever track you want to rip should solve it

answered Jan 12 '18 at 13:54

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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Try resetting your preferences, by going to Tools->Preferences and clicking on Reset Preferences. Apparently changing the bitrate even once garbles the output.

You might also try this batch file.

There are many other ripping tools recommended on Superuser, as well (see here for Linux, and here for Windows).

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answered Nov 07 '16 at 15:31

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Chris, you soliloquized? You say to yourself, "Try resetting your preferences"? :)) – Leo Chapiro Nov 07 '16 at 15:38
Just following house style :P – Chris Nov 07 '16 at 15:39
Aaand in the end the conversion stuttered, so I ended up using WMP to rip and VLC to convert the ripped file. – Chris Nov 07 '16 at 16:39
Since you are moving beyond VLC -- check http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ – nik Nov 07 '16 at 17:24

How do I rip an audio CD using VLC?

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