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Trebor
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Re: I have a little question

Post by Trebor » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:02 am

sunnyard5666 wrote:The CD replays perfectly on the computer but will not play on any other CD players that I have which, admittedly, are quite old.
Old stand-alone CD-players don't play mp3-format audio files.
Here's how to make a CD which is playable on stand-alone CD players ...
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/bur ... _a_cd.html
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roadsterUK
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Re: I have a little question

Post by roadsterUK » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:05 am

Presumably you transferred the files to CD simply by copying them. Most CD players will not recognise the windows file format so you require software which will take your files and write them in the standard format for an audio CD. For example there is an optional component for Foobar 2000 called audio CD writer. Foobar2K is free software although not open source like Audacity.
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Re: I have a little question

Post by waxcylinder » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:00 am

sunnyard5666 wrote: ... I've managed to record some old audio tapes onto the computer as MP3 files and transferred them to CD. I haven't a clue what MP3 means.
MP3 is a compressed format (where some of the audio information is thrown away) mainly for use on small portable playback devices - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3

For making CD's you need WAV files - and Trebor's instructions

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Re: I have a little question

Post by waxcylinder » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:03 am

sunnyard5666 wrote:I'm using Windows 7 and Audacity 2.05.
I presume yo mean 2.0.5 ?

If so that is a very old version - the latest release is 2.2.2 and we've fixed a lot of bugs and added good new features since 2.0.5.

You can get the latest release from here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

This page in the Audacity Wiki will shoiw you the changes since 2.0.5: https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Auda ... s#releases

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