I need a little help from the "Mixperts" (Mixcraft Experts).
My mother has played piano at church over 62 years. Some time back, the Soundman at her church had her record her favorite hymns. When finished, he burned cd's. When I look at the files in Windows Explorer, I see that each song is a type .cda file. I have also save the cd to my hard drive and the files there are type .wma files. Now my question.
Can I import either the .cda or the .wma files in to Mixcraft 6 Pro Studio and attempt to mix/master them; then ultimately produce a "better sounding" cd?
Thanks in advance for the replies and information.
Those .cda files aren't actually audio files, they are kind of like little flags for actual audio, which is in wav format. You need to "rip" the CD to extract the audio, and you can do that with Windows Media Player, iTunes and other similar programs. Once the songs have been ripped as wav files or mp3 files or WMA files, you can load them into Mixcraft.
I thought I would try this and see how it turns out. I also have pictures of her playing. I may even attempt to insert some of them into a video track. Hopefully, this will turn out to be a nice keepsake.
Thanks for the information and the quick response.
I noticed that the cd that we got from the "Soundman" contains .cda files. I used this cd to upload the songs on the hard drive of my work computer. When I look at them they are .wma files.
Hopefully, I can just import them to MC.
You need to "rip" the CD to extract the audio, and you can do that with Windows Media Player, iTunes and other similar programs. Once the songs have been ripped as wav files or mp3 files or WMA files, you can load them into Mixcraft.
First, ripping a CD means extracting the individual tracks as individual playable audio files. It doesn't mean creating an image of the disk or extracting CD ready files. An image or raw cda file is not a recognizable playable file .
The ripping program should have file format options to rip the tracks from the CD as MP3, OGG, WAV, etc. . Best to rip them as .wav as that is pretty much raw PCM that almost any audio program can read and playback.
If it still doesn't work after having ripped the tracks to .wav files, your ripping program might be doing something unconventional. Check the settings and make sure it is extracting to .wav (PCM) 16 bit 44,100 Hz (44.1 kHz) files .
and MC is still not recognizing the songs I’m trying to import?
