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From: jason@cygnus.com (Jason Merrill)
Subject: CD-DA
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Another commercial package that supports CD-DA is CorelSCSI!; I've used the
CD-Audio program (nice interface) to pull samples off a couple of CDs.
Took me a while to figure out that my old SBPro couldn't understand
anything better than 22Khz 8-bit stereo, though.  Shouldn't it be able to
deal with 44.1K?

Corel CD-Audio samples into .WAV files at 44.1, 22 or 11Khz, in either 16
or 8 bit samples.  It claims to give you the option of stereo or mono
samples, but the box has always been grayed out for me.

I was surprised by

1) How good the 22K, 8-bit stereo samples sounded
2) How much worse they sounded after I converted them to mono with SOX.

My CD-ROM is a Toshiba XM-3401TA, hooked up to an Adaptec 1542A.

I have no association with Corel other than the use of this package.

Jason