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Windows 11’s Media Player brings CD ripping back from the dead

can’t remember the last time I played music on a spinning compact disc. It’s been the better part of 20 years since I spent countless hours ripping CDs into a bloated MP3 collection, trying to call the bluff on my iPod’s “10,000 song” storage capacity. But

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