Recording wav. files from CD

[IanB]

Can any kind member tell me how I can take a clip of music off an audio CD for a wav. file to transmit to my father-in-law? He's just got his first PC at the age of 88 and lives six thousand miles away from me in Vancouver, so it's worth the effort!

Any replies gratefully received


Ian B

Sunderland, GB

[WhoKnowsWho]

Windows has a program called Sound Recorder (Start Button, Programs, Accessories, Entertainment) that you can use to record from different inputs. Use the Multimedia settings from the control panel to select the cd-rom as the source, and use the Sound Recorder program to record it.

[LJE2]

If sound recorder doesn't fit your needs, (I think the max clip you can record with sound recorder is 60 seconds) try this shareware called "Cool Edit 96" it's a great program, http://www.syntrillium.com/cooledit/index.html

[philipg]

Another program you can try is a Stereo display type that lets you Play the CDROM adjust EQ settings and record in multi-formats.

If you goto www.zdnet.com and type stereo in the search box on the web page look under downloads for your choice of stereo's.

Hope this helps you out I use zdnet for all my freeware needs.

[IanB]

Many thanks for all your responses. What a wonderful service this is!


Ian B
Sunderland, GB

[AuraEdge]

Most of those 'rippers' will only rip at Max quality, entirely too large for file tranfers. You would be best too not look for 'rippers' if you want to create small managable .wav's that you can send him over the net

[steves]

Visit www.mp3.com for info on 'rippers' which extract audio tracks to wav (and compress to mp3) or (as philipg says) the downloads section at www.zdnet.com. I used 'cdex' it's free and simple.

P.S. Philipg~your french was a bit amis a couple of days ago 'whalla' is spelt 'voila' (with an accent somewhere) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Help! I've restrained myself from complaining about the standard of english around here, now I'm complaining about the standard of french.

[steves]

True, but Ian did say a 'clip', anyway size info follows.

CD quality WAVs take approx 10MB a minute of track, compressed to near CD quality MP3 get's it down to 1MB a minute and further if you don't mind losing some quality.

MS Audio 4 (WMA/ASF) is better than MP3 at the higher compression ratios (>20:1) that yeild less than CD quality (500Kb/min for stereo FM quality, less for mono of course).

The media player that comes with IE5 will play WMA/ASF files (although it will download a CODEC first time). Previous versions of media player support MP3 so your father-in-law won't need anything special to play them.

Visit the microsoft site to download 'Windows Media Tools' (use search to find) to create WMA/ASF files from WAV.



[This message has been edited by steves (edited 06-11-99).]