how to rip a cd straight to .wav with no 'track' gaps.

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sorry for missing the bleeding obvious, I've done this before. Media player loves to save to .wma. I' just looking to rip a cd to wav. with no gaps inbetween tracks; as it's a mixed album.
Oh god I need a DAW, I just remembered. Anyway to do this in windows?
Portable Audacity here we come...
Great Audacity won't do pull an entire CD let alone rip it.
Anyone know of a tiny program that'll rip an entire CD as one .wav file?
CDex, hopefully this will work.
Is Sourceforge still trustworthy? Personally I don't think portableapps are; if you use their app especially.
 
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I'd take that thumb and stick it up your ass, it's as big as you heed.
 
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Thanks jpgdnry. I'm not so sure it's gonna take a mixed CD and rip it to a single .wav file. At least you help rather than hinder. Merry Crinkle.
 
ABCDE works fantastically, don't know what your problem is. Don't know why you want WAV instead of FLAC either. http://abcde.einval.com/

"Alternatively, abcde can also grab a CD and turn it into a single FLAC file with an embedded cuesheet which can be user later on as a source for other formats, and will be treated as if it was the original CD. In a way, abcde can take a compressed backup of your CD collection."

That way you keep the track times & any gaps from the original CD, it wont add extra gaps to mess up mixed CDs & it's compressed so you're not wasting space. Music players will play it exactly like the original CD.
 
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Sorry DrGreedthumb, I didn't mean any offence. I just have many tracks that aren't available online, even on off-beat sites that cannot be accessed without other software.
I'll try the abecde software, just I've never heard of it and thought you were taking the piss.
But why compress a file when you don't need to? Flac is still compressed to half the size. You guys have the bandwidth, why compress a sample rate of 44,100 Hz at 16 bits resolution file, if you don't have to?
 
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That's incorrect. FLAC doesn't compress to half the size. FLAC is Lossless (aka Free Lossless Audio Codec)

FLAC is basically a WAV file with an ID3 tag. Much easier to manage in a large database.

Use http://www.exactaudiocopy.de with the FLAC codec. for ripping your audio cd's there is an option to rip as a whole audio file, separate tracks or whole audio file with .cue file.
 
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