Below you will find links to various sites which provide help or information covering various aspects of vinyl to CD-R recording.
If
you would like a link to your site added or deleted from this
page, or if you have any other comments, please e-mail me (Derek
Higgins) at derek@wavecor.co.uk.
Computer Audio Links
| Resources for CD-R | The site for Mike Richter's comprehensive primer on all aspects of home CD-Recording. |
| CD-Recordable FAQ | Andy McFadden's extensive FAQ which is regularly and frequently updated. It is the offical FAQ for a number of newsgroups including comp.publish.cdrom.hardware and alt.comp.periphs.cdr |
| LP to CDR Tips | Clive Backham's excellent site which provides a wealth of information for both the novice and experienced users. A lot of the relevant hardware and software is also reviewed on this site. |
| Record Restoration | Mike Thompson's website devoted to restoration of old records. |
| Rarewares | A download site for the latest lossless and lossy audio encoders - mp3, ogg, flac, aac, mpeg4 and more... |
| HydrogenAudio | A very active bulletin board for all digital audio topics. |
| OSTA Home Page | The home site of the 'Optical Storage Technology Association'. Come to this site if you have a technical question which you can't find answered elsewhere. |
| The Tapeless Studio | This is the site of an on-line magazine devoted to computer audio. The site includes many useful guides as well as discussion forums. |
| The PC AV Tech | An excellent site which provides independent test reports and comparisons of many PC Soundcards and a wide range of other digital audio kit. There are also some first-rate tutorials and a unique 'listening room' where you can hear the results of various comparisons. |
External Encoder Download Links |
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| The following
links take you to
websites where you can download
external command line encoders for use with Wave Corrector. |
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| Encoder | Download Link (s) | Notes |
| FLAC (.flac) | http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id= 13478&package_id=12675 |
this can also be used as a decoder to load flac files into Wave Corrector |
| LAME (.mp3) | http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php | possible patent issues in the USA |
| Fastencc (.mp3) | http://www.geocities.com/fastenc/ | simple mp3 encoder; no tagging |
| Windows Media Audio (.wma) | http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ details.aspx?FamilyID= 03d169b3-a410-4451-82af-18f23fb63acb&DisplayLang=en |
Needs Windows Validation to download; no tagging |
| Free Advanced Audio Codec (.mp4) | http://www.rarewares.org/aac-encoders.php | |
| Nero Advanced Audio Codec (.mp4) | http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/down-ndaudio.php | no tagging |
| WAVPACK (.wv) | http://www.wavpack.com/downloads.html | no tagging |
| Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) | http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-oggenc.php | this is a later version of the encoder built in to Wave Corrector |
| Musepack (.mpc) | http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win | |