On 15 Nov 2006 at 13:39, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Johannes Gebauer / 2006/11/15 / 02:34 AM wrote: > > >Audio CDs have a special format, which doesn't use > >files at all. > > Exactly.
Er, what? If I look at an audio CD with Windows Explorer it shows files. They aren't files of a type any audio program can read, but they are presented as files, nonetheless, with the track name and a CDA extension. > And because of this, the file copy of audio CD you make on > your computer is not loss-free. I believe this is completely incorrect. The only exceptions would be if the CD's data were not written cleanly or if the CD drive reading the disk were misaligned or something. > Before modern OSes became capable of > converting audio data object on audio CD to computer-readable file > object, we needed special tool to extract audio from CD. It's digital data. Data is data, a sieries of 0s and 1s. The only difference is what software is used to interpret the data (i.e., Finale files are 0s and 1s, but Microsoft Word doesn't know what to do with them). > When you put your audio CD in your CD player, its error correction > engine alters the sound quality depending on the disk condition and > the player. The problem is that the result isn't consistent. If you > extract the same track 10 times with your computer, and put on a phase > testing, you will see errors between each files. This depends entirely on what software you use to read the CD audio files. > Last time I checked, there is still no way to do bit-copy, and it is a > little surprising, or is this because of the copyright issue? Do you know about EAC, Exact Audio Copy? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
