Hi JimH
Thank you for your very quick reply, unfortunately I am still nonplussed. Rereading my question I realize I was not clear enough, I can monitor input from the external player but only in sound and from the outputs on the soundcard, I am unable to see anything on screen from within Media Center Program or indeed anywhere within the computer, so no, no Rip!
Although as you can guess and are correct, you are not helping an expert, far from it, I have previously managed to Rip a good number of CD's onto my HDD and more recently onto SSD using the computers built-in CD-Rom drive, even converting flac files back to WAV for a little player that uses SD memory in WAV format, but no matter how deep I fumble and perspire this has me beat! I cannot find the external player?
Cheers again
Stuart.