Urgent-Ripping a song from cd

Hi

Need to urgently somehow rip a song from cd without an optical drive to my laptop?

Is there anyway possible? Right now have no access of getting an external drive. Plus no Desktop.

Please help.

 

Impossible.

Obtain file off CD without optical drive.

Maybe you could run your finger across it reading the bumps and input the 1 and 0's into a file lol.


Download the song off the net?

 

Apple - iTunes - Everything you need to be entertained.

Amazon.com MP3: Shop 17 million songs and play your music on your Kindle Fire, Android device, PC, Mac, or iPad with Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player.

 

What they said, though I'm curious to know what kind of solution you thought may have existed... hold up the cd in front of your webcam in a dark room while a program shines infrared and reads of the cd while you rotate it manually?

 

ie. build an optical drive

If it's actually urgent, you can repurchase as digital download via iTunes / elsewhere. That's the cheapest solution for the single event. Otherwise, you can get a USB optical drive if you want to read more CDs in the future.

They're probably about $25-30 at the cheapest.

Scratch that. No name brand $15 on eBay. Victory.

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I guess if you really wanted to do this, and it was urgent to read the data off of the disc, and you were restricted to not using an optical drive, I suppose the best solution would be to use a microscope and manually read the data off of the disc. It would still fail the urgency of this because reading the data manually would be error prone and time intensive. It may not be obvious even under the microscope whether or not each bit is 0 or 1, you may need to acquire a laser from an optical drive, or a similar laser elsewhere to test each bit. You'll also need to find documentation online which covers the file structure of the CD to derive the meaning of the bit sequence you find.

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probably a $15 optical drive would work better

 

If this were really legit and i'm starting to question the premise. The OP can easily buy an external USB drive @ Office Depot, Walmart, BB, Radio Shack and rip the CD.

 

I think the OP either didn't think this through completely or had no idea how a CD worked, which is fine, but here we are.

 

Visit a library, internet cafe, fedex office, hotel business center or similar and rip it with a public computer (recomend EAC)

Then put it on a flash drive or email it to yourself.

Some public computers are locked from installing programs so make sure you check that first.

 

It was 9pm nothing was open. I was remixing a song for a mate of mine and accidentally left the mp3 flash drive at another place which was locked up and had to finished this demo by 10.30pm to be played at a night club for his opening. The only copy i had was a cd in the car and trust me i tried every shop that was open but no one sold external drive. So i panic quickly came on here for advise. Still had to edited,mixed and finalized the last verse. In the end we had to postpone the opening for next week. Not in the good books right now btw could nt download the song as we produced this ourselves.

 

Should upload it somewhere next time as well for safety

 

Indeed, not a good experience, but for that kind of important data, it isn't a bad idea to have a backup and a backup of the backup. Having one of those backups on the cloud wouldn't be a bad idea either