Convert from mp3 (or whatever) to CD Audio [SOLVED]

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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I would like to convert the files I make with Audacity to a format that will play on car CD player or portable players. I’ve tried several with
no luck? Is there an app that will convert to Audio CD format? I didn’t see that choice in the Audacity drop-down menu, or any other file
converting app either. Thanks very much for the help!!!

I’m using Safari on a MBP, with Audacity 2.0.6.

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If your MBP has an optical drive, you do it through iTunes.
Make a Playlist in iTunes and park your songs there in the order you want to hear them. iTunes will convert whatever you provided into the right format.

iTunes > File > Burn Playlist to Disk. Put a blank CD-R disk in the drive when it asks you.

I don’t know any Person Music Player that won’t play MP3s. In Audacity, install the Lame software package. You might also want to download and install Audacity 2.1.0.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Audacity > File > Export Audio> Format: MP3, Options: Quality-128, OK

Koz

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Please note that an Audio CD is a special thing. You can’t get one of those by simply dragging music over to a blank CD. In that case the CD turns into a Data CD, not an Audio CD. You just made a flat, shiny hard drive. Some computers will play those, but very few cars.

Koz

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See this tutorial from the Audacity Manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/burning_music_files_to_a_cd.html

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I’m not sure if using this route is the correct way to reply to your help message, but what you said sounds a bit more appropriate
than the others. Thanks so much for the guidance! I have quite a number of old audio cassette tapes that I’m trying to
burn to audio cd’s to play in the car. Thanks again! R.

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In which case the full set of tutorials from which this one comes may well be useful to you too: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html

WC

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7/9/15 THANKS TO ALL! Have it working fine now! :slight_smile: iTunes took care of it very nicely! It was a bit confusing
understanding the ‘playlist’ feature, but it converted to the proper format quite nicely! Thanks again!!!
R.