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Re: [ARSCLIST] Audio History In a Nutshell?
Howard Friedman wrote:
In reply to Mike,
I stand corrected. As to the *.CDA format, that's what I see when I look at the contents of an Audio CD. When I copy it to my hard drive it converts, I suppose you mean is extracted to the MP3 format. But how does the 44KB *.CDA file become a MP3 file of MB size? And does an audio CD actually have the MP3 file on it, or is it compressed, or what?
The only way I know to get an extraction when you copy a .CDA is with a
module (Windows 9x only) which does a relatively crude extraction. If
you have a collection of options for output format, that's what you're
doing. Not recommended on several counts. (It involves lying to the OS,
something Windows NT will not allow.)
The PC program that does the best job extracting audio from CD-DA is the
freeware (technically, cardware) Exact Audio Copy. It can be integrated
with LAME if you want to go more or less directly to MP3.
Mike
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