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Extracting audio from CD

The Explorer window allows you to easily extract audio from a CD into a data window. Each audio track on the CD is extracted into a separate data window.

1.Use the Explorer window to browse to and select your CD drive. The CD’s audio tracks display in the right pane of the Explorer window.

2.Select the track(s) you want to extract.

3.Drag the track(s) to the main Sound Forge workspace. Sound Forge begins extracting the selected tracks into individual data windows.

4.To stop the extraction process, you can click the Cancel button on the status bar to stop the whole process or on the individual data windows to stop extracting a specific track.

Tip: To extract a single audio track into a new data window, double-click the track in the right pane of the Explorer window.

Using Explorer views

You can control the information that is displayed in the Explorer window by clicking the Views button () and selecting a view. These options are explained below:

Item

Description

Tree View

Displays all of the available drives and folders that you may choose

 

from to find files.

Region View

Displays any regions that have been defined in the selected media file.

Summary View

Displays a short description of the selected media file at the bottom of

 

the Explorer window.

Details

Displays the file size, date and when the file was last created or last

 

modified.

 

 

All Files

Displays all file types in the active folder.

Peak files

When you first open a file, Sound Forge scans the entire file and creates a peak file. The peak file is stored with the same name and in the same location as the audio file, but it is given an .sfk extension. Sound Forge automatically updates this peak file whenever the original file is edited.

If you modify a file in an application other than Sound Forge, you can regenerate the peak file by choosing Rebuild Peak Data from the Special menu.

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