Hi GodfreyY,

Re-recording using an internal soundcard setting such as "what u hear" (which is the Creative soundcard nomenclature for it) is one way to go.

You may or may not get a full digital exact copy by doing it that way, though. There will likely be translations of the bit stream and maybe small timing issues as well, depending.

I use the free Audacity.exe program for this and quite a few other purposes, you must install the base program and then install their "FFmpeg" library as well in order to open up m4a as well as quite a few other formats. Just read up on how to install and use on their website and follow their directions as to downloading and installations.

Audacity will then open mp4A directly, once it is inside Audacity and displayed on the timeline, you can simply go to the file menu and select Export and export the entire track as a .wav file, saved to disk somewhere, and then open that in any standard Audio DAW such as PT, BB, or the likes and continue on.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq_i18n?s=files&i=wma-proprietary

It is also a bit faster than recording from end-to-end, you won't change the overall levels inadvertently nor mess with the all-important gain-staging of the original file as well.


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