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You guys are talkin some kind of fancy tech talk and I think I may be missing something useful and interesting.... Is this thread basically asking "How can I sample from a CD without going through the analog sound card channels?" Is this possible? Can one turn a cd track into a WAV file directly? I've done this using the line out to line in on the sound card with mediocre results. What's the scoop (without too many acronyms, please!). -CF Various people wrote:

quoted 14 lines Following this thread in to the present, does anyone have a utility

> > Following this thread in to the present, does anyone have a utility > for extracting data off of CD-ROM readers (IDE or SCSI) other than > DIDO? > > I also wanted to use DIDO for sampling off CD's.. but it wouldnt > work with my CD-ROM.. apparently DIDO doesnt work with 50% > of IDE drives supplied in PC's.. if anyone knows of other utils. > please post to list... it is IDM related... :) > > Track down CDworx. It does a great job. I've used DIDO but always > got errors but CDworx hardly ever gives errrors and makes clean > copies every time. Guaranteed. >

here's my $.02 c worth i have tried cdworks, and it didnt like my cdrom, so i tried CDDA which although is dos-based, works fine.... Btw, if you want cd audio quality, the wave file runs to about 10 mb /min (full stereo 44k sample rate) if anyone wants a copy, mail me .... through the re-mailer, over the router, off the server, nothing but net in Cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.....

And of course, for linux: cdda2wav, which does the same thing.. available at: your.sunsite.mirror.here/pub/linux/apps/audio/cdrom On Fri, 20 June 1997, at 21:18:54, God of Stupidity wrote:

quoted 14 lines here's my $.02 c worth

> here's my $.02 c worth > i have tried cdworks, and it didnt like my cdrom, so i tried CDDA which > although is dos-based, works fine.... > > Btw, if you want cd audio quality, the wave file runs to about 10 mb /min > (full stereo 44k sample rate) > > > if anyone wants a copy, mail me > > .... through the re-mailer, over the router, off the server, nothing but net > > > in Cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.....

At 01:15 PM 6/19/97 -0400, you wrote:

quoted 7 lines You guys are talkin some kind of fancy tech talk and I think I may

> You guys are talkin some kind of fancy tech talk and I think I may >be missing something useful and interesting.... > > Is this thread basically asking "How can I sample from a CD >without going through the analog sound card channels?" > > Is this possible?

Yeah.

quoted 1 line Can one turn a cd track into a WAV file directly?

>Can one turn a cd track into a WAV file directly?

Yes, again. Just make sure you have alot of hard drive space.

quoted 4 lines I've done this using the line out to line in on the sound

> I've done this using the line out to line in on the sound >card with mediocre results. What's the scoop (without too many >acronyms, please!). >

I've tried that too, but got popping sounds, etc. You have to check out the program I mentioned called CDworx. It's fairly easy to find on the net. It allows you to choose where you want to start and stop on the disc too, if you don't want the whole track recorded. It has some kind of special reading process that takes out the pops and records in CD quality (well that's what the programmers for the software say but some say you can hear the degregradation in quality, I honestly can't). Some people take the WAV file that the program creates and encode it using MP3 compression. It compresses at about 11 to 1 ratio. You then can listen to your "sample" through a MP3 player like Winplay or Musearc.