Hi folks, hope someone can put my mind at rest here. I'm having to make
bwavs of a few recordings I made in the past on a Sony D8 and have at
my disposal an M-box (SPDIF not AES/EBU) and a dat deck without a copy
prohibit on/off switch. Would I be right in thinking that once the
recordings are transferred to a computer audio file format all traces
of the SCMS tag are obliterated? (I'm making Bwavs but am interested
also in the makeup of AIFF, SD2 and wavs).

Thanks in advance everyone,

Jez

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Hi folks, hope someone can put my mind at rest here. I'm having to make
bwavs of a few recordings I made in the past on a Sony D8 and have at
my disposal an M-box (SPDIF not AES/EBU) and a dat deck without a copy
prohibit on/off switch. Would I be right in thinking that once the
recordings are transferred to a computer audio file format all traces
of the SCMS tag are obliterated? (I'm making Bwavs but am interested
also in the makeup of AIFF, SD2 and wavs).

I think the answer is "it depends". My sound card, with optical digital
input, completely ignores SCMS, allowing you to record to WAV, which can
then be burned to an Audio CD. Other sound cards may not ignore SCMS.

Jeff
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Jeff Findley wrote:

I think the answer is "it depends". My sound card, with optical digital
input, completely ignores SCMS, allowing you to record to WAV, which can
then be burned to an Audio CD. Other sound cards may not ignore SCMS.

But once it IS a wav (or bwav, aiff, sd2 ... ) is the file tagged as
such, or is it clean of such things?

J

I dont not know of any provision in these file formats for copy
protection information. If there were to be any copy protection bits,
I am sure virtually all sound editing software will ignore them.

-howy
zaxcom engineer

Thanks Howy, that's what I expected.

10 years back hardware and software folks used to specify that their
SPDIF INs would ignore scms, and these days its just never mentioned,
so I can take it that apart from my original tapes it's a thing of the
past ...

Thanks again Howy and Jeff,

Jez

howy wrote:
I dont not know of any provision in these file formats for copy
protection information. If there were to be any copy protection bits,
I am sure virtually all sound editing software will ignore them.

-howy
zaxcom engineer