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.cda files, convert ?
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I'm trying to burn my first music CD ..using either Nero or Burn 4 free ...and wouldn't you know, the first CD I put in my CDROM drive and copied the files to my HD to be burned to a CDR .. were all .CDA files .. I don't want to convert them to MP3 files,I'd like to convert them to .WAV files so the music can be played on a regular Boise CD player. many thanx |
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Theo..it's me, the other 'invalid'.. just changed my address so we could tell
which 'invalid' it is G anyway, I DLed "Exact Audio Copy" just fine . I sure feel stupid but can I now take my original music CD, transfer the music .cda files to my HD and then run "Exact Audio Copy" and it will copy the transferred music .cda files (change them to .wav files) from my HD to a new CD ? I'm not getting much help from the 'HELP' in Nero or Burn4Free Just reread your note and I'm thinking that "Direct Audio Copy" just might convert the cda files to wavs BEFORE they go to my HD.(and from there I can burn to the new CD) many thanks for your patience ! Theo wrote: wrote in : I'm trying to burn my first music CD ..using either Nero or Burn 4 free ..and wouldn't you know, the first CD I put in my CDROM drive and copied the files to my HD to be burned to a CDR .. were all .CDA files .. I don't want to convert them to MP3 files,I'd like to convert them to .WAV files so the music can be played on a regular Boise CD player. many thanx this is not how you get audio files from a CD audio disk. .cda files are merely pointers to the actual audio streams that windows makes. Windows interprets the disk and makes one cda pointer file for each audio track. If you want to extract the audio use something like "Exact Audio Copy", available via www.downloads.com, or other places. It will convert the raw audio stream into a wav. |
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Theo..it's me, the other 'invalid'.. just changed my address so we could tell which 'invalid' it is G anyway, I DLed "Exact Audio Copy" just fine . I sure feel stupid but can I now take my original music CD, transfer the music .cda files to my HD and then run "Exact Audio Copy" and it will copy the transferred music .cda files (change them to .wav files) from my HD to a new CD ? I'm not getting much help from the 'HELP' in Nero or Burn4Free Just reread your note and I'm thinking that "Direct Audio Copy" just might convert the cda files to wavs BEFORE they go to my HD.(and from there I can burn to the new CD) many thanks for your patience ! Please read about the basics of CD audio in one of the usual references: the CD-R FAQ or the primer at my WWW site. EAC and other such tools will "rip" the audio stream from the CD to one or more files on your hard drive - WAV or a compressed format depending on the program(s) and you choices. There is no .CDA file; as Theo points out, it is a pointer, an artificial device of the operating system. The sound on a CD-DA is not in files, so cannot be "copied" to your hard drive. Again, see one of the references for some basic understanding. Mike -- http://www.mrichter.com/ |
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I DLed "Exact Audio Copy" just fine . I sure feel stupid but can I now take my original music CD, transfer the music .cda files to my HD and then run "Exact Audio Copy" and it will copy the transferred music .cda files (change them to .wav files) from my HD to a new CD ? I'm not getting much help from the 'HELP' in Nero or Burn4Free Yes, what the others said in the above posts ) Nero does not extract audio. Its only function is making CDs. And do not try to drag/drop the the cda files. Use the program to do it. Does EAC have documentation with it yet? If not there should be one at www.exactaudiocopy.de |
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ok ..and I'm reading the basics for burning.. have 2 questions: Where do I install the 'lame.exe' file I DLed to go with EAC ? in the Encoder part ? and how the H*** do I uninstall "MusicMatch" ..it's capturing my WAV files. Already did Norton's uninstaller etc rebooted and the stupid thing is STILL there. Don't need this grief right now. again..thanks |
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Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- ( Reduced to living off the trash? ) ( ... my thanks to Tim ... ) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...mindspring.com (Messages 10, 12 -- 34, 54 -- 69) wrote: ok ..and I'm reading the basics for burning.. have 2 questions: Where do I install the 'lame.exe' file I DLed to go with EAC ? in the Encoder part ? and how the H*** do I uninstall "MusicMatch" ..it's capturing my WAV files. Already did Norton's uninstaller etc rebooted and the stupid thing is STILL there. Don't need this grief right now. again..thanks http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/axatis/...ct.htm#example http://www.ping.be/satcp/tutorials.htm |
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I DID IT .. made my first audio CD ! I never could have done it without your wonderful and knowledgeable help. Got rid of MusicMatch (thank Gawd) .. used EAC to transfer to HD in wav format and Burn4Free to burn to CD .. no problems. I'm now listening to the "Moonlight Sonata" on my NEW CD ! Thanks for putting up with me .. and I did learn ! from Houston ! |
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