Stupid question time - putting a CD onto a Microsoft Surface

[TinkTatoo]

DS is teaching himself Japanese, the workbook he's using comes with a CD and he'd like to get it onto his Microsoft Surface but it doesn't have a CD drive.

I'm assuming I can use an old laptop of mine that has a CD drive and then put the audio file on to a USB key for him but is it as straight forward as that or do I need some sort of software to convert it and would he need software to play it?

Appreciate any help

[shack69]

it maybe as simple as ripping the audio from the CD and windows media player does this for you. But it could be that the CD is more then just audio , if so then you would need to start to look at creating a virtual CD or something similar.
If you get stuck you could always buy a USB DVD player for around £12 from ebay.

[TinkTatoo]

Thanks, I’ll try it using media player and see how I get on

[TinkTatoo]

The CD contained files as well as audio but all I had to do was drag it onto a USB key and from there onto the Surface. Worked a treat