This section provides a tutorial on how to validate WAV music files generated by FreeRIP.
If you followed the previous tutorial, you should have WAV music files
ripped off from a music CD. Here is what I did to validate them:
1. Using Windows Explorer to locate the second WAV music file:
C:\temp\wav\02-Track 2.wav.
2. Click right mouse button on this file, and select properties.
The properties dialog box shows up. The general tab displays:
File name: 02-Track 2.wav
Type of file: Wave Sound
Location: C:\temp\wav\
Size: 39,050,358 bytes
3. Click the Summary tab. It displays:
Bit Rate: 1411 kbps
Audio sample size: 16 bit
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Audio sample rate: 44 KHz
Audio format: PCM
4. Double click on the file name: 02-Track 2.wav.
Windows Media Player will be started to play this music.
Look at the play status window. The music play total time is
displayed as 3:41 (3 minutes and 41 seconds). This matches
well with the WAV file size 39 MB (about 10 MB per minute).
If the WAV file plays well to the end, FreeRIP did a good job
of ripping off music tracks from the audio CD. It generated uncompressed
WAV files with lossless (uncompressed) audio data.
