What freeware will let user rip 15 seconds, or so, from several music CDs to create another music CD?

[rnmcd]

Does the person have to go to the extent of converting the music CD tracks to mp3 then editing the tracks then burning/converting them to a music CD?

thanks!

 

[igowerf]

CDex has an option of ripping a specified part of every track. You can rip directly to wav so there's no quality loss through mp3 compression. Once you have the wav files, just burn them onto a music CD.

 

[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: igowerf
CDex has an option of ripping a specified part of every track. You can rip directly to wav so there's no quality loss through mp3 compression. Once you have the wav files, just burn them onto a music CD.

so the tracks on a CD are .wav not .cda?

 

[igowerf]

Yeah. I always thought of the CDA files as shortcuts. If you open a music CD in Explorer, you just see a bunch of 1KB .CDA files.

 

[DaveSimmons]

so the tracks on a CD are .wav not .cda?

No, wav is just a lossless uncompressed Windows audio format that ripping and burning programs all understand. If you were using a mac the CDA files would convert to AIFF.

Exact Audio Copy can also rip sections of tracks to wav.