Audio CD questions 4438

I have keyed my answers below to your questions.

HTH,

Cheers, Dave

Charles Sullivan

Yes, to do this you should edit the meta information which is part of every track. Your tracks may not now have any information -- that depends upon what data was keyboarded in when the conversion from disc to disk took place. If you look at one of the audio track "properties" you will see some information there.

Next, when you copy the existing tracks from the original CD, you will be able to produce an ID file which accompanies the track. This is the track data file which has places for all kinds of information.

Finally, when you prepare the tracks for re-burning to a new CD you wil be able to edit each of the track data tags and that informaiton will show up when the track is played. For example, my CD player in my car also plays MP3's and .ogg files (music files) and the track information appears on the LCD screen of the car player in case I can't remember whose track it is.

This might not be a bad idea anyway. If you have personal knowledge of the people whose voices are speaking to the listener from beyond the grave, you would do very well to record your recollections about those people and what you remember about the making of the recordings.

For example, I have a CD which I burned from a very fragile little 5" "V-Mail" plastic disc which my mother recorded and sent to my father who was overseas during World War Two. The disk has my mother saying "Ah-Goo, Ah-Goo!, that's a fine little boy! Say hello to your daddy." There is then a few minutes of crying and some more "Ah-Goo" and finally "I Love You, come home soon!"

Well that was ME crying in March 1944 a week after I was born. But without the story which I recorded after that, my children and their children would never know who it was and why it was recorded and even what a "V Disk" was (a very light weight record made on a portable wind-up recorder that could be mailed to the troops overseas - the "V" stood for Victory, which, of course, we achieved).

You don't need to be concerned with loss when you are doing a digital transfer of a very low fidelity monoaural sound which is what came from the 78 disc. It is, for your purposes, "lossless".