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Title: CDA to WAV
Post by: zupanic on March 03, 2015, 03:05:52 PM: I have some old masters (well, MiniDisc to CDA) that are in CDA format which is what an old stand-alone Philips CD burner used. They were digitally transferred from MD to CDA and I'd love to turn them into WAV.
Tried Audacity, Traders Little Helper, and Wavelab 6 with no luck. Is there any software which can change these to WAV format ? My only other option is to transfer them in real time via analog cable to my
portable field recorder.
I have a couple fairly rare moe. and Gov't Mule masters from 2000 to work on and would rather not use an analog cable.
any help appreciated.
Title: Re: CDA to WAV
Post by: jefflester on March 03, 2015, 03:08:32 PM: CDA is normal audio format, rip them with EAC.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Title: Re: CDA to WAV
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on March 03, 2015, 03:32:42 PM: Quote from: zupanic on March 03, 2015, 03:05:52 PM
I have some old masters (well, MiniDisc to CDA) that are in CDA format which is what an old stand-alone Philips CD burner used. They were digitally transferred from MD to CDA and I'd love to turn them into WAV.
Tried Audacity, Traders Little Helper, and Wavelab 6 with no luck. Is there any software which can change these to WAV format ? My only other option is to transfer them in real time via analog cable to my
portable field recorder.
I have a couple fairly rare moe. and Gov't Mule masters from 2000 to work on and would rather not use an analog cable.
any help appreciated.

If you stll have the MDs, I can Transfer them to 16/44 WAV w/o any CD Burning or analog steps... Sony MD > Toslink > HOSA > SPDIF > Tascam HD-P2...

If not, use EAC as recommended above...

Terry
Title: Re: CDA to WAV
Post by: zupanic on March 03, 2015, 04:42:32 PM: thanks guys!
I recently got a new computer and have yet to put EAC on it since I don't really burn CD's much any more.
Will give that a shot.
Title: Re: CDA to WAV
Post by: Gene Poole on March 03, 2015, 11:36:45 PM: You should be able to load them in Audacity. Just load as raw audio at 44100, 2 ch, 16 bit and (I think) big endian.