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post #1 of 16
3/21/09 at 1:58pm
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I have quite a few ripped CDs that I'd like to import back onto my computer. Can I just drag the files in? I see people using stuff like XLD or EAC to rip the CDs with CD Paranoia or whatever, but if I just drag the files in, won't they be uncorrupted/messed up?
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post #2 of 16
3/21/09 at 2:38pm
Drag the files in from where?
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post #3 of 16
3/21/09 at 2:57pm
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I pop the CD in and the files appear there in Finder. They are in .aiff format which I believe is the equivalent of .wav. I can drag them from this to somewhere actually on my hard drive and then convert the .aiff to ALAC. Is using something like EAC (aka XLD) be safer than this process? Personally I don't see where any loss is possible in my sequence of events.
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post #4 of 16
3/21/09 at 3:08pm
You could do it that way.
But red book (audio CD) don't have any error protection, and hence you are better off using a dedicated audio CD ripper. Since they do some checking to prevent read errors.

So I recommend you give Max or XLD a try.
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post #5 of 16
3/21/09 at 3:51pm
standard audio cd is containing recordings in AIFF format??? Maybe your cd (actually data-cd) is just containing files in AIFF sound format.
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post #6 of 16
3/21/09 at 3:59pm
^ No data CD I think. Regular Audio CD's (Red Book) appear in Finder as AIFF files.
Dragging and dropping off the CD don't use any error correction at all, and can cause to errors.

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post #7 of 16
3/21/09 at 4:12pm
That's MAC computer i think? Maybe MAC is showing AudioCD files like AIFF (Windows Explorer is showing just .CDA file format and never shows how big is file, or how long is recording).
I think if it's MAC (MAC is always made specially for dealing with multimedia), then you must have everything in this computer for ripping... If not, just make a small Google search, to find free program for ripping in MAC
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post #8 of 16
3/21/09 at 4:35pm
WAV file (though that format can be different from the Microsoft WAV) can hold compressed audio, the most common WAV format contains uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. The standard audio file format for audio-CDs, for example, is LPCM-encoded. Since LPCM uses an uncompressed, lossless storage method, which keeps all the samples of an audio track.
Audio CDs do not use WAV as their sound format, using instead Red Book audio. The commonality is that both audio CDs and WAV files have the audio data encoded in PCM. WAV is a data file format for a computer to use that can't be understood by CD players directly. To record WAV files to an Audio CD the file headers must be stripped and the remaining PCM data written directly to the disc as individual tracks with zero padding added to match the CD's sector size.
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post #9 of 16
3/21/09 at 4:40pm
Question answered in posts #4 and #6
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post #10 of 16
3/21/09 at 4:56pm
and in and #1
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post #11 of 16
3/21/09 at 4:59pm
Jaska, onko suomenkielista MACia?
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post #12 of 16
3/21/09 at 5:09pm
Oma Mac puhuu englantia, mutta saadaan vaihtaa ohjelmajärjestelmän kieli ihan vapaasti.
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post #13 of 16
3/21/09 at 5:34pm
What's going on here? Why are you speaking Elvish? Am I hallucinating? Am I drunk? AM I? AM I?

In other news, I love how there are lots of vowels everywhere in Finnish. woot!
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post #14 of 16
3/21/09 at 5:35pm
kiitos vastauksesta, mulla ei oo MACia, käytän IKKU-NOITA
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post #15 of 16
3/21/09 at 5:38pm
jonathanjong, it's 'humour appreciation', is'nt it?
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