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04 Oct 02 - 06:51 PM (#797105) Subject: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: Uncle_DaveO First, I am NOT contemplating copyright violation. I have some of my own singing on a couple of CDs produced by a group of people I know, but no longer have the original recordings, nor ever had them in digital format. I want to convert these songs from my computer's CD player to WAV for posting on my own web site, the host of which will not accept MP3s. I have SlowGold, Creative Recorder, and Audacity, but am not skilled in the use of any of them. I think there was a thread that related to this, but I have been unable to find it via search. Can anyone help me, or direct me to where such instructions may be? Dave Oesterreich |
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04 Oct 02 - 07:14 PM (#797115) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: McGrath of Harlow WAV files tend to be enormous. You might try using RealPlayer, which gves a different kind of compressed file, and see if they've any problem with loading those. Here is a page I wrote about this for my own benefit, to remind me the next time I wanted to do it "One way to put your songs on the net"(Working from CDs instead of cassette tapes doesn't really make it any different.) |
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04 Oct 02 - 11:19 PM (#797200) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: Ed. There have been a few threads on this, but I can't find them either! The best/easiset solution that I've found is Total Recorder. A google search for CD ripper will find you lots of possibilities, but I've found some to be a bit temperamental. |
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05 Oct 02 - 12:05 AM (#797220) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: GUEST I've just started unraveling the .WAV format. Minimum sample size is 1 byte (that's not high-fi) and minimum sample rate is 22,050 samples per second. That works out to a file size of 1.3 megabytes per minute. A song of 3 minutes would be about 4 megabytes, which on my 56K modem, takes about 11 minutes to download, and that's for low fidelity. Single channel hi-fidelity would double that, and stereo would double it again. .WAV files can very good, but very long. Sample points come from information theory. N = 2TW, where t is time in seconds, W is the bandwidth (11.025 KHz), and N is the number of sample points (1 byte each for low fidelity). |
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05 Oct 02 - 12:10 AM (#797225) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: hesperis Try encoding in ogg... it's a similar technology to mp3, can be played in winamp with the plugin, and hasn't been so pirated that hosts fear THEY'LL be liable even if it's your own music! Or, you can write to the host and explain that it is your own music, you own the copyright, and you give yourself permission to post your own original music as mp3s on your own site. There's a link to alliancemp3 from my site, you may wish to join, it people who are using mp3 only in legal ways to promote their own music. www.serpent-goddess.com/worlds (Figures I can't remember the site itself, lol. Sleep is good!) |
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05 Oct 02 - 12:27 AM (#797230) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: GUEST,.gargoyle IF it is on a standard CD - you already have WAV - just do a disk-copy and you have a clone of the original.
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05 Oct 02 - 07:59 AM (#797309) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: McGrath of Harlow Or you could always find a different host for the website. There are still plenty who don't worry about the type of file, though they might have problems with anything the size of a WAV file (and they are massive for anyone to download who might want to listen to you too, as treewind pointed out). But do check out RealAudio/RealPlayer. |
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05 Oct 02 - 08:48 AM (#797327) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: Bullfrog Jones ...or you could link from your website to your own page on one that does let you upload mp3s, like iuma.com or soundclick.com. BJ |
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05 Oct 02 - 11:16 AM (#797389) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca One of the main problems ISP's have seems to be the amount of time/money which comes from tying up the server with downloads for music files. It can and if popular enough use up most of their bandwidth, which is measured in Megabytes per hour. Some ISP's have taken to restricting the amount of download size/time for each customer per hour. With the advent of the MP3 and WAV and RA files audio downloads seems to have overtaken the online Porn market. |
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05 Oct 02 - 11:26 AM (#797394) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: treewind All ISPs have limits on website data rates. They may not be widely publicised, but If you have a free web site and visitors create too much traffic you are typically asked to switch to a more commercially set up (and priced) service. Commercial web space providers may provide different grades of service depending on expected traffic. Bandwidth, not storage space, has always been the limiting factor in web space provision. My current new ISP gives me 250Mb. I wonder what they expect it to be used for? Lots of MP3 and OGG files is the simple answer for me! Anahata |
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05 Oct 02 - 01:59 PM (#797489) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: GUEST,Gene Dunno what system you are running/using, but my ACER 16X CD-RW burner has built-in features that allow the CD-RW to extract either WAVe files or MP3s at rates varying from 32k-bits to 320k-bits...from Music Cds...
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05 Oct 02 - 11:06 PM (#797587) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: Amos Roxio's Toast will do file extraction on demand also. A |
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06 Oct 02 - 12:36 AM (#797598) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: GUEST NEWBIE - Look
ASK your internet provider
If YOUR ISP does not have what you want - change - there are 10,000 other starving providers willing to provide space. |
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06 Oct 02 - 07:27 PM (#797935) Subject: RE: Tech: How convert CD music to HD WAV? From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London..England I do think theres a lot of hogwash spoken about how large and difficult wav files are..my unique sound website has dozens of complete sound tracks in wav file gsm 6.10 format...It is qiute adequate to enable people on the net to hear sounds from my unique video and sound archive of poets and acoustic musicians without giving away copyright advantage....ie I love people to listen to stuff from the videos and sound recordings I have made..that was the purpose of making the recordings in the first place...but it leaves me with an infinitely better quality sound recording to sell via CD than can be got from the net...which is just how i like it..Wav is playable on nearly every PC with a sound card (via the sound recorder,or Real or Windows media player) in existence without resorting to any more massive soundplayer downloads that in my experience often seem to like playing tug of war with your PC...The MSN web groups free of charge having phenomenal wav upload capacity..all you need to do is aquire several hotmail addresses/passports and you can add sound til your heart is content.. acoustic musicians and poets sound archive |