OK, so it will technically rip them, but at around 0.5x, which is unacceptable. I'm not really sure what information would be relevant to helping me with this issue, but I'll post a bunch of info here ...

Learn how to rip CDs on Windows and Mac so that you can turn a physical format into a digital one. In ancient times—back in 2001—people knew how to do this, but much that should have been remembered ...

My 25gig collection of audio is sourced from discs that I've bought, and it'd be very handy to compile some of these tracks onto CD-R to build up genre-specific playlists for my Xbox.