Is this possible..?

[zrx14]

Can I record music with the panasonic dmr-e 50 or 60 and somehow get it to cd on the computer to play it on a regular car cd player or other?

What is the best way to make a music cd of just the music from these?

I have the e50 and e 60. If I record to RAM disk what do I need on the computer to turn into a music cd.....I know I can't do it with moviealbum from panasonic..no way to separate audio from video.

Also, is it possible to record a cd in the e50 or 60 so it will play in a regular cd player..i.e. stereo or car player?

I was just thinking about this tonite and thought surely there is a way to do this, but how?

I have no idea where to start or what to do...any help would be appreciated....thanks..t

[wingnut]

Well, the answer is yessssssss, sort of.

No you cant drop a cd-r into the machine and hit record (although that would be cool) but you can use a recorded file as a source for creating a cd/mp3.

Tools required for the way I do it

E55
Source (radio, sat receiver, tv signal or feed from av amp/phono etc)
RAM disk
PC with DVD-RAM compatible drive
DVD2AVI
Soundforge
Nero
LAME et al Mp3 creation software


I do this to capture some radio shows (sky digital in the uk broadcast radio4/7 which carry things like the new hitchhikers shows or recently a re-run of the one off 1980s Dr who radio show slipback, but I digress)

Record using quality no lower than LP (EP in 8 hour mode uses an inferior bitrate, I'm not sure of the six hour mode though) which will mean you'll get a recording of 352x576 (PAL) or 352x480 (NTSC) with ac3 audio at 256kbps.

* Drop the RAM disc into your PC and fire up dvd2avi
* open up the dvd rom drive, e.g. h: and navigate into the folder containing the .VRO file
* click add
* go into audio/dolby digital and select decode
* file/save project and save as a filename
* when finished close dvd2avi

now whereever you saved the project you'll find a project file and a .wav, this is a 48khz vanilla .wav audio file but you'll need to convert it to 44 khz for cd

* fire up sound forge/goldwave
* open the 48khz .wav file
* select resample and pick 44khz
* save the resulting .wav

you now have a compliant high quality .wav ready to drop into nero/cd burning software to make an audio cd or to load into mp3/wma creation software.

This sounds involved but it's pretty easy to do. Probably not as easy as recording straight into your pc audio in but it does have a couple of advantages:

1. you can use the dvd recorders timer
2. you dont have to leave the pc on to record something
3. you dont risk having the pc crash whilst recording a show on timer

and also

4. Depending on your sound card, the audio recorded by your panny dvd recorder may well be of better quality (those of you with high end cards I concede that you will have MUCH better quality with a pure PCM wav but I'm thinking of us poor joes with soundblasters or compatible/onboard audio )

Anyhoo, hope that helped


Cheers

Edz