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Roger The Shrubber
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 Posted - Thu Feb 01, 2001 12:24 am
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I found a great alternative to ripping programs. Go to http://www.davecentral.com/8966.html
and download the cdfs.vxd file. Place it in your C:\Windows\System\IOSubSys folder and reboot your computer.
Now put an audio CD in the drive, fire up Windows Explorer and have a look at the CD drive. You will notice in addition to the cda files you have some folders. Go into the Stereo/16Bit/44100 folder and you will see wave files. You can drag & drop or copy and paste these wave files to your hard drive and you don't need a ripping program.
But the best part about this is you can also open up an audio file directly in Cool Edit from the CD without having to record it through the analog way.
In Cool Edit, go to file, open and point it towards the CD drive in the folder Stereo,16Bit,44100. Cool Edit will load it into it's temp file and you can edit away. Then save it to your hard drive when you're done.
The only drawback is that it only works for Win 9X systems, not NT or Win2K.
Edited by - Roger The Shrubber on 02/01/2001 12:26:15 AM
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beetle
Location: USA
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Posted - Thu Feb 01, 2001 2:17 am
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Yeah! I've had that file in my PC for a couple of years now and it works great, except that you have to remember to change the attributtes from "read only" to archive or nothing at all afterward.
WARNING: before you install the new file, back up the old one first and then rename the extention to .old. You can keep the copy on your PC somewhere in case the new file won't work on your system. It won't work on all of them.
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TheWavZone
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Posted - Thu Feb 01, 2001 8:19 pm
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Very cool R_t_S...
I'll have to give it a try... :D
B-Lo
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Bobbsy
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted - Mon Feb 05, 2001 5:43 am
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Downloaded this and it seemed to work really well. However, when playing back tracks loaded into CE2K this way I get occasional bursts of "white noise" about a quarter second in duration throughout the duration of the material. It seems a bit strange cause if I zoom in on the noise to have a look in waveform view I can easily find it, but then I zoom out again and play and it's often gone, at least until the next time I load the track..
FYI, I don't have any problems with tracks either ripped in the conventional way or dubbed via the sound card. I wondered if it was errors creeping in since this method doesn't have the checking/error correction that my ripper has. However, the fact that the effect comes and goes even when I load off the hard disc copy has me mystified. Anybody have any ideas?
Cheers,
Bob
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Detlev Dalitz
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Posted - Wed Feb 07, 2001 5:57 pm
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Yes, but ...
First to say, it's a very nice idea to put the ripping functionality at low level right into the cd-driver. The preparation of audiofiles into a foldertree splitted into different "views" to the data is a very good idea. That's intuitive.
But there are some issues. I've discovered slightly different volumes and slightly phase-shifting in comparation to the original file after reading it through the CDFS.VXD cd driver built by cyber7. In most cases that behaviour will be neglectable.
Is the quality comparable to EAC?
But I have to say a warning. I discovered today, that the ripper cd driver put his feet on the brakes, and cd copy software like WinOnCD will not be able further on to read from CD on the fly. There were buffer underrun problems.
I think, the ripper driver does not know when he should decode resp. when he should stream the data transparently.
CD drive speed will slow down to 1x speed.
Because the CDFS.VXD is a system driver, it is not easy to the user to change the cdfs modules "on the fly". Windows restart must be done if you change a driver, am I right?
But, ..., if the ripper CDFS.VXD would be coded as a PLUGIN, that stuff will give us much fun.
DD.20010208.0150
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