KVR Audio

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:30 pm

Maybe I've overlooked the obvious, but is there a sampler that reads directly from an audio CD without ripping the track to a hard drive? There used to be a dll file that made CDA files appear as wav files, but that was long ago in a pre-XP world. Any audio editors do this?

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:44 pm

Let me rephrase this question. The cda files on an audio CD are shortcuts to the wav files on the CD. I used to have a dll that would actually process the shortcut so I could see and open the wav while it was still on the CD. Rather than ripping whole songs to get to the wav files, I'd like to open them from the CD and edit and then save to disk what I want. Anyone doing this?

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:05 am

eduardo_b wrote:The cda files on an audio CD are shortcuts to the wav files on the CD.

On your audio CD there are no WAV files, just the raw PCM data. A wav file contains some extra meta-data in headers that is not present on the disk.

The cda files you see in Windows Explorer aren't actual files. They are just an interpretation of the audio tracks on the disk.

eduardo_b wrote:Rather than ripping whole songs to get to the wav files, I'd like to open them from the CD and edit and then save to disk what I want. Anyone doing this?

Fair request. Some audio editors (try a shitload and you'll find it) may be able to open a CD track. That's just ripping and keep it in memory, without saving the intermediate result as a big WAV file.

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:51 pm

C00kie wrote:Some audio editors (try a shitload and you'll find it) may be able to open a CD track. That's just ripping and keep it in memory, without saving the intermediate result as a big WAV file.

I have just about that many, so I guess I'll spend some time away from KVR testing them.

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:02 am

For anyone who wants to open a track from a CD without ripping it to the hard drive first, Sound Forge does it nicely.

timobrien · Post by **timobrien** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:22 am

(uh, SoundForge still rips the track. It's just doing it transparently to you, but it's still ripping the track...)

eduardo_b · Post by **eduardo_b** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:16 pm

timobrien wrote:(uh, SoundForge still rips the track. It's just doing it transparently to you, but it's still ripping the track...)

Yeah, but I don't end up with a lot of wav files on the hard drive that I then have to delete.

Reading wav from CD