CDA files and Windows Movie Maker???

Hello all,

I have several questions about audio and making videos using Windows Movie Maker (WMM).

First, it won't let me import a song off a commercial CD because it won't import CDA format. .AIFF, .WAV, .FLAC and a bunch more formats are fine but no CDA.

I read you can use the RIP function in Windows Media Player. I just want the best sound quality and I am not sure that is best.

.FLAC is probaby the best but I don't think I have a converter in XP or what comes with it. Maybe you can recommend a converter I can download. Free would be great!

What I am trying to do is post some songs on YouTube that aren't there, so I can direct to and share them with other guitarists. YT doesn't have a place for audio files so I am going to put a title and artist and album name for 6 seconds and then a picture of the Album cover for the duration of the song on a video using WMM.

Hopefully YT will accept a WMM video with .FLAC audio files or does it get incorporated into the WMA file and that is it? Then it would be Hopefully YT accepts WMA files structured as I have outlined above!

Any comments, ideas and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks all!

Regards//Keith

Hi Gregg,

XP have a converter for that or is that something I download or get somewhere else?

Thanks!

Regards//Keith

Hi Gregg,

I already am nuts!


I like the no DLL or Registry changes but it doesn't convert (as far as I can see) CDA to FLAC files. Just WAV and MP3/4!

Close but no Cuban!

Thanks!

Regards//KP

Thanks for the .flac hyperlink! It explains a lot of things I didn't know. You'll have to forgive my ignorance as I am just learning the details now and the lines are getting less blurry (thanks to some of your direction)

As I learn more, the answers will become more obvious.

I still have more to learn about using different apps and what gets the best results and what doesn't matter!

You da man! I appreciate the direction.

Regards//KP