Ive made several audio compilation CDs, and plan to make more. What can I do to speed up the process of copying the audio CD tracks to WAV files?
Most of the typical CD Rom drives out there can not do digital audio extraction at more than 1x. Attempting to extract audio tracks at more than 1x with these drives usually causes jittering to occur, which ends up giving you an incorrect reproduction of the audio data in your WAV file. Jitter can be blamed for inconsistent extracted file sizes, and popping/crackling noises in the output WAV files. At the current time, the only CDRom drives that I have seen that will do digital audio extraction have been SCSI. I don’t know if any IDE/EIDE CDRom drives will do it, or if software exists to do so via these drives. To get around the Jitter problem, you can do one of two things. • Get the Goldenhawk DAO package. It comes with a program called CDCLIP.EXE that does some sort of Jitter Correction. • Get a high end CDRom drive that does Digital Audio Extraction at its full speed. The Plextor drives (6Plex for sure) do this, and a few others. If you are wanting to use your IDE/EIDE CD-ROM drive
