Anyone interested in DVD-Audio?
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Yesterday evening, I re-ripped some of my CDs because the original rips by Windows Media Player were unplayable.
While doing this, I studied the standards of DVD-Audio (DVD-A). If I use the same settings for CD, i.e. 2.0 channel, 16 bits/sample and 44.1 kHz sampling rate, then one DVD-A disc would hold sound tracks from 6 or 7 CDs, so I can combine Beethoven's nine symphonies into one DVD-A, or Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung into three.
There is a free (as in freedom) DVD-A authoring software named DVD audio Tools. Anyone compiled and used this?
"Anyone compiled and used this?"
There are probably people all over the world that have used it. Somehow I doubt that's your *real* question though.
Why rip them from one physical medium and put them onto another? If your goal is archival then ripping them into some lossless form, such as FLAC, and keeping the files backed up in various ways should be enough right? Then you have them and don't need to worry about physical media dying or becoming unpopular, etc. (oh suddenly 8-track isn't popular anymore...)
And if you want to play it on something that doesn't support FLAC you can encode them into whatever lossy format and whatever and do that. But you'll always have your master copies that you've ripped into the lossless FLAC format.
Ta Da.
Thanks for reply. I am curious about DVD-A, and have some high-quality rewritable DVDs for experimental purposes.
Currently, I simply rip the CDs in lossless （uncompressed） WAV format and store them on many hard drives. My only concern (about this approach) is that WAV (developed by Microsoft and IBM) is not listed as a free/open format. If there is any free/open container formats for uncompressed audio, all the better. Whenever I need another format, lossy of lossless, I can convert the uncompressed audio files to those formats.
"If there is any free/open container formats for uncompressed audio, all the better."
I mentioned FLAC earlier which is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC
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FLAC is preferable to WAV since file sizes are smaller (but you can still reconstruct the original WAV file as it is lossless) and it supports metadata such as embedded album art.
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