question re: optical digital input

[JonTom]

Hi to all -
If I purchase an add-in card for my SBLive! Value that includes an optical digital input (ie: a live drive, etc.), will I be able to record music from my CD player (which has an optical digital output) in digital quality?

What I want to be able to do is program a list of songs to play from my 300 disc player, hit play on the cd player, record on the pc, and have it store the wav file(s) to my HD. When I try to record analog, I get pops, hiss, etc. This is what I want to avoid, along with having to find the cds in the player, manually record each track (at a higher, DAE speed, mind you), then replace the cds to the correct slot in the player.

Does my question make sense? Does anyone know the answer? Will the songs end up as one, 80 min wav file? 20 individual files (not likely, I guess)? How big is an 80 min .wav file???

TIA

JonTom

 

[thraxes]

not exactly HT but ohwell... u will be moved soon enough

It will probably be all in one file (no loss in quality though.. it is after all digital!) unless there is a software out there that will seperate the recording when there is silence (like recording to MD)... I don't know which prog can do something like that

 

[JonTom]

Thanks -

didn't mean to post OT, but I guessed that people in this forum would be able to answer this better. I figured there aren' t too many people who would have tried this - maybe someone here has...

JonTom

 

[alpha88]

80 min .wavs are 700megs, It will be much easier to just rip the CDs (keep as .wav, or to mp3 or shl(?)) If you dont want to worry about the time, you might as well just pay some kid to change CDs and hit ok.

 

[alpha88]

also important to note, if you're using win98, it doesn't seem to like dealing with 700meg files very well (as in cutting them to individual songs).