When I play an audio CD in my CD ROM drive and record a WAV file it sounds fine, but when I “rip” tracks from the CD they skip and have noises… what gives?
OK, there are a couple of different issues here. When you play a CD player with the CDPlayer and record it with a WAV recoding program you are doing an analogue transfer of sound – that is you are playing the CD on your drive and producing an analogue output stream, and then reading that back in and converting it to digital through your soundcard and recording the results. This will not give you as good a quality WAV file as a digital “rip”, which transfers the digital data from the disk via digital audio extraction (DEA). However, if you are satisfied with the results of analogue extraction, there are a number of options open to you which will get around the limitations of Windows Sound Recorder, for example. Download Goldwave from www.goldwave.com for example – it will allow you to record WAV files of any length from your soundcard, and to edit them (well, providing you have enough disk space, of course). Or you could use Musicmatch Jukebox which has a option to record tracks from CD
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