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Posted by Arny Krueger on 04/24/07 18:25
"Stuart Miller" <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
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>> "Steven Sullivan" wrote ...
>>> Stuart Miller wrote:
>>>> "Doc" wrote ...
>>>> "Stuart" wrote:
>>>
>>>>> If you use Nero you can select MUSIC and then either
>>>>> MP3 or WMA or Nero
>>>>> Digital Audio disc and then just add your files.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> What kind of file format do they need to be in for
>>>>> the Nero Digital Audio disc? And how do you convert
>>>>> the .wav tracks to that format?
>>>
>>>> The process we call 'ripping' is simply converting the
>>>> music cd native format to mp3.
>>>
>>> That's not what ripping is. Ripping is simply the name
>>> for grabbing digital audio data off a
>>> CD, and saving it, usually as wav (a lossless format).
>>> If you 'rip to mp3' from a CD, it
>>> usually involves an intermediate .wav step.
>>
>> Indeed. In fact, the "cd native format" is effectively
>> WAV. The audio data is exactly the same. The only
>> difference is that the CD "files" don't have headers (since they
>> don't need them, as the format: 16 bits x 44.1K samples
>> is pre-defined.)
>>
> I'm open to being corrected on this one, as I am just
> going with what I have seen to be general usage of the
> term, and it really does not matter what we call it.
>
> However, I have 'encoded' to mp3 a few thousand tracks,
> using several different programs. None of them have
> actually written a .wav file in the process.
There might have been a .wav file that was written to a temporary file, or
the data may have been converted from the format on the CD (essentially .wav
format) to MP3 on-the-fly, a memory buffer at a time.
> Of course, none of this affects the concerns of the
> original post.
Agreed. It was just like a point of order.
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