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bedfordbilly
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 Posted - Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:50 pm
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Help please-
A friend recorded a raw master cd of a local choir. I have been asked to edit out silence at beginning and end of tracks with my cool edit 2000. When I rip them to hard drive using Windows Media Player, then try to open up in CE2K, .wma is not listed as a valid file type. If I try to open as a pcm file I hear nothing but white noise. If I rip them with Creative (I have a SoundBlaster sound card) they rip to hard drive as an mp3 file, but when I open them with CE2K, the first few seconds are chopped off the file. Can somebody help with either method, please?
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SteveG
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted - Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:59 pm
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If you have the raw audio as a CD, then to rip it properly, you need to do a digital extraction to an uncompressed wav file. With CEP, the best tool for doing this is ExactAudioCopy, which is free. Then you will be able to open the file in CE2000, edit it, and save it without sacrificing any quality, which you most certainly will if you use MP3 as a transfer format!
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Graeme
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Posted - Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:02 pm
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For starters, you don't want to have anything to do with MP3 for this job - there's no point in ruining the quality before you even begin the job required!
Most people here would say your best bet would be to download a copy of Exact Audio Copy - www.exactaudiocopy.de - and use that to rip the data from the CD.
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William Rose
Location: USA
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Posted - Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:44 pm
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I just wanted to include WMA in the bashing. It too, of course, is lossy. And proprietary.
Ummm, other than that, I've got nothing else to add.
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VoodooRadio
Location: USA
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Posted - Mon Jun 16, 2003 5:34 pm
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Harddrive prices are so cheap these days that buying more space is a "hands down" better alternative than "butching" your audio files. People still claim to use the format for things like e-mailing files, and the irony is....... after running it through a lossy compression format, it's hardly worth sending to anyone to listen to! :S
DEATH to all lossy compression formats!!! 
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bedfordbilly
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Posted - Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:47 pm
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Thanks everybody, Exact Audio Copy was just the thing I needed. Worked great, thanks again!
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