quoddiophile
Well-known Member
Well, this gets curiouser and curiouser.
Using Foobar2000, I must have tried reripping my Alan Parsons "On Air" DTS-CD at least 10 times to verify that the process I had suggested to GOS in a previous post would work. The best I could do was to get the stereo DTS Wav file stream rather than the 5.1 DTS wav stream that I had before. After further experimentation I have finally figured out the sequence. It is:
Under FILE, select OPEN Audio CD
Select the drive by DOUBLE-CLICKING it. For some unknown reason, this is the critical step.
The player will start. You should stop it because it will interfere with the conversion.
Then, Right-Click the contents and select Convert (make sure you have WAV selected as the output file).
I have tried this several times and it properly outputs the 5.1 WAV file. This process is truly bizarre!!!! I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as I have found Foobar2000 to be such an odd duck whenever I have had to use it and so I avoid it if possible.
I did try SteelyDave's method of converting to FLAC via Audiomuxer and it does work. However, at least for my Alan Parsons On Air disc, it takes a number of steps and isn't entirely intuitive as it produces "fixed" files for WAV as an interim step and for FLAC in the final conversion although they do seem to work alright resulting in 5.1 16/44.1 FLAC files. Using the dbPoweramp Music Converter to do the conversion is much simpler and faster, at least for me.
Unfortunately (actually probably fortunately in my case), the Alan Parsons On Air disc is the only one that I own (or am likely to own) and so I cannot conduct any further tests. Therefore, please note that this method might only work for my particular disc but might still be worth a try on other discs as it is relatively quick and straightforward.
Incidentally, this morning I tried it using my CD/DVD drive as well as my Blu-ray Drive and it worked on that as well.
Finally, I do recall that there is a technical reason why these DTS-CDs have to be converted to Wav first rather than converting directly to FLAC. At least I certainly could not get it to convert directly.
I have no idea if any of this will help anybody.
Jim
Using Foobar2000, I must have tried reripping my Alan Parsons "On Air" DTS-CD at least 10 times to verify that the process I had suggested to GOS in a previous post would work. The best I could do was to get the stereo DTS Wav file stream rather than the 5.1 DTS wav stream that I had before. After further experimentation I have finally figured out the sequence. It is:
Under FILE, select OPEN Audio CD
Select the drive by DOUBLE-CLICKING it. For some unknown reason, this is the critical step.
The player will start. You should stop it because it will interfere with the conversion.
Then, Right-Click the contents and select Convert (make sure you have WAV selected as the output file).
I have tried this several times and it properly outputs the 5.1 WAV file. This process is truly bizarre!!!! I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as I have found Foobar2000 to be such an odd duck whenever I have had to use it and so I avoid it if possible.
I did try SteelyDave's method of converting to FLAC via Audiomuxer and it does work. However, at least for my Alan Parsons On Air disc, it takes a number of steps and isn't entirely intuitive as it produces "fixed" files for WAV as an interim step and for FLAC in the final conversion although they do seem to work alright resulting in 5.1 16/44.1 FLAC files. Using the dbPoweramp Music Converter to do the conversion is much simpler and faster, at least for me.
Unfortunately (actually probably fortunately in my case), the Alan Parsons On Air disc is the only one that I own (or am likely to own) and so I cannot conduct any further tests. Therefore, please note that this method might only work for my particular disc but might still be worth a try on other discs as it is relatively quick and straightforward.
Incidentally, this morning I tried it using my CD/DVD drive as well as my Blu-ray Drive and it worked on that as well.
Finally, I do recall that there is a technical reason why these DTS-CDs have to be converted to Wav first rather than converting directly to FLAC. At least I certainly could not get it to convert directly.
I have no idea if any of this will help anybody.
Jim
@: I will try Steely Dave's method and see what happens.
