Recorded Songs Burned To CD: Are They Digital Or Audio On The CD??

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Hey, RAMI, this is stupid!! Let's forget about this shit, OK?? Stupid on both ends. Dumb. Guess I was in a bad mood and maybe you too. Amends?? Rediculous.

I'll be back to being the real me (God help you and us all). Is everything cool? I'm truly sorry. We both said things we shoudln't have said. I'm cool if you are. As far as I'm concerned, it's now all forgotten. You??

Mike
 
Mike Freze said:
Hey, RAMI, this is stupid!! Let's forget about this shit, OK?? Stupid on both ends. Dumb. Guess I was in a bad mood and maybe you too. Amends?? Rediculous.

I'll be back to being the real me (God help you and us all). Is everything cool? I'm truly sorry. We both said things we shoudln't have said. I'm cool if you are. As far as I'm concerned, it's now all forgotten. You??

Mike
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Yeah man, I'm cool. :cool:

Believe or not, I'm probably the only one in this thread who really helped you, no dis-respect to anyone else who tried. The truth is, trying to answer whether a CD is "Digital" or "Audio" is like trying to answer if a house is blue or loud.....or something. :eek:

Greg's "funny" remarks actually had more meaning to them than it may seem. :)
 
In fact, I might just delete this thread altogether. So stupid on both of our parts.

Amends? You have been very helpful in the past. Guess I just acted out of line. Forgive and forget, move on. OK??

Mike
 
So, just to get closure....:)

The question shouldn't be "Is a CD "digital" or "AUDIO?". Everything you hear is AUDIO. The question is whether that "Audio" is "digital" or "ANALOG". That's answerable.
 
Mike Freze said:
In fact, I might just delete this thread altogether. So stupid on both of our parts.

Amends? You have been very helpful in the past. Guess I just acted out of line. Forgive and forget, move on. OK??

Mike
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Nah, don't delete it. Shit happens. There's some useful info in this thread regardless.
 
Yes, you're right on!! The funny remarks just broke up the tension and it made me suddenly think, hey, this is shit!! So as far as I'm concerned, end of story. We're friends again and, yes, you have helped me a lot.

Mike
 
I suppose a group hug is out of the question... (no longer than 3 seconds and 2 pats on the back..) :spank:
 
stevieb said:
So, VHS's video was digital, eh? I never knew that. So, when they discovered that Dolby SoundSurround was encoded on the VHS tape, was it digital, too?
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LOL!!!

VHS is all analog. Each pass across the tape is one scan line on the TV screen. The same vertical helical scan (VHS) technology was use on DATs.
 
Well, this thread ain't over yet....

Just for clarification (and to confuse Mike a little more) the Digital to Analog process usually doesn't take place in the CD burner, as StevieB might have eluded to. Older CD burners has D/A converters, but they are just for the headphone jack on the CD burner. Newer CD burners do not have headphone jacks and do not convert Digtial to Analog. (Well, at least none of my new CD burners have headphone jacks!!)

The D/A conversion takes place in your sound card. If you use the computer's built-in soundcard, then it's done there. If you use an external interface, like an MBox 2, then that's where the digital data on the CD gets converted to Audio.

Glad to see all are friends again. :D
 
Mike Freze said:
I can spell it out for you if you'ld like. Recorded Songs Burned To CD: Are They Digital Or Audio On The CD?? I didn't ask the difference between audio or digital, did I?? Guess you can't tell the difference.
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They are indeed digital and audio on the CD.

Is english not your native language?
 
Chili said:
Just for clarification (and to confuse Mike a little more) the Digital to Analog process usually doesn't take place in the CD burner,
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Just for further clarification....The original question doesn't even contain the word "analog". That's why I don't understand why some people keep answering it that way. The original question was about "digital" and "AUDIO"...not "digital" and "analog".

The only reason this got confusing is because the question asked cannot be answered, and everyone's answering a question that wasn't even asked.
 
