pratap singh wrote:
> Dear Fellow Nature Recordists,
>
> I need your suggestion regarding archiving of sound files for
> later retrieval for sound analysis etc. My recordings are
> basically mono.So I do not know whether there is any point in
> archiving sounfiles as stereo file. Secondly, is there any other
> format than audi CD for CD burning for archiving purposes e.g. Wav
> format? I find it difficult to get Wav files back from audi CD
> tracks.
Set your CD burning software to burn a CD-R in ISO 9660 format. Then
just burn the .wav files, that format will run like a regular computer
disk, and is cross platform as well in case you need that, and will be
storing the files. It will mean you can get twice as much time per CD as
audio CD, audio CD is stereo only, so even if fed mono, the burning
software makes it two channel. The only down side is that regular audio
CD players can't use ISO 9660, you would have to read it in a computer.
I keep my original files (in aiff format as I use macs) on both standard
optical disks and CD-R in computer format. And I burn a copy in audio CD
as well for convenient listening. The optical disks I use are the most
durable, and I consider them more my archive than the others. The others
are insurance.
I have no problem getting audio CD tracks back in my editing software on
my macs. It all will read the tracks directly back to aiff, and if they
were mono originally I can set it to just read it back in mono. There
should be some easy way to do this in windows as well. Though with
windows there will be a data transformation each way, unlike macs (or
unix) and the aiff format, .wav and windows uses a reverse bit order
from audio CD's. Done properly there is no reason the transformation
would loose data.
Walt
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