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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: msgufo on August 20, 2007, 10:32:44 PM
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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. ???
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<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. :)
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i thought CD Wave is free?
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i thought CD Wave is free?
Shareware, see http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,89375.0.html
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Shareware, 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.
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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?
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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.
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FYI from my tests cdwav doesn't compress to flac worth a crap compared to frontend. YMMV.
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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.
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Really? Hmm. Wonder if my copy has issues then. My differences were drastic.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.