Extracting Audio From CDs

Tools Menu

From the Tools menu, choose Extract Audio from CD to extract tracks from a CD and open them in Sound Forge.


  1. From the Tools menu, choose Extract Audio from CD.

  2. From the Drive drop-down list, choose the CD drive that contains the CD from which you want to extract audio.

  3. Specify how you want to extract audio:

If you select the Read entire CD or Read by range radio buttons, you can select the Create regions for each track and Create markers for each index change check box to create regions and markers to indicate each track and index change in the new data window.

Click Play to preview your selection.

  1. Click OK to start extracting audio.

    If you experience problems extracting audio, choose a slower speed from the Speed drop-down list. Decreasing the speed decreases the size of the memory buffer required.