Editing Windows Media Player (section)

===Disc burning, ripping, and playback===
Windows Media Player features integrated [[Audio CD]]-burning support since version 7 as well as data CD burning support since Windows Media Player 9 Series on [[Windows XP]] and later. Data CDs can have any of the media formats supported by the player. While burning Data CDs, the media can, optionally, be transcoded into WMA format and playlists can be added to the CD as well. Starting with WMP 9 Series, audio CDs can be burnt with volume leveling.

Audio CDs can be ripped as WMA or WMA 10 Pro (WMA 10 Pro in WMP 11 and later) at 48, 64, 96, 128, 160, and 192 [[Kilobit per second|kbit/s]], [[Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless|WMA lossless]] (470 to 940&nbsp;kbit/s) (9 Series on XP and later), WMA [[variable bitrate]] (from 40 to 75&nbsp;kbit/s up to 240-355&nbsp;kbit/s), MP3 at 128, 192, 256, and 320&nbsp;kbit/s, or uncompressed [[WAV]] (WAV ripping in WMP 11 and later). Since WMP 9 Series, 20 bit high-resolution CDs ([[High Definition Compatible Digital|HDCDs]]) are also supported, if capable audio hardware is present. Audio can be ripped using error correction and ripped audio can be protected with [[Windows Media DRM]]. Ripping to MP3 is supported only in Windows Media Player 8 for [[Windows XP]] and later if a compatible MP3 encoder is installed. Windows Media Player 10 included the Fraunhofer MP3 Professional encoder. Information on CDs such as album name, artist and track listings can optionally be automatically downloaded from the online Windows Media database when the CD is inserted. Version 11 added support for ripping audio CDs to [[WAV]] and [[WMA Pro|WMA 10 Pro]] formats. With their 2015 implementation in Windows 10, Version 12 also added lossless [[FLAC]] and [[Apple Lossless Audio Codec|ALAC]] formats for ripping and playback. For burning, version 11 shows a graphical bar indicating how much space will be used on the disc and introduced ''Disc spanning'' which splits a burn list onto multiple discs in case the content does not fit on one disc.