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Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 23 – 599
Importing DVD-Audio tracks into WaveLab
WaveLab provides the ability to read audio tracks from DVD-A discs. This
creates a digital copy of the audio from the DVD-A directly into an audio
file on your hard disk.
The main uses for this function are:
Recovering audio tracks from DVD-A discs you have generated and burnt
onto DVD via WaveLab’s DVD-Audio project window (see “Creating and
opening a DVD-Audio project” on page 552).
This function makes it possible to use DVD-A projects as “playable archives” from which
you can retrieve and play back audio tracks.
Similarly, you can use it to verify that DVD-A projects you generate in
WaveLab are rendered correctly, and that tracks play back as they
should.
This can be done before or after the DVD-A project is burnt onto DVD i.e. either from hard
disk or DVD-A disc.
Please note that it is not possible to import audio tracks from commercially
distributed, copy protected DVD-A discs!
There are also several other factors that determine whether WaveLab will
be able to read tracks from DVD-A discs or not, for instance if they use
compressed audio formats such as MLP, AC3, etc.
The only way of finding out if the tracks on a certain DVD-A disc can be read or not is to try.
If it isn’t possible via this dialog, the DVD-A is either copy protected or uses an audio format
not supported by WaveLab.
To import DVD-A tracks, proceed as follows:
1. Insert the DVD-A into the DVD unit.
As previously mentioned, you can also import DVD-Audio tracks from a DVD-Audio project
that has been generated to hard disk, but not yet burnt onto a DVD.
2. Pull down the Tools menu and select “Import DVD-Audio tracks”.
The “Import DVD-Audio tracks” dialog appears.
3. Use the Source DVD-Audio menu at the bottom left of the dialog to select
the DVD drive or hard disk folder from which you want to import audio
tracks.
Primarily, this is used for selecting a DVD drive containing the source material DVD-A.
You
can also select a directory on your hard disk in which you have saved a DVD-Aud
io
project rendered from WaveLab.