On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:47, Claude Jones wrote: > On Thu December 21 2006 8:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I understand that, but thought it likely that one person would have > > access to a disk copying utility. For that matter, I'd be surprised if > > sourceforge can't offer something that could do it under windows. I do > > know someone who uses a whole raft of sourceforge utilities with windows. > > > > One thing that has confused me in this thread is that nowhere have I seen > > mention of the file format his original files are. If we knew that we > > may be able to help more. For instance, if his files needed converting > > to .wav files we could suggest utilities to do that, then zip the files, > > since unzip utilities have been available as freeware or shareware for > > decades, > > > > Just thinking around the problem, and feeling that we don't really know > > exactly what the problem is. > > I see the list has been busy while I've been sleeping - thanks to all for > the responses. As far as Anne's suggestion goes, we're not dealing with one > office, but many, all over the world, as well as individuals we want to > make it available to. Contrary to Tim's speculations, AFAIR which is now a > lot, you can't just burn an .iso file for an audio cd - it's a different > sort of beast, not really a file system, and doesn't lend itself to that > approach - perhaps I'm wrong, but that's what I see in many discussions. > What we've discovered is a freeware utility that is a Windows program, but > that installs and runs fine under Wine - it's called 'Exact Audio Copy' > http://www.exactaudiocopy.de - this is used to rip the original source (to > answer Anne), which is an audio cd, to the hard drive - the result is a > large .wav file and a .cue file - with those two files, which constitute an > image, most Windows burning programs can then burn back the original audio > cd - we've tested it with Nero and Roxio which seem to be the most > ubiquitous, and they work fine - so we're taking the two files and zipping > them up, and making those available via ftp - thanks to all, again - hope > this is useful. We wanted this done for Christmas by the way, which is the > other reason Anne's suggestion wasn't going to function > Glad you found a solution that works for you, Claude. Anne
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