On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 11:17:16 +0100, "Raymond RUSSELL"
wrote:

I want to copy individual tracks for safekeeping from audio CDs onto my
hard disk,
and then copy selected tracks from there onto my own CDs.

As others have stated, to retain best quality, stick with WAV files.

Another point to make, which I haven't seen elsewhere in the thread,
is this: if you're doing this purely as an archive, to keep these
tracks safe in case the original CD is ever damaged, then you would be
better off writing the extracted tracks to a data format CDR rather
than an audio format one. Data format CDs have an additional layer of
error correction and are a more robust long-term archival medium. (Of
course, this additional error correction does consume some of the
space on the CD, so you'll find that you will only get about 70mins of
audio onto an 80min CDR when burned in data format).
--
Clive Backham

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