Groove Music didn’t include CD-ripping capabilities, nor did the rebranded Media Player (the new one that doesn’t look like a Vista program) launched last year based on the same code. (But if you’ve been upgrading your Windows build for a while, you might still have the “classic” Windows Media Player still installed, even on Windows 11.)
It was a part of more or less every music manager program for decades, notably the competing iTunes and Windows Media Player, but the feature has been notably absent from Windows since the application was replaced with Groove Music in Windows 8, which itself converted into the now-default Media Player app in Windows 11. If you’re not old enough to remember the premiere of Lost, CD ripping is the act of copying the uncompressed music of a CD onto a computer, typically in a compressed format like MP3. But apparently someone at Microsoft is still rocking a CD player, because a forthcoming update to Windows 11’s Media Player app will bring CD ripping back from the dead.
It’s been the better part of 20 years since I spent countless hours ripping CDs into a bloated MP3 collection, trying to call the bluff on my iPod’s “10,000 song” storage capacity. I can’t remember the last time I played music on a spinning compact disc.
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