Best way to get audio from a CD onto my E drive?

So I've got a bunch of old live recordings on CD/DVD that I want to copy onto storage HDD. I thought I could just copy the files and paste them on the drive but it didn't copy the actual music, just the track info. I don't want to rip them with WMP because then it gets store in the library and converts the files. I just want the waves for now so I can go through them and then import the good stuff into X2. How can I just copy the data? Sorry, this is kind of a n00b question I guess but I really thought I could just copy it all like I do with wavs from my thumb drive. Also the first CD isn't calling the file type .wav or anything. It just says CD Audio Track. I've never seen that before. 

My OS is Win 7 Pro 64 and the only audio programs I have installed is Win Media Player and X2.

Thanks.

@tK... Yeah, I'll do that as a last resort but I was hoping to just get them off the CDs today. Thanks though.

Also, as long as I'm on the subject, I also have some videos of shows I'd like to yank the audio from and toss into Sonar. How do I go about that? And to take it even further... how do I put the newly mix/mastered audio back onto the video (but that last part isn't going to happen for a while)?

Cheers.

Beepster- I may be misunderstanding what you're trying to do but you've already got X2

1) Open X2, close QuickStart, Press Ctrl-N for a new un-named project
2) File, import audio cd, select the tracks you want and import. each will go to a seperate track in sonar
3) If tracks aren't already named, name them as you want the wav files named.
4) export, choose tracks as source, 16-bit/44.1 if you want to keep them same resolution
5) choose location and export

That's because they are audio CDs, which do not contain files. They are raw audio tracks in audio CD format. So the only way to convert the tracks to files is to rip them.

Scott

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Hey Beepster, you can change Windows Media Player settings to import as Wave which is what you want...

Options/Rip Music/Format/Wave(Lossless)
 
This will also name and organize the files into folders by artist/album/song
Just delete them later from the library when you don't want them.

Thanks for the heads up but I've already started importing into Sonar. I guess I might as well because that's where it's gonna end up eventually anyway... however now it seems it's creating a track for every song. Not really what I was expecting but I guess it might make things easier anyway. Most of the other ones are one long file though I think so that is more what I was anticipating. Ah... as much as I learn there is always more stuff to wrap my head around. Cheers.