Creation of CD-R 16-Bit or .....

Posted by Nigel Pond [SysOp] [IP: 206.241.18.4] on April 01, 1999 at 10:30:58
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In Reply to: Creation of CD-R 16-Bit or ..... posted by Richard Blanco on March 31, 1999 at 20:54:46:

Stuart is more of a CD-R/CD-RW guru than I, but as I understand it the CD-R specification does not allow for anything higher than 16/44.1 digital audio data - if you try and burn at any other word length or sampling rate, it will either be truncated/down sampled if your CD-r burner software even recognises the format, or the software will not even reconise the digital data you are attempting to copy. Don't forget that 24/96 data in an uncompressed form is a real space hog so a 650MB caspacity CD-R would be filled quickly even if you could get the data onto it.

Also one of the music industry's big concerns over the new DVD-audio format is piracy so the new discs are likely to have elaborate copy protection schemes to prevent copying, but I guess a smart hacker could get round them.

I would suggest that, copy protection issues aside, the only way you'll be able to record higher word lengths and/or sample rates is onto DVD-R or one of its several non-standardised siblings and at the moment DVD-R drives and blank media are not that cheap.

I'll ask Stuart to check over my reply and comment/correct if necessary.

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