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How is the volume controlled when “ripping” from a CD?

April 26, 2017CD controlled ripping volume

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How is the volume controlled when “ripping” from a CD?

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If you’re using Digital Audio Extraction (which is what is usually meant by “ripping”), then I don’t believe anything “controls the volume” – you are simply taking the digital PCM data from the audio CD and transferring it to digital PCM data in a WAV file on your PC (well, you may also be doing MP3 encoding, but that’s actually a second step). The “volume” is simply a direct transfer of the sample amplitude from the CD…

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If you’re using Digital Audio Extraction (which is what is usually meant by “ripping”), then I don’t believe anything “controls the volume”. You are simply taking the digital PCM data from the audio CD and transferring it to digital PCM data in a WAV file on your PC (well, you may also be doing MP3 encoding, but that’s actually a second step). The “volume” is simply a direct transfer of the sample amplitude from the CD.