question for the list:
today at my day gig my colleague was finishing up a little video
animation and needed to add a bit of sound to it. he dug out one of
royalty-free music CDs but couldn't figure out how to get the audio off
of it. my colleague, though talented, uses windows xp. he asked me how
to extract the audio via windows. all the files showed up as 1kb .cda
(or something like that) files.
i stuck it in my mac (10.2) and simply dragged and dropped the .aiff
files to my desktop and passed them to him via our LAN. i was curious
and stuck the disk in the PC on my desk. windoze explorer shows the
files as these stupid little 1kb .cda (or something like that) files.
real player offered to let me copy them to my PC but as compressed real
player files, .wav files or .mp3s. i couldn't figure out to even rip it
with winamp.
so, windows loyalists (or simply users, probably aren't any loyalists
on this list (maybe chris fahey ;-))), what's the deal? one can't get
the original, uncompressed audio track off a CD via windows? you need
to use a 3rd party app? can't do it with the OS? if one is importing
audio into an after affects project, flash project, director project,
FCP project etc one would want to start with the highest quality audio
one can get. if your source is a CD that means an .aiff.
waiting patiently.
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<t.whid>
www.mteww.com
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M$ windows and audio CDs
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">hi,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I passed this one to my in-house composer
(husband!)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">j.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">you wrote </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">>what's the deal?
one can't get</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> the original,
uncompressed audio track off a CD via windows? you need</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> to use a 3rd
party app? can't do it with the OS? if one is importing</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> audio into an
after affects project, flash project, director project,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> FCP project etc
one would want to start with the highest quality audio</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> one can get.
if your source is a CD that means an .aiff.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">No it doesn't. An aiff file, or a
raw pcm file or a wav file all contain the same data </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">(44.1khz, 16-bit stereo if it's from
a CD orginally), just the header info is different.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Xp allows you to rip directly from
an audio CD using Media Player but only in wma </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">format. I always use Audiograbber
to rip them as wav files.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Clive</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> o</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">/^ rssgallery.com</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> ][</span></font></div>
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