Play wav files from serial input
Bill Freeman
f at ke1g.mv.com
Wed Jan 12 16:13:00 EST 2005
Jeff Kinz writes:
...
> Any PII from 200-600 MHz will rip a CD at about 1:1 music time to rip
> time ratio. If you have a large (25+ years collection) it will take
> 'forever' to convert it.
>
> On the other hand, any recent vintage machine w/a 1GHz or better
> will rip a 1 hour cd in approx 15 minutes. :-) Faster is faster
> obviously.
Oh, yee holder of recent music formats. Ripping a CD is
child's play. An all digital operation, it doesn't even require a
sound card. My LPs, 45s, and 78s won't fit in the CD drive, however.
Digitizing from an analog source is generally a realtime only
operation. You might think that you could save some time by playing
the LPs at 45 and setting the sampling rate a 1.35 times the desired
rate, but then the equalization filter in the phono pre-amp wouldn't
match the pre-emphasis on the record.
Maybe you could convert those 3.75ips tapes at 7.5 ips,
though.
> Set the quality levels in your convert utility as high as you can. that
> way you won't have to rip any CD's over again. (My Linda Ronstadt albums
> had lot's o' dropouts, dunno why. ) (Linda who? :-) )
She's the one that did that album with Nelson Riddle, isn't
she?
Bill
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