Oh – yet another way in which Microsoft has made my, and others’, lives much more easy.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> You open Tools->Options->Rip Music.\u00a0 You see that the ‘Rip music to this location’ is blank – so you click ‘Change’ to set it.\u00a0 But nothing happens.\u00a0 Click, click, click.\u00a0 No dialog opens to allow you\u00a0 to set the output directory.\u00a0 Any time you try to rip the CD, you get the same error saying it can’t rip.\u00a0 You try running the Troubleshooting app and reset all the user settings to default.\u00a0 Still no luck.<\/p>\n You either have to re-create that directory (from memory) – or do THIS highly intuitive operation to fix it:<\/p>\n 1. Start menu -> right click ‘Music’ and get the properties.<\/p>\n 2. Either: see what directory has a checkmark by it and re-create that directory\/re-attach the drive, or add\/pick a listed directory that DOES exist – (i.e c:users”your user”)<\/p>\n 3. Right click on a directory that does exist, and select\u00a0 ‘Set as default save location’<\/p>\n Close and reopen media player.\u00a0 This will solve the problem.\u00a0 The fact that clicking on the ‘Change’ button doesn’t work is just fundamentally broke.\u00a0 That needs fixing.\u00a0 Also, fix the automated troubleshooter to actually reset the default location back to something sane too. The troubleshooter is broken as well.<\/p>\n Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh – yet another way in which Microsoft has made my, and others’, lives much more easy. Problem: You open Windows Media Player, and try to rip a CD, but it won’t rip despite the fact you’ve done this dozens of times before.\u00a0 You get the message ‘Windows Media Player cannot rip one or more tracks from this CD’. You open Tools->Options->Rip Music.\u00a0 You see that the ‘Rip music to this location’ is blank – so you click ‘Change’ to…<\/p>\n
\nYou open Windows Media Player, and try to rip a CD, but it won’t rip despite the fact you’ve done this dozens of times before.\u00a0 You get the message ‘Windows Media Player cannot rip one or more tracks from this CD’.<\/p>\n
\nSolution:<\/strong>
\nThe problem is caused because the drive and\/or directory media player had been pointing to no longer exists, and the change directory button doesn’t work IF THE ORIGINAL DIRECTORY OR DRIVE IS GONE.\u00a0 Too bad you can’t change where it is pointing at.\u00a0 Too bad you also can’t even see what it THINKS it should be pointing at to recreate it.\u00a0 Guess you’ll just have to remember the path from memory.\u00a0 Shucks – that’s great design.<\/p>\n