Extracting .WAV files from CD using WMP?

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Is there a plug-in available that allows Windows Media Player to Rip music
from a CD using the uncompressed .WAV format (as opposed to WMA or MP3) ?

Thanks in advance

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EAC can do this, but you'll end up w/ very big files (but you knew that,
right?). There are other loss-less means to rip that result in smaller
files than .wav; WMP 10 in fact has a "wma lossless" choice under its rip
options.

But, EAC is still the best ripper out there, tho not exactly a novice
tool.

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de

the links page has links to good tutorials, and search w/ google for other
info sites, EAC is quite popular and there are several third-party
tutorial/tip sites.

You'll also most likely want to mate it w/ LAME:

http://mitiok.free.fr/

but it can use just about any encoder out there (ogg-vorbis, etc).