Audio CD's & WinXP

[Neil]

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Exploring an audio CD on my brothers laptop (running XP Home) appears empty,
properties also show zero bytes used (media player plays them ok). I don’t
use XP and didn’t know if this is normal or if there is a problem. He would
like to be able to see the number of tracks and space used as in Win98. Any
help appreciated.

 

[Tom]

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"Neil" <n_hinton@FISHonetel.com> wrote in message
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> Exploring an audio CD on my brothers laptop (running XP Home) appears
> empty,
> properties also show zero bytes used (media player plays them ok). I don't
> use XP and didn't know if this is normal or if there is a problem. He
> would
> like to be able to see the number of tracks and space used as in Win98.
> Any
> help appreciated.
>
>

Audio CDs don't report (I don't remember this ever being the case in 98
either) the size of the disk, since only the time total available on a blank
CDR to burn to Audio format is what matters. If he wants to know the true
size of those files, he should rip them to a folder using the .wav format,
which is the best no loss ratio when recording music to CDs. The bitrate of
wavs are 1411 kbits/sec @ 44000 Hz 16bit (typical settings).

So, a CD that has 60mins of music, converted over to Wav into a folder,
would translate into a total folder size of 677280000 bytes (677.28 megs).

If he wants to calculate the actual size using the total time (use seconds)
and multiply that by 11,228 (1411 x 8bits), and the total will be in bytes.

 

[Neil]

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"Tom" <noway@nothere.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Neil" <n_hinton@FISHonetel.com> wrote in message
> news:4234c90c@212.67.96.135...
> > Exploring an audio CD on my brothers laptop (running XP Home) appears
> > empty,
> > properties also show zero bytes used (media player plays them ok). I
don't
> > use XP and didn't know if this is normal or if there is a problem. He
> > would
> > like to be able to see the number of tracks and space used as in Win98.
> > Any
> > help appreciated.
> >
> >
>
> Audio CDs don't report (I don't remember this ever being the case in 98
> either) the size of the disk, since only the time total available on a
blank
> CDR to burn to Audio format is what matters. If he wants to know the true
> size of those files, he should rip them to a folder using the .wav format,
> which is the best no loss ratio when recording music to CDs. The bitrate
of
> wavs are 1411 kbits/sec @ 44000 Hz 16bit (typical settings).
>
> So, a CD that has 60mins of music, converted over to Wav into a folder,
> would translate into a total folder size of 677280000 bytes (677.28 megs).
>
> If he wants to calculate the actual size using the total time (use
seconds)
> and multiply that by 11,228 (1411 x 8bits), and the total will be in
bytes.
>
Thanks Tom,
Win98 explorer showed tracks as Track01.cda etc. and drive properties showed
space used in bytes and MB's, again thanks for your help.
Neil