I havent had limewire that long, and i was wondering, how do you upload songs from like cds and ish to your library?
i know its a stupid question but heres another

is there a way to add custom folders to your library to organize your tracks in?

thanks for your help!

You can't use LimeWire to upload songs from CD's to put into your LimeWire library. What I use to do that is Dell Jukebox.

As for the second question I don't think that you can put folders into the library.

the process of converting cd audio tracks into mp3 is called 'ripping'. as only a hobo says you should really get additional software to do this and not use limewire.

my favourite is nero.

click here to download and get information on it!

you do have to pay for it but according to download.com, over 16 million users have downloaded the nero suite. 16 million people can't be wrong can they! if you need any help in 'purchasing' this program *pm* me


plus it doesn't just rip cd's, it rips dvd's, allows you to burn and create dvd with your own start up screen, plus loads and loads more! 5 star product mate!

We have Nero but we only use it for burning DVD's. We would have to uninstall our Sonic RecordNow if we wanted to use Nero for CD ripping.

What I like about iTunes when you share the library is it's all organised by artist>album. eg: iTunes shared library iTunes as a ripper is middle of the road. It's not the very best, but it's a long way from being poor. I always use variable bit rate conversion to mp3 or m4a. But I generally copy or rip the songs from CD to HDD 1st in aiff format before converting to another compressed format. For windows that would be equivalent to wav format. Then converting to mp3. I always aim for 192 kbps + in quality depending on the music & song. But that's a personal approach. Only rarely do I encode less than 192 kbps vbr. VBR is much, much better than CBR!!! (Constant bit rate.) The same applies to video. VBR is easier for the player to handle. It also results in more levelled results so there's no unnecessary conversion of frequency ranges at a rate that is unnecessary & under converting bits of music that deserve more. CBR doesn't allow for that.

You recommeding iTunes? I never would have guessed that! *lol*

if you are looking for your first music/media player, you might check out the poll in here about them. the thread is listed under "media player" dated this month.

once you "rip" a song it goes to your music file, that's where you can customize your files.
some media players have preferences you can set to accept or play different file extensions.
i think windows media player is limited on what it will accept. i-tunes will convert files when you import to library and converts for i-pod. when you import to realplayer you can still see the original file ext. it converts (mine) to mp3 at 192 kbs, when you burn a cd. i have yet to find an ext that "realplayer" doesn't play. i use i-tunes now but still learning.

realplayer.com & rhapsody.com have free trials. i'm sure there are other free media players out there.