text: how do you upload a music from an ordinary cd to the computer and make it into mp3 format? i'm kind of new to this mp3 format thing, my mom received an mp3 for mothers day.  she wants to have her christian songs and prayer collection (which are in cd format) to be uploaded to her mp3.  how do i do this?    the mp3 came with a small cd and a usb cord. try using a free program it is called freerip, when you install it it will ask you to register it, dont - it stays free if you dont register.i  after ripping your music to a folder then just drag and drop all media player and all mp3 format, please note, that you can store anything on an mp3 player, just not songs, i have stored data on mp3 players and took it to a other machine and it worked, its like a miniture portable harddrive, i have gotten an mp3 player it is 256mb, i can store up to about 85 songs,    hope this helped this is the simplest way to do this, :-)