Any music expert out there?

[Tyler from Alaska]

This question is not related to VB but see if you can help.

Can someone explain to me how to copy music from a CD to a hard drive. Do I have to convert it to MP3 or Wav? Can I copy it straight to a hard drive as CDA format?

I have a program that burns MP3 onto a CD and it automatically converts it to CDA. For some reason, it doesn't work on a regular CD player using CD-RW.

What is copy as:

Single Track Close(TAO)
Single Track Open(TAO)
Data Disc Close(DAO)
Data Disc Open(DAO)

[REM]

I have seen examples in VB of copying entire tracks from audio CD's into WAV files on the users HD using API, but I don;t think it is possible to copy files off a music CD that are in CDA format.

To convert to MP3 from WAV in VB, you would probably have to download an OCX that did the job. If you are programming in C++, you can get some source for encoding MP3's from Planet Source code... Just ideas...

Laterz

REM

[Tyler from Alaska]

Cool Rem!

I am only looking for a program to convert CDA to MP3. Do you have any suggestion. I am not looking for anything related to VB. Sorry for the misunderstanding. So, CDA cannot be copied directly to the hard drive? I have to convert it to MP3? Thanks...

[REM]

I don't think it is possible to copy CDA format files from an Audio CD onto a users HD, they just can't be copied( I don't think so anyway). They would first have to be converted into WAV format.

To get the music from CD to HD (in MP3 format) I would do the following:

1. Get some code to copy all tracks off a CD into WAV's on my HD.

2. Encode the WAV's using an MP3 encoder.

Voila! Music on my HD in compressed MP3 format

Laterz

REM

[delker]

If you want a great cd ripping program, try cdex: http://surf.to/cdex

It will convert CD audio to either Wav or Mp3, or mp3 to wav. It has other nice features, and the price is great (free!) Source code is avaliable too (in C++)

[Tyler from Alaska]

Thanks Rem and Delker.

Delker, this is exactly what I was looking for. Too bad they don't have the source code in VB.



I found this site too. I want to learn how to convert CDA to MP3. Hopefully, this tool will show me. Thanks...

http://www.vbcode.com/asp/showzip.as...zip&theID=1558


If anyone knows how to convert CDA straight into MP3, please list the source code.

[Tyler from Alaska]

By the way, can Winamp record to CD or to Hard Disk? I heard from someone it can but I can't find the record button.

[Tyler from Alaska]

Thanks guys, but the question here is - does anyone have the code to rip the CDA into MP3?


Also, when you burn an Mp3, does this get decoded back to a Wav and the Wav gets burn to the CD?

[parksie]

to rip the cda, rip to wav, then convert to mp3.
some programs do both...

when burning an mp3, your program will usually go:

mp3 -> wav -> cda -> burn to CD

or, if they're good:

mp3 -> cda -> burn to CD

it MUST be converted first because CD players don't understand mp3, only the Red Book CD-Audio format.

[Tyler from Alaska]

Thanks Parksie, that was the clarification I needed. Now I am going to search for codes to convert CD to WAV. I will take your previous advice about the IDE/SCSI.

Bottom of the line, inorder to burn MP3 back to a CD. It must be decoded to WAV. It is actually the WAV that is getting converted to CDA.

Cool Deal!

[parksie]

try a program called AudioGrabber - it does the job efficiently and well.

[Zero]

Easy. Use a tape...