Topic: CD Wave, now what?

[msgufo]

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.

[Brian Skalinder]

<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. 

[beefstew]

i thought CD Wave is free?

[flipp]

i thought CD Wave is free?

Shareware, see http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,89375.0.html

[Brian Skalinder]

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. 

[msgufo]

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?

[Gordon]

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.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

FYI from my tests cdwav doesn't compress to flac worth a crap compared to frontend.  YMMV.

[Gordon]

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. 

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Really?  Hmm.  Wonder if my copy has issues then.  My differences were drastic.

[flipp]

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.

[OFOTD]

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

[boojum]

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

[flipp]

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.