I needed to RIP or copy a audio CD to my computer. Rather than download any other software to do the job I decided to use the software already installed on my system. A bit of searching around and I found that I could do it with VLC but one song at a time. If you only want a song or two, VLC is the way to go. But for a full CD try Windows Media Player - WMP.
Window Media Player
Put in your CD an d open Windows Media Player. Go to Start then look for Windows Media Player or type it in search.
In my case the CD shows up as Unknown album. You can just Rip the CD from there by Clicking on the Rip CD menu option across the top or go into the settings first, click on Rip settings then More options. here you can change the folder, format, Rip CD automatically, Eject CD after ripping, or Adjust quality by clicking on and moving the slider.
Right click on a track number like Track 1 and you can change the title by clicking on Edit and just typing it in. You can do the same thing for the Unknown artist field. Otherwise just click on the Rip Cd button. The songs go into your Music folder unless you changed that option.
When finished you'll probably get some message about Windows can't download media info...just click on OK.
In my case, in this folder: D:\Terry\Music\Unknown artist\Unknown album (2019-07-18 9-06-36 AM), are my ripped songs.
VLC
I've had to do some checking online to find out about doing it in VLC. The method I came across only allows a single file at a time. So if you only want a song or two or got the patience to do a full CD one song at a time, open VLC.
Go to Media (top left hand menu) and the click on Convert / Save pressing Ctrl+R on keyboard also works.
Click on Disc tab then check Audio CD and set the Staring Position Track number to 1, then click on convert / Save button towards the bottom.
In the next window that opens by the Profile label choose Audio - MP3 in the drop down menu.
Then click on the Browse button and in the box that opens type in the name of the song followed by .mp3 if that is the format you have chosen. I just used song.mp3 as an example. Then just click on save. And then when that box closes it goes back to convert options just click on Start button.
So VLC seems to only allow one track at a time. There is a forum post here that shows you how to create batch files to Rip a CD all at once: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=136816