How to Rip/Copy Music (from Music Videos, MP3s WMAs, OGGs etc) for Free

Contributed by risherz  
Tagged: Windows  

Using basic software you can copy any kind of music! By default you will have a application called Sound Recorder on your computer. Many people don’t know the capabilities of this application.

Using this application you can RECORD ANYTHING that you can hear from your speakers. ANYTHING! Sounds, music you name it.

So here’s a tip: If you don’t want to download songs or you can only listen to songs/music videos on your computer you can record it.

This is how you do it.

1. Find the Volume icon on your system tray (chances are its hidden)
2. Double click on it
3. Go to options
4. Click on Properties
5. Under “Adjust Volume for” Select Recording
7. Check “Wave Out Mix”
8. Click on OK
9. Select the check box beside “Select”
10. Make sure the volume is set to the lowest setting by moving the slider down, or else what you record might be

Now the Sound Recorder is configured to get its input from the source that feeds the speakers.

Then open Sound Recorder

1. Click on Start
2. All Programs
3. Accessories
4. Entertainment
5. All programs
6. Sound Recorder

Note: you might want to record a empty file before continuing any further, because sound recorder will stop recording after 60 seconds. So what you do is press record and keep pressing record until the “Length” of the blank file is something more than the length of your songs that you are going to record (you can delete the rest afterwards). Then save it and open the same file when you want to record something…

The sound recorder box will pop-up

1. Open up the empty file
2. Open the song that you want to record
3. Click on Play (for playing the song that you want to record)
4. Quickly hit Alt+tab to switch to sound recorder.
5. Hit the round brown button to record.

Now you can listen to the music while Sound Recorder records it for you! Just press stop (square button) to stop recording. Then just go to File > Save as and save your freshly recorded song.

Your song will record in .wav format so you might want to get a mp3 encoder and convert that into mp3 if you are putting it into your mp3 player (just to save some space so you can get more songs in there)

Now you can enjoy the songs that YOU created!