User Guide

CHP. 9 RECORDING, RIPPING, AND BURNING

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Ripping audio from CDs

Sound Forge allows you to extract 44,100 Hz, 16-bit, stereo data from CD.

Insert a CD in the CD-ROM drive.

From the File menu, choose Extract Audio from CD. Sound Forge identifies the system’s CD-ROM drive(s).

If the system is equipped with multiple CD-ROM drives, you must select the desired drive from the

Drive

drop-down list.

After you select the drive, the Extract Audio from CD dialog appears and lists all tracks.

Specify the audio to be extracted using any of the following methods:

• Select the

Read by tracks radio button and select all desired tracks.

• Select the

Read entire CD radio button to extract all tracks.

• Select the

Read by range radio button and enter appropriate values in the Start and End (or Length) boxes.

Select extraction options as needed:

• Select the

Create regions for each track check box to add each extracted track to the file’s Regions List.

• Select the

Create markers for each index change check box to place markers in the extracted file at all

points where indices occur in the original track.

Click OK. Sound Forge begins extracting data from the CD and displays a progress meter.

Note:

Upon completion, each extracted track

displays in a unique data window.

Previewing CD tracks

Select a track and click Play to preview a track prior to extracting it from the CD. To end the preview, click

Stop.

Refreshing the Extract Audio from CD dialog

Click the Refresh button after you insert a new CD in the system’s CD-ROM drive. This allows you to view

the contents of the new CD without closing and reopening the Extract Audio from CD dialog.

Extract Audio from CD dialog