Audio CD Problem

bobroden wrote on 1/31/2004, 7:37 PM
From the File menu of Vegas 4.0 I can successfully extract audio from a music CD, but from within the "Explorer" part of Vegas 4.0 the same files will not auto preview, and the file size for every file appears as "1.00KB" with the type of "CD Audio Track."

When I look at the same files from "My Computer" they all appear as 1KB each in size and the location says "Files Currently on the CD."

Although I can extract them, I want to be able to preview them from within Explorer. Any ideas as to what's going on?

Thanks,
Bob

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 1/31/2004, 8:27 PM
You can't auto preview right off the CD from the Vegas explorer, but you CAN do it from the Extract Audio From CD Window. Just click on a track and hit play. You can jump from track to track quickly from there.

Gary
bobroden wrote on 2/1/2004, 10:15 AM
Hi Gary --

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. It seems odd that you can't preview right off the CD from the Vegas explorer, since that's where one would logically want to preview music more often than not. Doing it from Extract Audio is much better than nothing, but unlike Explorer doesn't allow you to preview the music while watching the video with which you might use it. And it seems especially odd that the manual and on-line help don't mention this limitation, since again that's where people would want to look for audio files probably more often than anywhere else.

What's still confounding me is that I'm reasonably sure I actually was able to do it a couple of days ago -- I recall previewing specific music while watching the video, and I know the music wasn't (and still isn't) on my hard drive. This makes me still wonder if there isn't some box to check somewhere that will make it work.

Anyway, thanks again.

Bob
Chienworks wrote on 2/1/2004, 11:38 AM
Bob, by any chance, was the disc you were able to preview a data disc with .wav or .mp3 files on it instead of an Audio CD? If this was the case then certainly you'd be able to preview from explorer. These discs contain an MS-DOS readable file system; Audio CDs don't.
bobroden wrote on 2/6/2004, 10:35 PM
I must have confused myself about it, because it seemed as if I was, then later was not, able to preview the files direct from the CD. I think the answer boils down to your observiation that data discs contain an MS-DOS readable file system while audio CDs don't. Thank you for your response, I appreciate it.