29th August 2012
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#1 | | Gear interested
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Thread Starter | Extract wavs from DDPi files
Hi,
I have been sent an album master in DDPi format by a record company and wish to extract the audio files from it so I can reorder the tracks, embed new ISRC codes etc in waveburner before it is re-pressed. Can anyone recommend a free/cheap programme that will allow me to extract the audio files from DDPi?
Thanks
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29th August 2012
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#2 | | Lives for gear
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Change the IMAGE.DAT suffix to .wav. It's 16 bit, 44k1, little endian, stereo.
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30th August 2012
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#3 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Mar 2006 Location: Austin, Texas Verified Member | Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Reierson  Change the IMAGE.DAT suffix to .wav. It's 16 bit, 44k1, little endian, stereo. | True DAT !
JT
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30th August 2012
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#4 | | Gear interested
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Originally Posted by Greg Reierson Change the IMAGE.DAT suffix to .wav. It's 16 bit, 44k1, little endian, stereo. | I've just tried this but the .wav file isn't recognised by any application. I just edited the file name from .DAT to .wav - am I doing something wrong?
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30th August 2012
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#5 | | Lives for gear
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I've suggested changing the name to .WAV a couple of times to customers recently, but they weren't able to derive a usable soundfile this way - don't know why.
To the OP: don't know if you'd find this helpful, but email me at lowlandmasters(at)gmail(dot)com and I'll send you a free copy of Sonoris DDP Player OEM. You could then burn the DDP files to a CD and rip from that.
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30th August 2012
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#6 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by lowland I've suggested changing the name to .WAV a couple of times to customers recently, but they weren't able to derive a usable soundfile this way - don't know why.
To the OP: don't know if you'd find this helpful, but email me at lowlandmasters(at)gmail(dot)com and I'll send you a free copy of Sonoris DDP Player OEM. You could then burn the DDP files to a CD and rip from that. | The sonoris DDP player will actually let you extract the individual audio files directly from the DDP without the need to burn a cd and then rip it. It's an extremely handy program and is probably the easiest solution for what you are wanting to do.
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31st August 2012
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#7 | | Lives for gear
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Originally Posted by Strut78 The sonoris DDP player will actually let you extract the individual audio files directly from the DDP | Interesting - how do you do that, Simon?
EDIT: just found it ('Save audio files' under the File menu) - thanks Simon.
Even better, JMO1, no need for an intermediate CD.
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20th September 2012
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#8 | | Gear Head
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Originally Posted by Greg Reierson Change the IMAGE.DAT suffix to .wav. It's 16 bit, 44k1, little endian, stereo. | Sorry to answer to an older thread. But I think it's important to point out, that the first part of this statement is definitely wrong. The second part is correct, though.
The audio being in an encoding which happens to be supported by Microsoft's Wave file format is not enough to actually make it a wave file. Basically the header is missing (which is a bit simplified as Wave files can have more non-audio information that the usual header).
So, as long as you don't add a correct header in front of the audio data, changing the extension to ".wav", will not make any sense.
Best regards
Andreas
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20th September 2012
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#9 | | Lives for gear
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Maybe Wavelab is doing something behinds the scenes. Whatever the case, it works here.
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20th September 2012
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#10 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Apr 2011 Location: zurich
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Originally Posted by Strut78 The sonoris DDP player will actually let you extract the individual audio files directly from the DDP without the need to burn a cd and then rip it. It's an extremely handy program and is probably the easiest solution for what you are wanting to do. | +1  | |
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21st September 2012
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#11 | | Lives for gear
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For those interested, I sent a copy of DDP Player OEM to the OP at the end of August. His response:
"Wow, I can't believe how easy that is to use - problem sorted in less than 5 minutes of receiving the transfer!"
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21st September 2012
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#12 | | Gear Head
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Originally Posted by Greg Reierson Maybe Wavelab is doing something behinds the scenes. Whatever the case, it works here. | That's quite amazing, I have to admit. I know that it theoretically should possible to create a DDP in such a way, that the data file is actually a wave file, but I've never seen such an image "in the wild". And if that's really what Steinberg is doing, I just wonder, why they don't simply name the data file "IMAGE.WAV" - would make things a little bit easier.
Do you use WaveLab to open the renamed file? Does it open properly in other programs as well?
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21st September 2012
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#13 | | Lives for gear
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I've never tried it in other apps. Wavelab is pretty good at opening most things you throw at it.
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22nd September 2012
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#14 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Mar 2006 Location: Austin, Texas Verified Member | Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg Reierson Maybe Wavelab is doing something behinds the scenes. Whatever the case, it works here. | Same with soundBlade, easily opens IMAGE.DAT files, and export to wav.
Best, JT
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