yeah you can rip...ok well you rip it with windows media player...the artist and all the stuff is usualy saved in your musci folders under rips as either unkown artist (date of rip) or unkown album (date of rip) you can rename the files to their original name and them transfer them to your shared folder or whatever you have assign limewire to save music files...it should auto add to the library if you put it in the right folder....if you just got limwire and havent changed any settings then the folder is shared....