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How to Transfer Music to an Xbox Hard Drive

In addition to storing such files as game saves and player profiles, the hard drive for the Microsoft Xbox 360 can also save music that you can play back later on your console. You can copy digital content from a compact disc to the hard drive in a relatively simple process. This process, which is known as "ripping," should work with any CD in your collection.

Instructions

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  Power on your Xbox 360 console, making sure there is no disc in the disc tray.
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  Put a CD in the tray and close it. The Xbox 360 music player will automatically start.
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  Select the option to rip the CD. Choosing this option will copy all of the songs from the CD to the hard drive. If you want to copy only some of the tracks, manually select them before beginning the ripping process.
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  Update song information by entering the Xbox 360 Dashboard. The Xbox 360 contains a database that will automatically recognize and process song and artist information for thousands of CDs, but if yours is showing up as "Unknown" you can enter the information yourself. To do this go to "My Xbox" in the Dashboard and select the "Music Library" option.
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  Play back your music by going into "Music Library" in the "My Xbox" section of the Xbox 360 Dashboard and selecting your songs. You can play the tunes by categories such as albums, saved playlists, artists and genres.

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