Windows Media Player 11 Wont Rip

Has your windows media player rev 11 stopped allowing you to rip music? Mine did too. Read how I fixed it here.

Several months ago I went to rip a music CD I had purchased at the store down to a MP3 format so that I could upload it onto my iPod Touch music player. I was shocked and a whole lot more pissed off when I came to realize that my trusty Microsoft XP Windows Media Player which I used to do this through would no longer rip music cd's. It had never had this problem before.

I looked around online and found a lot of other people were having the same exact problem with WMP version 11.

The solutions to the problem they were tossing out was changing the sampling bit rate and as far as going into the register via regedit and mucking around with a setting there. All things easily done. Back in my tech services days I did my fair share of registry hacking so it certainly did not scare me. However, none of this stuff worked and I got so frustrated I ended up buying a 3rd party program for $20 one snowy day when I absolutely needed to rip down a song to MP3 for a project I was working on.

Here it is a few months later and I took another crack at fixing the issue and I finally got it to work.

My solution was simple: I re-downloaded the application and re-installed it. You can find the download page for the windows media player here.

I have no idea if this will work for anybody else but as is often the case with microsoft products...one person's solution is not everybody's solution so this is what happen to work for me.

- Scott