Comments on: Getting the first side of Dark Side of the Moon onto a floppy diskette

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:47:39 +0000

In reply to hngr.

Well sure you could do a track at a time, but who couldn’t resist to try ot listen to 400+MB of WAV’s in real time?

Remember any CD-ROM ripping programs of the early 1990’s? I’m trying to remember how I got the files, it’s been so long I don’t recall. But 1996 would be about as late as I would imagine as I was working by then, and had access to a CD-R, so the whole ripping CD-ROM’s to digital audio didn’t come back into fashion until I got a DEC Alpha where I could RIP to MP3 in realtime.

By: hngr

hngr — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:05:53 +0000

You could configure early CD ripping software to encode to mp3 after extracting each track, negating the need for hundreds of megabytes of free space. You’d still of course need at least the amount that the longest single track took (in 44 kHz 16 bit stereo 1 minute would take up around 10 MB).

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:34:56 +0000

In reply to ender. In this case I'm using a vinyl FLAC rip at a higher rate... And RealAudio can't cope with anything higher than 44100.

By: ender

ender — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:17:54 +0000

CD audio is 16-bit stereo 44100 Hz, so if you got anything other than that off the CD, it either wasn’t CDDA, or your ripper transcoded it for you.

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:06:17 +0000

I wonder how Opus would compare today? … Off to check it out…

By: Gregg C Levine

Gregg C Levine — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:41:14 +0000

Cute.