How do I save music in WAV format



Can you record a track internally from your CD player? Like: can I play a song, record and save it, then upload to my homepage?

sdmike1 (89) on 07/21/99 at 19:20:51 PDT

Odon - It's probably a violation of copyright law to do it, but there are programs that will "strip" a song from a music CD and put it in WAV format. These WAV files are usually gigantic (50MB), but there is software that will turn this into a MP3 file. Sometimes the stripper and compressor are the same program.

friendshipone (0) on 07/21/99 at 19:22:49 PDT

odon, you sure can, with a program like Musicmatch Jukebox 3, a downloadable MP3 player and recorder...but be aware that each song takes about 4-6 Megabytes average.

oden...probably the easiest thing to do would be to download the "crescendo" player that plays .midi files & search for the song in that format. Most of them sound pretty good, & they are much smaller files. But, they are without vocals. ... Also, might try going to www.ntworthy.com, They have a pretty good program for doing what you asked. I've used it for transposing music for my kids to practice if they don't know the rhythm & for composing.(ohiococonut)

cjonrun (13) on Apr-19-00 at 17:37:51 PDT

You need .WAV files to burn audio CD's. There are a few burning programs that will burn MP3's, but even they do .WAV's better. I think it is possible to burn MP3's as data files and then play them with a MP3 player, but that is whole different thing.

There are several good sites relating to burning in general. My favorite is dedicated to RICOH drives, but most of the advice is transferable to other drives. The Unofficial RICOH CD-RW website is at the link: The Unofficial RICOH CD-RW website .

One thing you might consider is changing your burning program. I was using Adaptec's EZ-CD Creator and making about 70% coasters. I changed to Nero Burning ROM and haven't made a coaster since.

Before you start a burn, run scandisk and defrag to consolidate all your free space. Quit everything but explorer and systray using CTRL-ALT-DEL (once) and end them using the End Task button. Then load your burning program and try it.

sdmike1 (195) on Apr-19-00 at 19:06:48 PDT

My CD burning advice is to kill all your programs except explorer, systray, and the burning program (as was stated earlier), AND disable any powersaving or screen saver. The key is NOT interrupting the burning process. I also use the Adaptec software, and I use cheap media ;)

Posted by kenintenn (221) on Apr-19-00 at 18:58:06 PDT

I have an Acer, CD-RW and use adaptec EZ CD Creator, ver4.0 and average 5 or 6 CDs a week, and have not had any problem with the soft ware, Nero is OK, too. The one thing I make sure of, I always use high quality media, seems to work better that way.

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