Mike Freze said:
I can spell it out for you if you'ld like. Recorded Songs Burned To CD: Are They Digital Or Audio On The CD?? I didn't ask the difference between audio or digital, did I?? Guess you can't tell the difference.
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You just proved his point. The actual answer to that question is both, it's digital audio. The way you asked the question makes it seem like you don't know the difference between audio and analog, or at least don't know what the word 'audio' means. (and are confusing it with the word 'analog')

That seems to be the part that you're (still) missing.
 
RAMI said:
Just for further clarification....The original question doesn't even contain the word "analog". That's why I don't understand why some people keep answering it that way. The original question was about "digital" and "AUDIO"...not "digital" and "analog".

The only reason this got confusing is because the question asked cannot be answered, and everyone's answering a question that wasn't even asked.
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I know the original question. For sure he just confused the two terms, but after a few explanations, he came away with the wrong idea of the D/A process.

Honestly, when I first saw the original post, I didn't even notice that it said Audio instead of Analog. I guess I subconsciously replaced the wrong word with the correct word and read it the way it should have been asked.
 
RAMI said:
Exactly. And you were told repeatedly that it makes no sense to ask the "difference" between "digital" and "audio". There is no "difference. "audio" can be "digital", it can also be "analog". Your question should be the difference between "digital" and "analog". They're BOTH "audio".

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Well .... that opens up a different discussion.

Doesn't digital ONLY become audio after D/A conversion?
If you don't convert it to analog it never becomes audio ..... at least not in the sense of what was recorded.
I suppose you would get a bunch of clicks or something if you ran that into a speaker somehow but if we stipulate that 'audio' in this case is defined as playing back what was recorded ...... then digital isn't actually audio in that sense until it's converted to analog.
Also ..... a speaker, almost by definition, is an analog only device. Even speakers that are designed to take digital signals have an D/A in there somewhere.

I'm not trying to stir up shit ...... I'm asking a legitimate question that I'm curious about.
 
Chili said:
For sure he just confused the two terms, I didn't even notice that it said Audio instead of Analog. I guess I subconsciously replaced the wrong word with the correct word and read it the way it should have been asked.
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I think you're assuming a whole hell of a lot there, Chili. Considering there was another thread where he asked the difference between Digital and "Audio", I find it quite a stretch to assume this is just a typo or "he meant analog instead of audio".
I spent about 2 pages trying to explain the reason it's an impossible question to answer...not once did he come back and say "I meant "analog" not "audio". You guys answered the question assuming it was just a confusion in terms, where it was more of a lack of understanding that there even IS a confusion in terms.


EDIT: Again, just to be clear. Regardless of my communication-challenged way of expressing myself when things get a little heated, I wasn't trying to get on Mike's case just for the sake of it.

All I was trying to point out is that "Digital" vs "Audio" (no matter what the context of the question) isn't a valid question. If ANYONE came back before Chili finally did, and said "I meant "analog" not "audio", or "He meant "analog" not "audio", it would have changed everything.
 
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Lt. Bob said:
Well .... that opens up a different discussion.

Doesn't digital ONLY become audio after D/A conversion?
If you don't convert it to analog it never becomes audio ..... at least not in the sense of what was recorded.
I suppose you would get a bunch of clicks or something if you ran that into a speaker somehow but if we stipulate that 'audio' in this case is defined as playing back what was recorded ...... then digital isn't actually audio in that sense until it's converted to analog.
Also ..... a speaker, almost by definition, is an analog only device. Even speakers that are designed to take digital signals have an D/A in there somewhere.

I'm not trying to stir up shit ...... I'm asking a legitimate question that I'm curious about.
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Ah, now you're getting all Socrates on our ass.:eek: :D

Well, I guess that this "digital" you speak of has to be "audio" in the first place, or you'd have no "digital" to be talking about in the first place. A voice, a guitar, drums, whatever it is that you're refering to as being "digital" was "audio" that got into the computer somehow, no?
 
I ask my girlfriend this often.......If man yells in a forest, is he still always wrong?

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