This is the simplest of questions for most of you, but I'm still in the dark. I've made a recording from a cassette player. I save it as a .mp3 using Lame. It appears on my desktop and everything appears to be fine. Do I then burn it to a CD? I tried that and then put it into my CD player, but no sound (though it's clear SOMETHING has been burned onto the CD). I must be missing a step here. If I drag the icon into iTunes, it plays, but why won't it play on my CD?
Thanks.
Burning CDs
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Mac 0S X 10.3 and earlier are no longer supported but you can download legacy versions of Audacity for those systems HERE.
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Re: Burning CDs
When you burned a CD from the Finder you made a data CD. You need to burn an audio CD if you want it to play in a CD player. You can burn audio CDs from within iTunes - check the iTunes help for instructions. Also see http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... =Audio_CDs .
Finally, I'd recommend upgrading to Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac
-- Bill
Finally, I'd recommend upgrading to Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_mac
-- Bill
Re: Burning CDs
I would also highly recommend that you Export from Audacity in WAV format (16 bit Microsoft PCM WAV) and not as MP3.
Compressing audio into MP3 format reduces the sound quality (permanently). 16 bit PCM WAV format is handled natively by all known CD writing programs.
Compressing audio into MP3 format reduces the sound quality (permanently). 16 bit PCM WAV format is handled natively by all known CD writing programs.
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