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Originally the "Tech Support Pits" were reports of the funniest tech support incidents, but over the years the
column gradually shifted to answering tech support questions put forward by the readers of the Dear
Webby Humor Letter.
This collection of computer and web advice was started partly because readers demanded an archive, and partly
because some questions were asked again and again. Each page has a different day's Tech Support Pits column.
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Tech Support Pits column from Dear Webby's Humor Letter of
09/22/03: Audio Ripper
Tech Support Pits:
From Mellie===
Dear Webby
I've gotten alot of good tips from you, and for that I thank you.
Here's a problem I'm hoping that someone can help me solve.
I have several audio files on my hard drive that's too large for
the standard 80 minute CD. Is there any way to split those
files so that I can put these onto disks? I do have them zipped
and backed up, but I'd rather put it on a disk so I can play
them in a CD player. Any suggestions?? I'm running xp on my
system.
Thanks mellie
Dear Mellie
If those files don't fit onto a CD, then they came from a DVD.
There are quite a few programs that will let you put a DVD or
parts of one onto regular CD's.
Don't buy any of the crap advertised by spammers. There are
plenty of those programs available for free, and most likely
the spammers are just trying to con you into paying for one of
the many free ones.
The general term for those programs is "Audio Ripper", even
though they work for movies too. Originally they were used to
"rip off" the music from Music DVD's and make bootleg copies.
The name stuck.
PC-World recommends the ones at this page:
C-Net has a ton of them listed here:
Google has another huge list of them here:
I haven't used any of them and can't recommend one over the
other, but you sure have a huge offering to chose from.
Have FUN!
DearWebby
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