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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: ama_mmmc on February 21, 2004, 07:08:21 am
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I have a dumb question. I work from on Directory called "My Music" All my music is MP3 VBR. I would like to convert 1 set of files that are in CDA format but when I try to do so I can not see the files in MC. I have imported the files, first checking to see that it will import .cda files, and it is checked, and I get a message that it scanned the 10 files, that 0 new files were found, it failed to import 0 files, and the details say that MC did not find any new files to import. I want to convert them to MP3, but since I can't see them, I can not convert them. I have tried putting them on my firewire drive, and on my local C drive and I still can't get them to be seen within MC. Any Suggestions
Drew
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CDA files are not music files...they are like an index file or link. Proof: Check out the file properties (via explorer) and look at the size...they'll be like 10 bytes or so. The only way to get the music off the CD in a format that MC understands is to rip to wav (always the first format in the conversion chain).
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That would explain the size of the files as well as why I could not get it to convert. I shall try again.
How do I get them to wav files. I seem to remember you could rip your cd's to wav and then overnight do a batch to turn them into whatever file you choose. I tried putting the encoding setting s to wav, but I am still getting the slow copy that I was before?
Thanks
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If you are having trouble ripping, your drive may be set to PIO. Please try a search here for PIO.
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You don't have to rip to wav...pick any format. The rip chain looks like this: CD Audio>wav>(ogg, mp3, etc). It is a totally automated process...unless wav is your destination format.
Slow rip? How slow? You will usually see numbers like 4x which means that a rip will take the inverse of that factor * total song length...so a 8 minute tune will take 1/4 the time or 2 minutes.
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