Dear Walter Knapp,
Thank you very much again. I further request you some information
on optical disks. How do you write them? Are they the same as
DVD.
Pratap Singh
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 Walter Knapp wrote :
>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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