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Re: DDS audio tape drives with Cygwin
- To: Brian Walker <bwalker at civil dot ubc dot ca>
- Subject: Re: DDS audio tape drives with Cygwin
- From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer at helixdigital dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 04:38:51 -0700
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010605165410.026d7a28@civil.ubc.ca>
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Walker <bwalker@civil.ubc.ca> writes:
Brian> I recently purchased a DDS2 tape drive capable of reading
Brian> my audio DAT's and have been looking for software that can
Brian> extract audio from the drive in Windows (Win2k)...
<snip>
Brian> While searching for other software I came across the
Brian> program called "read_dat" for the *nix environment. I
Brian> grabbed the source code and managed to compile the program
Brian> to work under Windows using Cygwin...
<snip>
Brian> My problem is that the WAV files output from the DDS drive
Brian> through read_dat are problematic - they sound like very
Brian> loud static.
Brian,
This sounds similar to a problem I've had when converting MP3 files to
WAV format for burning audio CDs. The problem was solved when I
turned on the byte-swapping option in my Linux CD-ROM burner app
(xcdroast.) Since the audio is in 16-bit chunks, problems can occur
when the byte-ordering is not correct for your machine.
Check and see if 'read_dat' has an option to perform byte-swapping on
the actual audio data. If not, check out the source code for cdrecord.
Hope this helps,
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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com
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