d.eggerickx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> The reason is that I note that a piece of music,
> extracted from a CD, say twice, with the exact same size
> for the two resulting WAV files, give two MP3 files with
> different sizes (with a difference between one and three Ko).

Reading CDDA is a nondeterministic process.  Your .wav files were
not the same (even though they were the same size).

> Finally, the software used to make the extraction has also
> some influence : I normally use the GoldWave software
> to do the extractions, but for test, I do it sometimes with
> the Plextools utilities which always give a WAV output
> greater than with the Goldwave, and, incomprenhensible
> but true, sometimes greater than the real size of the
> piece of music !

Try Exact Audio Copy (EAC) if you're running Windows.  For Linux, use
cdparanoia (or a front-end that uses cdparanoia).

EAC is at <http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac.html>.

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