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copied cd in .wav and it became monophonic

Asked by Lance Thoreson

I copied "Surrealistic Pillow" from the store bought copy to .wav format and it is now monophonic. What did I do wrong? Thanks

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Lance Thoreson (motobike) said : 		#1

The track time is shown, but not artist or song title

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#2

"Wav" files do not store this kind of metadata.

From wiki:
"Unlike formats like FLAC, WAV files don't usually have information fields, for instance, in the case of a song, title, artist, album, year, etc.[15]"

Wave files should be stereo, unless you have selected a mono wave file as the output, or you are only playing a single channel. You should open the file in a program like "audacity" to examine its contents.

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Lance Thoreson (motobike) said : 		#3

Hi, I installed Audacity as you suggested, expanded the time scale, and saw that the signals on both channels were the same as it played. I then deleted the songs I had copied originally and re-copied the disc to the library with the preference set to FLAC. That did the trick. Stereo again! I recall that when I first copied the disc to the library I first set the preference to .wav format. I wish I could give you more detail, but I'm a newbie at this.

If I may ask one more question. With preference set to FLAC, Rhythmbox displays only the song timing. Artist, album, and title appear as "unknown". Or should I submit this as a new question?

Thank you very much for your help in solving my stereo/mono problem.

Lance

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#4

Seeing as you have marked this as solved, Id recommend opening that as a new question, so it appears up the top.

However, to sort-of answer your question the CD itself doesn't contain this data as it is WAV data. What it does contain is a CD identifier that can be sent to an online CD database to retrieve this information, such as CDDB.

In your new question Can you be very specific which program you are using to do the ripping? Did you use a CDDB service?