How to record WAVs bigger than a CD can store?

[lecram1971]

Hello,

Is there any way to create a virtual cd in the PC that can you store more than 700MB (more 1gb) so Sonic Stage think is a CD unit and then transfer it to HI-MD?

The thing is I have music with tracks that I want to record in the HI-MD that is longer than the 80 minutes that one CD can have, but I want them to be gapless, I know I can merge them in one track, but then I lose the track marks they have.

Anyone who made this before? Or is posible to write marks in the unit when is transferd from a PC?

Thanks.

[ksandbergfl]

Hello,

Is there any way to create a virtual cd in the PC that can you store more than 700MB (more 1gb) so Sonic Stage think is a CD unit and then transfer it to HI-MD?

I don't have an answer for you -- but does anyone know if SonicStage recognizes a DVD-Audio disk? If so, then you might be able to create a "virtual" DVD-Audio disc (instead of CD) and have SonicStage process it from there.

[1kyle]

I don't have an answer for you -- but does anyone know if SonicStage recognizes a DVD-Audio disk? If so, then you might be able to create a "virtual" DVD-Audio disc (instead of CD) and have SonicStage process it from there.

Nero (Windows) comes included with "Drive Image" which lets you mount a "virtual CD (or DVD).

What you could do is record your WAV file up to 4.7 GB, convert it to an ISO and then mount it as a virtual CD / DVD.

Alternatively create an ISO of your Audio DVD and then mount it as a virtual disk.

I don't have any audio DVD's so I can't sya what SS will do with them. However provided you can find some program to extract the audio content as WAV files then SS should be able to process these.

You might have to change the sampling rate to 16 (note not the kbs rate but the sampling rate) and ignore the 5.1 / DTS or other Dolby etc encoding which might be on the disk.

Real time recording will always work however from your DVD player you can use the optical out to optical in on the computer or MD recorder.

Cheers

-K

[Qwakrz]

I use nero to make an audio CD and then use the image recorder option in nero to make a disc image. This allows you to overburn the image upto huge sizes.

I then use Daemon tools to mount the image but you should be able to use the built in virtual drive in nero as mentioned above.

[JazzyBananas]

http://www.castudio.org/dvdaudioextractor/

you can get DVD Audio Extractor to grab audio from a DVD, and save it as WAV, MP3, etc. it works well and is really simple to use.

[lecram1971]

Thank you all, I will try and if it works I will tell you.

[lecram1971]

Hello,

I extracted some audio from a DVD with as you told me to do it, the problem is they are longer than a CD can hold, so I have to split in two CDs, and after that I transfer they to HI-MD.

I did this because it´s the only way I found to make them gapless (except when the CD was changed)

There is no way to transfer the WAV files to the HI-MD and make them gapless??

Thanks!!!

[MDX-400]

http://www.castudio.org/dvdaudioextractor/

you can get DVD Audio Extractor to grab audio from a DVD, and save it as WAV, MP3, etc. it works well and is really simple to use.

Wow that's a useful program alright! So you can transcode DD/DTS and MPEG-Audio, etc. to formats like MP3 with that? I wonder, what does it do with multi-channel material when transcoding to a stereo format? Does it transcode only the two front channels or does it mix/combine them into a Pro-Logic/Dolby Surround compatible stereo or something else?

[metal]

I extracted some audio from a DVD with as you told me to do it, the problem is they are longer than a CD can hold, so I have to split in two CDs, and after that I transfer they to HI-MD.

Don't know why you need to split it into 2CDs.

I frequently extract audio from concert DVDs that are more than 2 hours and transfer as WAV to HDD. Then use SS to convert ATRAC to get gapless and transfer to 1GB disk.

I wonder, what does it do with multi-channel material when transcoding to a stereo format? Does it transcode only the two front channels or does it mix/combine them into a Pro-Logic/Dolby Surround compatible stereo or something else?

I believe the program would downmix the five/six channels into two channels stereo or otherwise it would look pretty useless as quite a large no of DVDs contains 5/6 channels audio tracks only.

[lecram1971]

The problem I have with Sonic Stage is when you tranfer two WAV files to the HI-MD they have a gap. This doesn´t happend when you transfer from a CD gapless, that´s why I always record to a CD first and then to Sonic Stage.

As someone said before, and it didn´t work for me then, but I investigate more about, now I am using a Nero Image (an audio image) and a Virtual CD-ROM. The Sonic Stage reconigze it as a CD, but something I must do wrong because it has gap, but the 2 seconds of silence between tracks, so I must didn´t configure it right. I will try again today, if this works this will be great.

But I don´t understand why two Wav files that must be gapless have a gap when they are transfer with Sonic Stage as singles songs?

Thank you all for your help

[lecram1971]

IT WORKS!!!

Create the image with Nero (an audio Image), transfer the Image to a Virtual Drive (I use Alcohol 120) and the Sonic Stage thinks is a big CD, gapless.

Thanks for everybody helps.

P.S. will Simple Burner asumes the same???