Audio Catalyst in Win 2K

[jbob]

Anybody get this to work? It will install, and go through the motions, but when I play the mp3, I get nothing.

[3beanlimit]

could be that what your cdrom can't extract. Have you tried any other rippers? Just a guess.

Still, I would use EAC with Lame for making mp3's. Better sound and probably a better rip.:d

[3beanlimit]

Ooops.

Sorry, jbob. I dun forgot that your using 2000. Try installing an ASPI layer with this file:
Click here for the aspi layer zip (http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/aspi.zip)

[jbob]

I should still beable to rip analog, shouldn't I?

[3beanlimit]

You don't really rip analog. You record it as a wav.
AudioCatalyst has a feature you can use if your cdrom dosn't support digital extraction.
Under Settings/General/look for the analog tab and check it. This will use your soundcard dacs to convert to wav to your harddrive.

Before I did that though, I'd simply try to see if the ripper part is working. Try ripping a song from a cd to your harddrive without converting it to wav. Make sure you know where the wav file is being stored. After your done, use Explorer and see if the file is really there. If so.....try listening to it with winamp or any wav player.

Does it sound ok? If so, this is the file you'll be converting to mp3. If not, then you either have something set wrong with AudioCat or your drive dosn't support digital extraction. If the latter is the case, simply use the Analog part I explained above.

If your interested in using Exact Audio Copy and LAME for encoding mp3's post back and I'll give you a link or two. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[jbob]

Cool. The ASPI drivers did just fine, thanks.