Saving Files In .WAV Format

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Village Idiot

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I am ready to back up some files from a demo I am doing.
And I would like to back up individual tracks to CD

My question:

What are the different software/methods to keep files archived to CD in a .wav format?

I currently use Adaptec's Direct CD, but this software has proven to be very lame, sometimes recognizing the disk and sometimes not. I can see the data was burned fine, but Direct CD appears to re-open only CD's when it is in the mood.

Are there other software options or tricks to send .wav file To CD without it automatically converting itself to a .cda file?

VI
 
you could convert the .wav files to mp3 before you burn to save on space......then when you need them again convert them back.
Sure seems like a lot of work now that I typed that out.
 
Village,

Do NOT convert to mp3 for any kind of storage. Your files will be permanently altered. Remember that mp3 is a compressed lossy format that takes away data. Ya don't want that do ya?

I have found WINRAR to be the best compression app around for handling backups. RAR is lossless so you get a tight compression while losing none of your data.

Cheers,

Cuzin B
 
mrbigputts said:
then when you need them again convert them back.
Click to expand...

Don't do that either. :)

Hey, big putts, remind me not to use you as my mastering engineer!
 
Direct CD is for CDRWs and yes it's fairly lame but works. Most likely the failure to read is a mismatch between the media and the reader.

Just use the regular part of Adaptec EZ CD creator (now called Roxio) and BURN A DATA CD!!!

It's that easy! No worries about reading it down the road. Data CDs are much more robust than their audio cousins.

Error correction in the read process....

And don't bother with compression of any kind- lossless or that other lame alternative. That's just an extra step when you want to work with them and CDs are DIRT CHEAP!!!!!
 
Thanks, Guyz...

And I knew not to convert any of the files to MP3.

I have learned something hanging around here.

Good advice here...
I'll go with the good doctor on this one so far.

Thanks!

:D
VI
 
VI, Direct CD lets you drag and drop your files directly (duh) to the CD burner just like it was a hard drive. But you can only read that CD back on a CD drive that is configured with Direct CD. I think there is a service that needs to be running (you would see a little direct CD icon in your system tray). So if that isn't running, or if you try to read the CD on a different machine or even in a different drive on the same machine (your normal CD drive for instance) it won't work.

Pete
 
Definitely go with the Doc.....burn a data Cd.....i usually just put everything for one song in one folder, so there is only 1 file to burn...that folder contains the .sng file and all the .wav and .npk files for that song.....assuming N-Track?, keeping the .sng file and .npk in addition to the .wavs makes it easier to go back and remix if necessary.......
 
Dr and Gidge are 100% right. Forget the CDRWs, just burn to CDR and don't worry about it.
 
Anyone use Monkey's Audio?

I've been using this to compress wav files, it's non-lossy and a Winamp plugin is available so you can play the files without having to decompress first.

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
 
A test

Hmm, just tried compressing a 60MB WAV file using both WinRAR and Monkey's Audio. The results:

Original File: 58,969KB
Monkey's Audio Extra High compression: 41,493KB, less than a minute.
WinRAR Best compression with Multimedia enabled: 52,302. Witout multimedia turned on, 56,946. And it took forever, like 3 minutes on a PIII-1GHz.
 
I remember reading something (Think it was Slack2K) about zipped and compressed wav's. If the disk gets slightly scratched your SOL in recovering the DATA.
 
...it's like that with any data file that you burn - scratches suck.

CDR's are like 39 cents each. I don't bother compressing or converting or anything. Just burn it. If you're worried about scratches ...burn a backup copy and keep it in a different place.
 
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