Re: OT: Extracting part of a CD track

"Nil" <rednoise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 27 Mar 2009, "Steve Freides" <steve@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
alt.guitar.bass:

The file now copied to my computer and has a WMA extension - what
do I use to do this? I own Pinnacle Studio, which I'm somewhat
familiar with and pretty sure it won't do this, and I also own
ProTools but I've never used it and really don't want to get
started now, if at all possible.

You don't tell us an important piece of information - was your
original
CD an audio CD, or a data CD with a WMA file on it? I guess it doesn't
matter now, since you have track as a file on your hard disk in WMA
format, but if it was an audio CD, you could have extracted it to WAV
format and preserved the sound quality much better. WMA is compressed,
and you have already lost some quality. But maybe that isn't that
important, since your goal is to email an excerpt to the grandparents.
If you want to know how to extract audio from a CD, we can talk about
that separately.

So, since you have the WMA file already on your computer hard disk,
you
need an audio editor to trim it down. There are many good (and
expensive) commercial ones - I like Adobe Audition. A decent free one
is Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). The most recent
versions can open WMA files directly. You can also export your trimmed
version to MP3 format, which should be suitable for emailing.

We have the CD, too - all I see on the CD is a bunch of 1 kb files. The
file in question is track 9, so it's name is track9.cda - I don't see
where all the actual data is, and I have the view set not to hide
anything.

-S-


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