Audio CD's & WinXP

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Exploring an audio CD on my brothers laptop (running XP Home) appears empty,
properties also show zero bytes used (media player plays them ok). I don’t
use XP and didn’t know if this is normal or if there is a problem. He would
like to be able to see the number of tracks and space used as in Win98. Any
help appreciated.
 
Neil said:
Exploring an audio CD on my brothers laptop (running XP Home) appears
empty,
properties also show zero bytes used (media player plays them ok). I don't
use XP and didn't know if this is normal or if there is a problem. He
would
like to be able to see the number of tracks and space used as in Win98.
Any
help appreciated.
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Audio CDs don't report (I don't remember this ever being the case in 98
either) the size of the disk, since only the time total available on a blank
CDR to burn to Audio format is what matters. If he wants to know the true
size of those files, he should rip them to a folder using the .wav format,
which is the best no loss ratio when recording music to CDs. The bitrate of
wavs are 1411 kbits/sec @ 44000 Hz 16bit (typical settings).

So, a CD that has 60mins of music, converted over to Wav into a folder,
would translate into a total folder size of 677280000 bytes (677.28 megs).

If he wants to calculate the actual size using the total time (use seconds)
and multiply that by 11,228 (1411 x 8bits), and the total will be in bytes.
 
Tom said:
Audio CDs don't report (I don't remember this ever being the case in 98
either) the size of the disk, since only the time total available on a blank
CDR to burn to Audio format is what matters. If he wants to know the true
size of those files, he should rip them to a folder using the .wav format,
which is the best no loss ratio when recording music to CDs. The bitrate of
wavs are 1411 kbits/sec @ 44000 Hz 16bit (typical settings).

So, a CD that has 60mins of music, converted over to Wav into a folder,
would translate into a total folder size of 677280000 bytes (677.28 megs).

If he wants to calculate the actual size using the total time (use seconds)
and multiply that by 11,228 (1411 x 8bits), and the total will be in bytes.
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Thanks Tom,
Win98 explorer showed tracks as Track01.cda etc. and drive properties showed
space used in bytes and MB's, again thanks for your help.
Neil
 
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