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RE: Ripping AIFF to Mac

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>>simply drag files from the CD to a folder on the HD<<<

Unless I am mistaken, this can't be done because a PC won't recognize the Red Book file. A Red Book file has no header that a PC can recognize.

Audio CDs do not use WAV as their sound format, using instead Red Book audio. The commonality is that both audio CDs and WAV files have the audio data encoded in PCM.

However, I believe a WAV is an exact copy of a Red Book file but with the WAV header added. This enables A PC to recognize the data.

When you rip a CD and save it as a WAV, the ripping software is simply copying the Red Book audio file exactly then adding a WAV header to the data.

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