Hello Everyone,

Here is a question

If i rip a normal cd, say for example, using dbPowerAmp as a wave file, with 24bit resolution, will it burn on Cd using a burning programme such as Nero?

I am asking because I did burn some tracks at 24bits/44100Hz and although they played well on my pc, they could not be put in a burning project using Nero because I did not have a 24bit compatible card (was using the onboard soundcard back then)

Recently I purchased a Sound Blaster 24bit sound card and now everytime I try to burn with Nero it tells me the files (nero shows them as WMA, explorer shows them as WAV) are protected and cannot be processed.

Does naybody has any idea on how to overcome this?

or isn't it possible to burn at 24bit?

Regards,

I

It's possible while you read it with your PC (or another device capable to read 24 bits wav on a CD-R), but I really don't see the benefits to save a wav from a normal CD in 24 bits, you won't get any better sound.

An audio cd is always 16bit. Changing the bitrate will only degrade the sound quality.
Lossy files such as WMA does not have a specific bit depth but your decode choose what bit depth you decode to on playback.

AFAIK you can't burn a 24 bit wave files into a Audio CD without lowering the bit-depth to 16 bit... Because it won't match the standard.

The other thing is that your audio card have nothing to do with burning!

thank you guys, I guess I was getting too excited with the whole 24 bit thing.

I was assuming it would improve the overall sound quality to a mastering level, but it seems I was pretty much confussed.

So, now that I know I cannot achieve what I had thought was possible, I will try to find any proper advantages of 24bit hardware.

Perhaps for dvd-audio?

thx

I

DVD Audio only works if you've got Creative, but yes, that is one of the benefits of 24 bit hardware.

{sigh} You can't get 24 bit audio out of a 16 bit CD. All you're doing is padding the 16 bit data with zeros to make it 24 bits, with no actual gain in resolution. This goes in the same department as people thinking they can transcode their 64 kbps MP3 up to 192 kbps to make it sound better. You can't get more quality out than was put in.

It is in general the best thing to change as little as possible.
Rip CD to 16bit/44,1khz/1411,2kbps=wav and burn it as this.
Only if you're going to edit your audio, converting up to higher bitdepth as the very first step and converting back down as the very last step are sensible.