Posted by Telstar on 04/28/07 05:53

"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.)
>

..WAV files are quite different: There are no error correction elements.

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