flac to wav burn

[wilejoe]

And a good evening to everyone. I just purchased this program since it came highly recommended for the marathon ripping project I'm about to start.
I have a few hundred regular cds and about 100 Grateful Dead cds that are in HDCD.
My plan is to rip all my cds onto my computer and also have them backed up on an external hard drive.
I was going to rip them all to flac files :smile2:
For now I plan on playing my music through cds but in the future would use some sort of media player
I am very new to this and would appreciate all the help I can get
I have two questions

When I need to burn a new cd what's the easiest way to convert from flac to a wav file to play in my cd player

And for my Grateful Dead HDCD files how should I store them and also what's the best way to burn them to a cd to take full advantage of the HDCD
I plan on getting a new cd changer in the future which probably won't be able to convert HDCD but has a burr brown 192 kHz/24 bit dac

Thanks
Joe

[Spoon]

Re: flac to wav burn

dBpoweramp can create Wave files from the FLAC files, select Flac files, right click >> Convert To >> wave

[garym]

Re: flac to wav burn

to deal with the HDCD (and no HDCD capable player), you should use the HDCD dsp. See the link below ion information on this. (I have lots of HDCD Grateful Dead CDs as well. I've listened to some on an HDCD capable player and compared (single blind comparison) to nonHDCD player in the same system. I couldn't detect any difference. This is probably why HDCD has essentially died out with a few exceptions (notably Grateful Dead releases). That combined with the fact that not that many CD players are HDCD capable either....

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?27540-Ripping-HDCDs-Best-practices&highlight=practices+HDCD

[wilejoe]

Re: flac to wav burn

Thanks for all the help.
I'm trying to learn all I can

[wilejoe]

Re: flac to wav burn

dBpoweramp can create Wave files from the FLAC files, select Flac files, right click >> Convert To >> wave

Ok I used the batch converter selected a cd from my music and hit the convert tab.
It converted it to wav and gave me 2 copies of each song
One in flac and a new one in wav
Did I do something wrong or do I just need to pull the wav files out to my burner program

I use windows media player does dbpoweramp have a way to burn cds , should I continue to use windows media player or should I just get foobar for this

Thanks
Joe

[Spoon]

Re: flac to wav burn

After such a conversion you would have the source flac files and the new wave files. If you want to remove the source files there is a DSP effect called 'delete source file'

[garym]

Re: flac to wav burn

Ok I used the batch converter selected a cd from my music and hit the convert tab.
It converted it to wav and gave me 2 copies of each song
One in flac and a new one in wav
Did I do something wrong or do I just need to pull the wav files out to my burner program

I use windows media player does dbpoweramp have a way to burn cds , should I continue to use windows media player or should I just get foobar for this

Thanks
Joe

I'd probably change my dynamic naming string so that the converted WAV files end up in a different directory (although with same artist/album structure...just a different top directory). This way you can keep the FLAC files for other uses (and these are better for archive as they have self testing CRCs built in for verification of integrity of file, plus better tag management). dbpa does not do burning to CDs, so you'll need something else for that.

[wilejoe]

Re: flac to wav burn

Thanks for all the help.
I've took your advice and I'm getting better at this. Is there a place to go that has tutorials on naming and tagging.
Also I tried this with a 3 cd set and as garym suggested I was able to get a half of what I wanted. It separated my flac and wave version but I wound up with 3 *1's 3 *2's etc.

Also is foobar better then windows media player for burning cds

Thanks once again and I hope everyone has a Happy St. Patrick's day

Joe

[garym]

Re: flac to wav burn

Thanks for all the help.
I've took your advice and I'm getting better at this. Is there a place to go that has tutorials on naming and tagging.
Also I tried this with a 3 cd set and as garym suggested I was able to get a half of what I wanted. It separated my flac and wave version but I wound up with 3 *1's 3 *2's etc.

Also is foobar better then windows media player for burning cds

Thanks once again and I hope everyone has a Happy St. Patrick's day

Joe

I'm not a fan of WMP for anything. I do use foobar2000 as a player and quite like it. I haven't burned any CDs for over 5 years. All my time is in ripping CDs to lossless digital files that I can then use on computers, on portable players, in networked music players, etc. (as an aside, why do you need to burn CDs? To play in a car?).

Regarding help on naming, not really sure. I just learned by hit and miss and reading this forum. You can run convert or batch convert, select ARRANGE AUDIO as the convert to DSP, and then once on that page, click the question mark next to ARRANGE AUDIO and it will take you to a a useful help screen. This has to do with file naming as opposed to tagging. You can choose convert to ID TAG UPDATE and click on question mark to see more info on dymamic naming, etc.

[garym]

Re: flac to wav burn

Thanks for all the help.
I've took your advice and I'm getting better at this. Is there a place to go that has tutorials on naming and tagging.
Also I tried this with a 3 cd set and as garym suggested I was able to get a half of what I wanted. It separated my flac and wave version but I wound up with 3 *1's 3 *2's etc.

Also is foobar better then windows media player for burning cds

Thanks once again and I hope everyone has a Happy St. Patrick's day

Joe

regarding 3 1's , 3 2's, etc. You probably haven't setup naming to include disk number 1/3, 2/3, 3/3. This way, the player, ripper, burner, converter, etc. will know something is track 1 on disk 1 vs track 1 on disk 2.

[garym]

Re: flac to wav burn

I use this "all purpose" dynamic naming string. I handles compilations (puts them in a compliations subdirectory, then creates album subdirectories) or regular artists (artist/album/tracks_) and also automatically deals with multidisk sets.

[IFCOMP]Compilations\[album] [IFMULTI] \Disc [disc][]\[track]-[title]-[artist][][IF!COMP][IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[artist][]\[album][IFMULTI] \Disc [disc][]\[track]-[title][]

[wilejoe]

Re: flac to wav burn

Thanks that should put me on the right track.