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Being human musician
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
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 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:06 am Post subject: A cool CD Extraction gizmo |
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There's a cool CD-Audio Extraction Windows driver called "CDFS Ripper". I think it's either freeware or shareware.
The nice thing about it is that it lets you open your audio CD tracks as .WAV files without having to launch another program just to read and extract them. Since it treats audio tracks as .WAV files, there's no fussing around with extraction settings and speeds. It's easy to install also.
The down side, is that sometimes other CD(/DVD-RW) programs might modify it's registry settings, but that's really not the fault of CDFS.
Anyhow. That's probably one of the best free/shareware things I've found all year. I thought you guys/gals might like it.
I'm not sure if it runs on Windows XP, but if you're running XP, you probably don't need it because you've already got your hands full with troubleshooting the policy editor all day and night and watching all the pretty colourful icons and animations 
p.s. - This web site is looking good these days. |
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Jason
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Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: Brisbane
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Ummmm.... can you tell us where to find it?
The only one I know of is an old program called Alternate CDFS.VXD for Windows 95/98 which is actually an alternate Windows 9x CD-ROM driver that allows you to access your audio CD tracks as WAV files. Once installed, there will be an array of folders listed for the audio CD in the CD-ROM's drive. All the tracks are listed as WAV files in each of the folders made for each combination of formats (Mono/Stereo, 8Bit/16Bit, 11025Hz/22050Hz/44100Hz). When you access the files from Windows Explorer or a program's open dialog, it automaticly converts your CD's audio data to WAV file data in the correct format.
You can download it here
To install it:
1. Back up your old Windows\System\IOSubSys\cdfs.vxd file so you can restore the current configuration if it doesn't work for your setup
2. Copy the alternate cdfs.vxd from the temporary folder you unzipped it to over the original one
3. Reboot
Personally, I would rather not mess with my CD-Rom drivers. |
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