Subject:Recording from CD to Soundforge

Posted by: sparker366

Date:10/21/2000 10:00:00 AM

The program is great and will do what I need too so I can
create a soundtrack for my DV movies. What I need to be
able to do is get the music off of the cd and into the
computer. Is the below steps correct or am I missing
something.

I understand that you have to launch a player and then play
the cd then record it with SF. What I was looking for was a
way to start the recording at the beginning of the cd
instead of the lag that occurs from pressing play on the
player then the record button on SF. Is there anyway to
have SF start recording at the same time that they play
button is pressed on the player.

I'm hoping that I'm not missing anything with the program
features as I looked in the help file and didn't find much.
Saw some posts on the forum about it and that's where I got most
of my information from.

Thanks

Seth Parker

Subject:Re: Recording from CD to Soundforge

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:10/21/2000 2:15:00 PM

Well, I think the easy solution to your problem would be to start
recording on sound forge and then hit play on the CD player, instead
of the other way around. Another thing I would look into would be to
look into other software that actually "Rips" the audio from the CD
(ie digitally extracts it)and converts it to a wave file. This is
how I actually take audio off of a CD, because it does a digital
extraction, so there is no noise added by your sound card and you
don't go through a generation loss. Most Cdr software allows you
to "Rip" the tracks to .Wav files. I use "Cdrwin" to do this for me,
you might want to look into "Audio Catylist" also, I think there
might even be some shareware software that will do this too. CD
Architect use to do this also, but of course SF stopped making that.
Once you do this, you will be able to load audio into your PC at up
to 10 times real speed, so loading in a 5 Minute song will only take
you 30 seconds. This depends on how fast your CDrom is.

P.S. You think Sound Forge would just allow you to do a drag and
drop from an audio CD and do the process of converting it to a wave
file for you. I guess CD audio just hasn't been around long enough
for Sonic Foundry to implicate this feature and there too busy
spending time on more popular file formats like .MP3. There is in
the Open menu to select the .RAW format and it recognizes audio
tracks, but this method has not worked for me yet. I also heard
there's a way to set up windows to look at CD audio tracks as wave
files, but I forgot how this is done.

Hope this helps,
Brian Franz

Seth Parker wrote:
>>The program is great and will do what I need too so I can
>>create a soundtrack for my DV movies. What I need to be
>>able to do is get the music off of the cd and into the
>>computer. Is the below steps correct or am I missing
>>something.
>>
>>I understand that you have to launch a player and then play
>>the cd then record it with SF. What I was looking for was a
>>way to start the recording at the beginning of the cd
>>instead of the lag that occurs from pressing play on the
>>player then the record button on SF. Is there anyway to
>>have SF start recording at the same time that they play
>>button is pressed on the player.
>>
>>I'm hoping that I'm not missing anything with the program
>>features as I looked in the help file and didn't find much.
>>Saw some posts on the forum about it and that's where I got most
>>of my information from.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Seth Parker

Subject:Re: Recording from CD to Soundforge

Reply by: sparker366

Date:10/21/2000 9:35:00 PM

Well thanks for the info. Never thought of starting the recording
first then playing the cd. Forgot that I was using a sound editor and
could edit out the dead space in the beginning of the recording. I'll
look into the ripping software and see what I can find that won't
break the bank. I've spent a bunch of cash lately on software to do
various projects and the funds are low. Again thanks and if I play
with the raw thing and get it to work I'll let you know and also if I
find out about a way to set up windows to look at CD audio tracks as
wave files

Brian Franz wrote:
>>Well, I think the easy solution to your problem would be to start
>>recording on sound forge and then hit play on the CD player,
instead
>>of the other way around. Another thing I would look into would be
to
>>look into other software that actually "Rips" the audio from the CD
>>(ie digitally extracts it)and converts it to a wave file. This is
>>how I actually take audio off of a CD, because it does a digital
>>extraction, so there is no noise added by your sound card and you
>>don't go through a generation loss. Most Cdr software allows you
>>to "Rip" the tracks to .Wav files. I use "Cdrwin" to do this for
me,
>>you might want to look into "Audio Catylist" also, I think there
>>might even be some shareware software that will do this too. CD
>>Architect use to do this also, but of course SF stopped making
that.
>>Once you do this, you will be able to load audio into your PC at up
>>to 10 times real speed, so loading in a 5 Minute song will only
take
>>you 30 seconds. This depends on how fast your CDrom is.
>>
>>P.S. You think Sound Forge would just allow you to do a drag and
>>drop from an audio CD and do the process of converting it to a wave
>>file for you. I guess CD audio just hasn't been around long enough
>>for Sonic Foundry to implicate this feature and there too busy
>>spending time on more popular file formats like .MP3. There is in
>>the Open menu to select the .RAW format and it recognizes audio
>>tracks, but this method has not worked for me yet. I also heard
>>there's a way to set up windows to look at CD audio tracks as wave
files, but I forgot how this is done.
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>Brian Franz
>>
>>Seth Parker wrote:
>>>>The program is great and will do what I need too so I can
>>>>create a soundtrack for my DV movies. What I need to be
>>>>able to do is get the music off of the cd and into the
>>>>computer. Is the below steps correct or am I missing
>>>>something.
>>>>
>>>>I understand that you have to launch a player and then play
>>>>the cd then record it with SF. What I was looking for was a
>>>>way to start the recording at the beginning of the cd
>>>>instead of the lag that occurs from pressing play on the
>>>>player then the record button on SF. Is there anyway to
>>>>have SF start recording at the same time that they play
>>>>button is pressed on the player.
>>>>
>>>>I'm hoping that I'm not missing anything with the program
>>>>features as I looked in the help file and didn't find much.
>>>>Saw some posts on the forum about it and that's where I got most
>>>>of my information from.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Seth Parker