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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 24 for Windows => Topic started by: jstmst on May 08, 2018, 10:53:20 am

Title: MC 23 cda convert to ape
Post by: jstmst on May 08, 2018, 10:53:20 am

Why I‘ m getting ape when I want cda/wav.

Title: Re: MC 23 cda convert to ape
Post by: JimH on May 08, 2018, 11:00:54 am

Set the encoding to whatever you want.  It's an option.  WAV, not CDA.  FLAC would be better.

Title: Re: MC 23 cda convert to ape
Post by: Awesome Donkey on May 08, 2018, 11:31:09 am

It's also worth pointing out that .cda files aren't actually audio data files. In reality .cda files act more-or-less like shortcuts. You'll likely want to rip discs into a lossless format, e.g. WAV, FLAC, APE, etc.

Since APE is a lossless format, you can simply convert them to WAV if desired. Though the benefit of using APE or FLAC versus (uncompressed) WAV files is the compression used to reduce file space. That and APE/FLAC has much better support for metadata over WAV. Ultimately if the end-goal is to get 1-to-1 perfect copies of the data on CDs, ripping CDs (using secure ripping is recommended) to WAV/FLAC/APE/etc. do accomplish that.