09 Aug '16 14:18>1 edit
Originally posted by Great King RatYou still don't quite understand what I am doing. I know all about FLAC and such. I have a recording studio and I compose music and record them using Cakewalk Sonar as the DAW. And a few others like Wavelab.
Oh, I'm sorry, I glanced over your post and thought you were trying to do that "burn-your-own-CD" thing that was totally hip and kewl back in 1998.
Still, get an MP3-player, gramps.
Or a FLAC-player, if you're one of those hipsters who likes to pretend he can hear a difference between .WAV and 320 kbps.
Personally, I hook up my Ipod to my hom ...[text shortened]... n to delicious 192 kbps or 320 kbps. And my ears are still young, because I'm not a gramps, yet.
You think just because I am 70+ I don't know about all this new fangled audio stuff.
I think it safe to say I know a LOT more than you ever will.
My problem, to reiterate, is a long time ago I made my own self produced CD and it plays fine and in fact most of it IS converted to MP3 which I put to dropbox and other cloud bases.
MP3 you get with Sonar and there are free ones you can download.
That is not the issue.
The issue is I must have done something wrong when I first recorded my CD. I still have the original files on my comp, gigabytes in fact, but I would rather work with the CD as it is because the files are all in one place.
But it does not come out as a WAV file at least using windows media player. I just wanted to take each track and put it back in the computer but it looks like I will have to go back to the original files on Sonar on my DAW comp.
I ported most of my recording software to a nice laptop, a Lenovo pro and it records great, and I also use a Tascam DR44 4 track mini recorder which can record MP3 directly or 44.1 CD level or higher yet, 96K 24 bit which is much better than CD quality.
Even though that rate takes a lot more than the 11 megabytes per minute of CD level, flash drives are getting up to terabyte levels these days so storage space is not an issue any more, I can have a terabyte of space in a 4 track recorder the size of an old transistor radio now that costs only 300 bucks, whereas 20 years ago it would have been near impossible to have anything of that kind of quality in such a small platform. Back then you could get cd and 96K recorders that used tape but cost something like $10,000 +.
Anyway the CD does not announce itself as a WAV file even though it plays after some urging, in Win Media. It also plays fine in any CD player.
That is my dilemma. Why can't I read it out as a WAV file yet still play it as a WAV.
Win media player sucks for sure. I hit alt to no effect and I am on work comp now and have the same screen as home. I may have to load up an old version of Sonar on my family machine at home to deal with this issue. I think I can upload the tracks to Sonar and it will recognize them as WAV files. I think.