Copying CD's onto a Flash Drive

[The Reporter]

I've got a reasonably new hi-fi system fitted in my car and it comes with a USB port as well as CD player, Radio, WMA, MP3 and some other modern technology (something about bluetooth lol)... I have hundreds of CD's and love to listen to them whilst commuting to work (over two hours a day). On my previous computer (a laptop) I had software installed that could copy my (original) CD's onto the hard drive, then copy all or some of these onto either blank CD's or a flash drive. The software I had on the laptop was Nero but the resulting quality was was poor, which may have been because the flash drive was a cheap one or because the files were saved in MP3 format.... Unfortunately, I don't seem to have any similar software on this newish pc. I've just bought a 4GB flash drive and want to put a load of music onto it - saves having loads of expensive CD's in the car. I've looked in my list of programs (the OS is Vista Home Premium) and can only see Windows Media Centre but that only seems to be able to burn from the hard drive to a blank cd/dvd, which is only half the process... or am I being dull ?

[MrBounty]

You can use Media Player to "rip" the music to your Hard Drive (in MP3 format), then you could just copy them to your Flash Drive.

Or you could use something like iTunes to do the same job.

Either way, it's easy to copy the music onto your PC.....

[The Reporter]

Many thanks - I was looking at the Windows Media CENTRE.... not the Windows Media Player - very different ! You are so right, really easy to use.... I'm about 1/10 way through my record collection .....