Thursday, 02 May 2019
How Is The Volume Controlled When Ripping From A CD?
If you’re using Digital Audio Extraction (which is what is usually meant by «ripping»), then I don’t believe anything «controls the volume». You are simply taking the digital PCM data from the audio CD and transferring it to digital PCM data in a WAV file on your PC (well, you may also be doing MP3 encoding, but that’s actually a second step). The «volume» is simply a direct transfer of the sample amplitude from the CD.
