Re: [ARSCLIST] non-book CDs

[Andrew Hamilton <ahamilton@xxxxxxxx>]

     Quite write!  (lol)   Seriously, Alesis Masterlink 96's can write 24/96
files to R-CD (recordable CD - a CD-R is a CD-recorder, right?)...  Anyway,
as mentioned, they cannot be read by a conventional CD-P, which are normally
only capable of reading Red Book-compliant streams, but a PC can read the
Masterlink disc as if it were an ordinary ROM-CD.  On a computer, you drag
and drop the file to a hard drive and then open it in a DAW.  But with the
MasterLink, you can insert the disc and "push play."
    If you try to record a 24 bit/44.1k FS file to R-CD in something like
Toast, if it lets you, that is, you will be truncating bits 17-24 on the
fly.  This is, of course, undesirable, under normal conditions.


Andrew  


On 5/6/08 10:13 PM, "Matt Sohn" <mahatma57@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> What software do you use for putting 44.1/24 files onto
>> CDs?
>> 
>> Steve Smolian
>> 
> 
> Personally, I use PrimoDvd from Primera, (which also carries
> a Sonic TM), since I use a Primera Bravo II Disc Publisher
> (using a Plextor 715-A) for my copies. I drag the WAV files
> into the project window, and burn a data CD. It is perfectly
> possible and accepted practice to make 24/44.1 CDs, they
> just will be Data CDs, and will not be playable on a
> conventional  CD player. They won't be "CDs'" in the common
> sense of the term, but they are on CD-Rs. There is no way to
> make a Redbook CD at 24/44.1, since 16 bits is an integral
> part of the spec (please correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't
> read the Redbook for a while, or , um, never) I suspect this
> is common knowledge, but the fact seems to be obscured in
> the discussion.
> There are any number of readers (free and otherwise) that
> will play WAV files from a data disc, so playability is not
> a problem unless all you've got is a CD player, in which
> case, you're in dire straits indeed.

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