Hi all,
I got my DAT onto my WD 500G external via M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 into CD WAV(Audacity didn't work very well for me). Do I need to drop the file into FLAC front end? When I play the file after CD Wave, it opens in Winamp and plays. It then lets me burn to CD in Winamp. I feel like I am shortcutting which I don't want to do. But if all I want to do is store and play them via CD Wav(they also play in CD Wav) what else do I do. Thanx for any help on the way. ???
<1> Spend the $15 on the CD-Wave registration, you'll end up using it a lot and it's well worth the $.
<2> Use CD-Wave to cut the recording into tracks.
<3> Drop the cut up WAVs into FLAC FrontEnd
<4> Create an info (TXT) file with useful information like band, date, city/state, venue, setlist, equipment used, location of gear, etc.
<5> Backup backup backup to optical (CD/DVD) and offsite
Off you go. :)
i thought CD Wave is free?
Quote from: beefstew on August 21, 2007, 12:47:02 AM
i thought CD Wave is free?
Shareware, see http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,89375.0.html
Quote from: flipp on August 21, 2007, 12:57:58 AMShareware, see http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,89375.0.html
Gotta dig a bit in that thread for a bit of detail, so...the short of it is: Yes, it's shareware, and even though the author chose to provide a fully functional, uncrippled version of the software for a 31-day trial, the license requires a $15 registration if used beyond the 31-day trial period.
Thanks Brian!
Yea, I went ahead and bought CD Wav. It's a cool program so it is right. So I figured out splitting the tracks. How do I save them into separate tracks? Are they separate files? What happens when the tracks are put into FLAC? Do I fingerprint, encode and/or decode? Sorry for all the questions, but I feel like I'm getting closer to the final steps and I'm psyched to get these tapes on HDD properly like you all do it. I guess I should ask if there is a tutorial for CD Wave and FLAC frontend?
in cd wave > save as. then you have the option to save as wave files or as flac. I skip the middle man (front end) and save as flac with cd wave. then open frontend to test the files and make a fingerprint.
FYI from my tests cdwav doesn't compress to flac worth a crap compared to frontend. YMMV.
Quote from: tapermark on August 21, 2007, 12:47:07 PM
FYI from my tests cdwav doesn't compress to flac worth a crap compared to frontend. YMMV.
all my test the difference were only a few mb's. not a big deal to me.
Really? Hmm. Wonder if my copy has issues then. My differences were drastic.
Check which versions of the flac executable you are running. IIRC CD Wave uses 1.1.2 and the latest version is 1.2.0 which is much faster and uses a different algorithm which gets better compression. There is a thread around here somewhere about the latest release.
Quote from: flipp on August 21, 2007, 04:10:22 PM
Check which versions of the flac executable you are running. IIRC CD Wave uses 1.1.2 and the latest version is 1.2.0 which is much faster and uses a different algorithm which gets better compression. There is a thread around here somewhere about the latest release.
I believe the latest version is using FLAC 1.1.4 now
http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/whatsnew.html
CD Wave Editor is using 1.1.4. It was released with that level FLAC just before Coalson released 1.2.0. I do not think the differences are significant between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0. Mark, if your version is registered you can D/L the latest and run 1.1.4. I can run a test with the current CDWE against the FLAC front end if you wish.
Cheers
Looks like I need to update CDWave since I'm still running 1.94.6, but then again I may not since I've never used it to create flacs. Thanks for letting me know.