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Originally Posted by Musicianaire
Same way as getting REAPER to record from any other source. Run a cable from the tape deck output, into the laptop.
Fortunately it's not a critical mission, but if it was I would definitely follow that path.
My main concern is making sure that when my friend plays the CD, the song titles and other info come up properly. I'm assuming I need to use .wav files, and they can't be ID3 tagged, so I'm not sure how to make that happen.
That's why I asked someone to walk me through it, not just suggest burners. lol
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There are two systems used for displaying artist/song titles from CD.
One comes from the physical CD itself: Redbook + text.
The other uses one or more online database webpages and matches it up by songs and lengths. And it's what the first person entered into the database, right or wrong. None of this comes from the physical CD.
This old CD format has another quirk:
The track index points need to be on 75 frames/sec boundaries. If you don't, you'll get little added gaps to fill to the next boundary.
Quick as I'm able:
Render your 24 bit master files.
You can set the Reaper grid to 75 frame/sec. Do that when you decide on the split points.
Name the files.
Render a set of files at 44.1k (downsampled if your master is higher) and then converted to 16 bit. (You can audition dither at this stage. Use it if you think you hear it making a difference and sounding better.)
Burn to CD with whatever app is convenient to you. Click on the "use CD text" feature. Everything should have that. Reaper has the DDP format as well as a very old school cue file + audio file thing. Probably faster to just launch iTunes, drop the files in a playlist, tick the "use CD text" box and burn from that. DDP is the 'pro' format with checksum features and all that you can electronically submit to duplication services. Covers everyone's behinds with the verification.
Now use the media player apps to connect to the online databases and submit the artist/title info. After you do that - and it will take more that 20 minutes of screwing around - the computer media players will give you the song titles. The two most popular are MusicBrainz and Gracenote
Curiously, not much - including most computer media players - uses the "+ text" info that's right freakin there on the CD itself.