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Re: sound formats

Posted by James Steele on 2001-04-15

Honestly, these files are ripped files from a game WHICH I OWN, I should add ;-).  It's 
the game music, and there is no soundtrack released.  That's the input.

I use Nero for CD-burning purposes, and last I tried it only allowed CD-quality wave files 
to be used.  I'll try the rerecording method, though....and on a budget of nothing, my 
choice of sound editors is limited ;-).

BTW--I have a program called Ripper5.  It's all in DOS, it's command line-based, and I 
haven't a clue how to use it!  It keeps giving me a runtime error no matter what I do!  The 
readme doesn't tell me how to use it, either!  Anyone, perchance, know how the heck 
Ripper5 works?

Thanks for your help!  I'll give it a shot!

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> I haven't been messing around much with audio formats but through
> experience, you don't have to change the PCM 22,050 Hz, 16 Bit, Mono format
> to the CD-quality format IF you want to burn them on CDs as .wav. The lower
> quality format do have the advantages of having a smaller file size and
> much more suitable in multimedia presentation or probably using it on a web
> site.
> 
> If you still have to change it to the CD-quality format and do have some
> money to spend and some time to learn, I suggest that you get a hold audio
> processing software like Sound Forge. [This is not an advertisement and I
> don't get a single cent for saying this...] In it you can manipulate much
> more than just the quality and the formats... you can even cut the noises
> and the hisses and buzzes as well. You can even manipulate the stereo
> panning... this is a very cool stuff...I've been using it for a lot of my
> multimedia project. Though the no 1 rule is that you can get the best
> output only when you have the best input.
> 
> Well apart from all those stuff that I wrote... (thank god) there is an
> easy way to just converting the format without gaining much noises and
> buzzes... try play the sound file (eg. using WinAmp or etc) and at the same
> use built-in windows sound recorder to record the wav files again... adjust
> the volume/wave control until you get the best output that you want... have
> fun :-)