Kyle Wrote: > I don't use Nero. Is that a paid program? I usually just use the > Windows Media Player. EAC looks like it will decompress files. Will > that work to convert to wav? I think EAC will only burn to DVR. Is > that correct?
Nero is a paid program, although a (possibly somewhat crippled) version comes bundled with many CD/DVD writers. I've never used WMP myself, but I imagine that once you have decompressed the FLACs to WAVs, you should have no trouble creating an audio CD from those files. Although EAC will decompress files, it doesn't look like it will do so for FLACs. How did you create the FLACs? One common way to create them is to use the FLAC Frontend, which is installed automatically when you download and install "FLAC 1.1.2 for Windows with installer", available here: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html. If you don't have that already, get it, as it will make decompressing your FLACs really easy: - Start FLAC Frontend - Drag and drop your FLAC files to it so that they appear in the "Files" list (or use the "Add Files" button/dialog) - Check or uncheck (depending on whether you want to keep the original FLAC files) the "Delete input files" checkbox - Click the "Decode" button. This will create WAV files that you can then burn using WMP or any other CD writing software. Be aware that depending on how the original CD was ripped and your CD writing settings (particularly the length of gaps inserted between tracks), you may not (indeed you probably will not) get exactly the same CD burned as was ripped. With incorrect CD writing settings, this is particularly noticeable for CDs with zero gap between tracks where one track leads directly into another, as with many classical CDs and even popular music albums like _Abbey Road_ and _The Dark Side Of The Moon_. If you used EAC with default settings for ripping, most likely the gaps (if any) were appended to the the end of the previous track. In that case, you're best off setting the the writing program to write with no gaps (0 second gaps). If the CD was gapless in the first place, this will retain that feature. If the CD had gaps, those gaps were appended to the end of each track anyway; adding more gaps will make the CD more, umm, gappy. :) Assuming you don't have the original CD at hand now, this is as close as you're going to get without having created a CUE sheet when you ripped the CD. -- eq72521 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eq72521's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19133 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
