BEST METHOD FOR RIPPING AND BURNING

[ksrigg]

I recently pulled out a Philips CDR880 that I bought years ago and ordered a few CD-R Digital Audio discs to see if they would be compatible with my machine...and YES the Spin'X CD-R discs do work....

My question is, what is the BEST method for getting audio onto the discs? There are tons of Y.o.u.t.u.b.e videos which contain audio tracks I'd love to have..but what is the bit rate going to be? Is it best to record analog out? I have either SPDIF optical or coaxial ins on the Philips in addition to the analog RCA ins. I also have a USB DAC, but it outputs only analog..

What about the streaming services....I think they are 360k but am I going to get the best results by recording realtime using analog signal, or am I missing something? I do want to record ultimately to CD, and would like to be at the highest resolution possible..

I did do the trial at T. i. d .a. l, but wasn't impressed enough to pay the monthly rate...although I do subscribe to other services..

Is anyone else doing anything like this?

 

[laatsch55]

If you subscribe to Spotify the resolution is much better than if you don't, but I couldn't tell you what it is...

 

[ksrigg]

I do subscribe to Google Play and have Amazon Prime as well. I think all the services are 360K except T I D A L which is something like 4 times the resolution...


But from today, there’s a brand-new service that is launching in both the US and UK. Its main claim is that while Spotify offers 320kbps music, it will offer CD quality streaming using the “Free Lossless Audio Codec†or FLAC – ALAC (Apple AAPL +1.82% Lossless Audio Codec) is used on iPhone and other iOS devices. The specs say that you’ll get the full CD sampling rate of 44 kHz, 16bit and at a bitrate of 1411kbps.

That is the info I found anyway...

 

[ksrigg]

It looks like Audacity is the best way to go, unless there is something I am missing. It also seems that unless I had a soundcard that outputs digitally, the you have to use the analog output and then convert the already converted signal, back to digital... Geezzz..there just doesn't seem to be any way to do what I want to do easily...or without violating copyright laws, so I'm just going to be a good boy and buy the LP or CD....and then I can use the Philips machine to make personal copies...

 

[laatsch55]

Yeah, the copyright thing would get sticky. What I like about the streaming services is you can at least give it a listen before laying out the cash...

 

[orange]

Private usage was defined and accepted as legal grounds for copying nearly 40 years ago. If you physically own the piece (aka it's in your home and not subject to removal if you end an agreement to use a delivery service) you should be fine.

If you paid to use the file on any device you own then you should be able to transfer it between those devices and possibly back it up. Any service that doesn't allow for backing up and expects you to buy them all again would be braindead and I wouldn't go near it.

And as always, the Phoenix Credo is, "If it doesn't sound good in your ears, how will 700 watts make it sound good"?

You don't have to hide that you tried Tidal, we expect you to try whatever you like and do what you like, this ain't no Communist regime, and how are we supposed to know if it might suck if somebody doesn't TRY IT?

 

[orange]

BTW Sutton, your Christmas CD was made with a lot of help from You Tube last year, except for Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops "Sleigh Ride" which came from a 1960s or 70s LP I bought. You can save the audio and play it for yourself...sometimes that will be the only way you can find it. You can send a mixtape or CD to friends, provided that you aren't making revenue SELLING IT...THAT is a copyright violation.

 

[ksrigg]

I just don't want the 'bots that are trolling around to pick up on any juicy tidbits......like I think there is any way to stop it. The NSA is recording EVERYTHING everyone does anyway, so it probably doesn't matter. Recording from Youtube does work. I just didn't know if there were a way to get higher resolution, and I guess the answer is the TIDE thing...I probably need to just bite the bullet, and pay for it. There are some things that are not on every service, and some things on Youtube aren't anywhere else. And with the Taylor Swiftboat movement, a lot of material is only available by purchasing that material and I think that is the way it should be. Music does have value..I remember the days of buying the CD so you could make a copy on cassette to play in your car......before the advent of in-car CD players..

 

[orange]

 

[ksrigg]

what does Cheech have to do with it? Now maybe Chong.............

 

[orange]

Look at how he's looking back

 

[ksrigg]

 

[orange]

Old Cheech is cool but Young Cheech, when he was a bit more subtle and fashionably clueless...that was priceless

 

[Web Police]

If downloading from you tube I use a you tube downloader and download the whole video in mp4 format and then I use the converter within the software to extract an mp3 file from the mp4. You can then burn the mp3 to disc either as an mp3 or have your burning software covert it to a wma/cd track.

The resulting quality is fairly equivalent to whatever was posted on you tube.

I use the free version of YTD video downloader with acceptable results. You just have to be careful on thr install as they try to install other software unless you uncheck those boxes or decline them during install.

http://www.ytddownloader.com/