Okay, thanks for explaining. I take it these are music CDs you're talking about? Well, if a music CD is in mono-- the kind of example I'm thinking of is something like a pre-stereo recording of classical music that they don't want to mess with and distort, or an early rock and roll or pop record that also has been put on CD in its original mono form, then what does the copy process have to do in order to burn a new, playable CD from them? I'm talking at the level of the sound and channels, here, nothing more technical at your level. What I mean is, does the burn program have to do what used to be called a simulated stereo recording of the mono source, and artificially separate out the sound into a left and right channel, even if it sounds a little crude? Is that what you're describing? Or is it something more subtle, so that the result is still in mono as it's supposed to be, but it's reproduced properly on the burned Cd? Do you see what I'm asking? If I have the wrong sort of example in mind, please explain.
Thanks, Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Making CD suggestion Yardbird, Maybe this is more like 1 and a half cents worth, but here goes. I read a post above that assures me that Nero will reincode from mono into stereo. The only reason I say that is less than the usual two cents worth is that I happen to use Nero 6 Ultra Edition, but haven't had the need lately to make any audio cds that require the reincoding necessary, since the main person I made such cds for now has a player that will play mp3s. However, I used to use CDRWin, and that was my main gripe with that program. It would not reincode such mono files, making it necessary to use CDEX to reincode into stereo in order to turn them into playable tracks. The required standard for playing audio files on commercial players is to use the 44100khz stereo attribute, or such files simply will not play, and nono attribute will not do unless they have been reincoded by your burning program, or they are done via another program like CDEX. At 05:50 PM 6/25/2005, you wrote: >1. The other burn programs also use this method of creating am image to >work from, unless you set them deliberately to record "on the fly" without >doing so. >2. I'm pretty sure that it's very simple: You burn stereo music tracks to >a CD, they remain stereo. You burn mono tracks, they remain mono, and the >same material goes into each channel. I don't think there's any >alternative. > >And of course Nero or another similar program can't create a stereo CD out >of monaural material, nor do I think those programs can combine channels to >make monaural recordings from stereo tracks. > >I'm certain, of course, and the people at PC-Audio list are bound to know >these things, there are more sophisticated burning and recording programs >that can probably produce simulated stereo from mono sources, and make a >monaural recording out of a stereo one. But that's at the level of >sophisticated recording technology, not the consumer level I think Nero, >Easy CD/DVD creator, and the like function at. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Andrea Sherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:28 PM >Subject: Re: Making CD suggestion > > >Can't answer that one. Don't use either of those products. >I guess the only way to find out how closely a cd copy could match the >original would be to use Nero to make an .mrg image of the original audio >cd >and then play that and check. Nero is the only program which will make an >image of an audio cd that I know of. UltraIso will image an audio cd but in >Nero's proprietory .nrg format only. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steve Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:21 AM >Subject: Re: Making CD suggestion > > > >I wonder when I make an exact copy of a cd using sonic or windows media > >player if they are stereo files like the original cds. > > > > > > > > web site > > www.rellek.com/stevegomes > > phone 720-747-4990 > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andrea Sherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 4:14 PM > > Subject: Re: Making CD suggestion > > > > > >> If you are using Nero 6 the program will automatically convert to the > >> appropriate format. In other words just at the files in their current > >> format to a new audio cd compilation and then burn that compilation to > >> cd. Nero itself will convert to stereo. You must realise that Nero > >> can't > >> make mono in to stereo ie. you won't hear stereo sound. However Nero > >> will > >> reformat so that to a cd player the tracks will appear as cd quality > >> stereo-if that all makes any sense. > >> BTW I have noticed that when this process takes place Nero appears to > >> be > >> running very slowly ie. when the tracks are being burned to an audio > >> cd. > >> I suspect that this is due to the automatic reformatting process and > >> not > >> to any inherent Nero fault. > >> If you want to do a reverse check of your cd when you have made our > >> audio > >> cd from the mono sources just use Nero or some other ripping program to > >> convert back to say .mp3 format and check the format. You will see that > >> they are indeed 44100 16-bit stereo files. > >> Cheers > >> Andrea > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "PC audio discussion list. 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