How did it happen? OK, I'm old school trying to be new school. I have about a bizillion CD's and had been carrying 48 or so in my car to listen to. Got tired of searching searching for...

pdsdville Loc: Midlothian, Tx

OK, I'm old school trying to be new school. I have about a bizillion CD's and had been carrying 48 or so in my car to listen to. Got tired of searching searching for the one I wanted so I decided to load them onto a Zip drive. First step, rip them to my desktop, very successful until I came to one I had bought on line. I ripped it and all the titles were on my desktop. I then switched to copy to my Zip drive and another set of songs showed up by a completely different artist. I wanted songs by "The Devil's Daughters" and when I went to move them to the Zip, Johnny Mathis showed up. I have no CD's by Johnny Mathis. I tried several times and while all the other CD's did loaded perfectly, this one just would not. Any ideas what might have happened?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

What are you using to rip and copy?
(That might help a lot in getting your question answered.....)

Is a ZIP drive no longer a floppy?

GEngel-usmc Loc: Spencerport NY - I miss Lakeland, FL

[quote=pdsdville]OK, I'm old school trying to be new school.

Zip Drive? Is that a mistake? They’ve been dead for a decade(s) or more.
Maybe you meant Flash Drives?

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

[quote=GEngel-usmc]

pdsdville wrote:

OK, I'm old school trying to be new school.

Zip Drive? Is that a mistake? They’ve been dead for a decade(s) or more.
Maybe you meant Flash Drives?

From Wikipedia:

The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was introduced by Iomega in late 1994. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.

goofybruce

Since you downloaded it on-line, perhaps it is in a different format or computer language than the CDs which copied over. As a result, the text got downloaded, but the music files just don't copy over well. It may be a proprietary format to keep 'downloaders' from making copies to sell/give away. Just a thought.....

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

pdsdville wrote:

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Listen to the Johnny Mathis — maybe some spirit is trying to channel a memory or emotion to you!

Huggins36

Longshadow wrote:

What are you using to rip and copy?
(That might help a lot in getting your question answered.....)

Is a ZIP drive no longer a floppy?

Hello---`I have 100+ cds, classical, big band, jazz, country and doowop that I'm going to donate to the St. Albans veteran's hospital here in Queens N.Y. I would like to copy some of them to a flash drive/disk? I have Ashampoo Burning Studio 22 on my computer. Any help in this matter would be appreciated.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Huggins36 wrote:

Hello---`I have 100+ cds, classical, big band, jazz, country and doowop that I'm going to donate to the St. Albans veteran's hospital here in Queens N.Y. I would like to copy some of them to a flash drive/disk? I have Ashampoo Burning Studio 22 on my computer. Any help in this matter would be appreciated.

Well, I have over 275 CDs and imported them all into iTunes on the desktop.
Now I have LOTS of music files that I can selectively copy elsewhere, like a thumb drive or another PC.

BebuLamar

The OP must mean the USB thumb drive as I don't think you can play music on a Zip drive in a car even though I have a Zip drive with USB interface.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar wrote:

The OP must mean the USB thumb drive as I don't think you can play music on a Zip drive in a car even though I have a Zip drive with USB interface.

If the file structure is the same, I would imagine it would probably work.
Might want to try it for kicks & giggles.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

A Zip drive is decidedly NOT “new school”. Some CD’s include the metadata, including song titles and album info, but not all do. Depending on the software you’re using to rip the CD’s it could be looking up data and getting the wrong info.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

SuperflyTNT wrote:

A Zip drive is decidedly NOT “new school”. Some CD’s include the metadata, including song titles and album info, but not all do. Depending on the software you’re using to rip the CD’s it could be looking up data and getting the wrong info.

Depends on what is included in the file(s) placed on the CD when it was made.
Some may have the meta data, some may not.

Yes, some of the ripping software goes on the internet and looks for stuff like jacket cover images.

BebuLamar

Longshadow wrote:

If the file structure is the same, I would imagine it would probably work.
Might want to try it for kicks & giggles.

OK I will have to try. I still have quite a few blank Zip disks. I have to rip it into MP3 because in the uncompressed format a 250MB disk won't hold 1 album.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar wrote:

OK I will have to try. I still have quite a few blank Zip disks. I have to rip it into MP3 because in the uncompressed format a 250MB disk won't hold 1 album.

I think my car requires MP3 format.

Laramie Loc: Tempe

pdsdville wrote:

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What are you trying to do with your music? Store it or listen to it? I doubt your car has a zip drive installed, but who knows? I have ~1100 CDs ripped to mp3 then stored on my PC. I copy all to a mp3 player to listen in the car.