[WEB4LIB] Converting .cda files to .wav files

[Peter Scott]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Mark Stover wrote:

>I need to convert tracks from an audio CD (made up of .cda files) to some
>kind of Web-accessible sound files like .wav files.  (Ultimately I need to
>get it into Shockwave format, but I suspect that will be a little more
>complex).  Other than playing the CD and recording the sounds off of my
>PC's microphone (believe me, I've tried it and studio quality it's not!),
>is there any way to easily convert the .cda files to .wav, RealAudio, or a
>similar format?  

There are many ways to do this and lots of freeware (Windows9.X) which can
help. See:

http://nng.simplenet.com/snd32.html

The "rippers" i .e. those programs which create WAV of MPEG files straight
off a CD are useful. You need lots of disk space though and a fairly
powerful machine.