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Subject:CDA to WAV files - RELAIBLE?
Posted by: HenryM
Date:8/10/1999 2:50:00 PM

I have used an Adaptec product to do this, but am
dissatisfied with the results. Many times the ripped file
had pops and gliches where the CDA file was clean.

Q: Does CD Architect support CDA to WAV conversion, and is
it relaible?

I am looking for a professional full-featured product to do
this - as I regularly master and archive to CD, and later
need to remaster. I recently had to remaster 19 CDs to 32
CDs for the sake of the Marketing Dept. (Why they couldn't
have told me before I deleted the original files I don't
know but...)

Any suggestions are appreciated.


Subject:Re: CDA to WAV files - RELAIBLE?
Reply by: Yuri
Date:8/13/1999 1:25:00 AM

Mark! Just try
http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0165/eac.html

It's the best!

Features of EAC
Usage of the Windows 95 and Windows NT ASPI Interface, so both SCSI
and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported
Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction)
Secure, fast and burst extraction method selectable. Fast extraction
should get the same speed as other grabbers, but is probably not
exact anymore. Burst mode just grabs the audio data without any
synchronization.
Read error and complete lost of sync detection and correction in
secure modes, as far as possible
Output of time positions of all non exact corrections and listen to
these positions
Copy of ranges of music data, not only tracks
Automatic Speed reduction on errors and fallback afterwards
Normalization of extracted audio
Usage of the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for
direct compression e.g. to MP3 waves
Support for the BladeEnc DLL that is usable like an ACM Codec for
online MP3 compression
Support of external MP3, VQF, RA and AAC encoders for automatic
compression after extraction
Batch compression and decompression of/to WAV files
Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression
Detection of pre-track gaps
Detection of silence in pre-track gaps
Automatic creation of CUE sheets for CDRWin, including all gaps,
indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC
CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges
Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an
accurate stream and/or does caching
Sample Offsets for drives with no accurate streams, including the
option of filling up missing samples with silence
Option for synchronizing tracks for non-accurate stream drives
Filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini
support and more features like ID3 tagging
Lyric database support from www.lyrics.ch
Browse and edit local database
Certified Escient ® CDDB(TM) Compatible
Local CDDB support
Record and Loop Record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc.
Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag
Catalog extraction function
Multisession (CD-Extra) support
CD-Text support
ID3 Tag editor with drag and drop possibility from track listing and
database
Glitch removal after extraction
Small WAV editor with functions for delete, trim, normalize, pad,
glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of ranges, noise
reduction, fade in/out, undo and more
Program is Cardware, so feel free to copy


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