Hello,
can audacity be used to burn a CD ?
Burning CD's "
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Re: Burning CD's "
Audacity does not burn CDs.
My personal favorite CD burning program (Windows) is Nero.
My personal favorite CD burning program (Windows) is Nero.
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Re: Burning CD's "
Actually I tried Nero and was having problems.
I did a simple drag/drop, and played the CD in the PC and it worked fine.
I also tried using NERO to burn, and it won't let me due to insufficient disc space.
So a couple of questions:
1) is NERO adding or manipulating the files when it burns them, so
that the file size increases ?
(The file size seems to increase quite a bit as it says it needs twice the
space that is on the disc)
2) If NERO is the issue, is there a better/simpler system to use than NERO?
I'm running Vista home premium.
p.s.
I'm tring to get straight MP3 file from my PC to a CD disc.
Here is some info I got from someone else'.........
""
What you are doing in the first case is copying MP3 files onto a data CD, which is playable on your PC, and in the second case you are requesting that NERO convert your MP3s to PCM (wav) and making an audio CD. The latter case only allows you to store 74 or 80 minutes worth of music where the former is many times that. ""
AND my response
Thanks,
so is there a way to use NERO to do a straight MP3 copy ?
Also, is there a good/simple/basic shareware to use to copy/burn mp3's ?
The reason this all started was I originally did the drag/drop method
to burn the CD (which played fine on the PC) but when I went to
play it on my new dvd/cd player it wouldn't play.....
Note: the cd/dvd/ player does play other cd's with mp3 on them so
I know that it works, but those where done a while ago on another
computer.
So I though maybe the drag/drop method was to basic and that the player
needed some other settings or whatever on the mp3 files, which is why
I tried the whole NERO thing.....
I did a simple drag/drop, and played the CD in the PC and it worked fine.
I also tried using NERO to burn, and it won't let me due to insufficient disc space.
So a couple of questions:
1) is NERO adding or manipulating the files when it burns them, so
that the file size increases ?
(The file size seems to increase quite a bit as it says it needs twice the
space that is on the disc)
2) If NERO is the issue, is there a better/simpler system to use than NERO?
I'm running Vista home premium.
p.s.
I'm tring to get straight MP3 file from my PC to a CD disc.
Here is some info I got from someone else'.........
""
What you are doing in the first case is copying MP3 files onto a data CD, which is playable on your PC, and in the second case you are requesting that NERO convert your MP3s to PCM (wav) and making an audio CD. The latter case only allows you to store 74 or 80 minutes worth of music where the former is many times that. ""
AND my response
Thanks,
so is there a way to use NERO to do a straight MP3 copy ?
Also, is there a good/simple/basic shareware to use to copy/burn mp3's ?
The reason this all started was I originally did the drag/drop method
to burn the CD (which played fine on the PC) but when I went to
play it on my new dvd/cd player it wouldn't play.....
Note: the cd/dvd/ player does play other cd's with mp3 on them so
I know that it works, but those where done a while ago on another
computer.
So I though maybe the drag/drop method was to basic and that the player
needed some other settings or whatever on the mp3 files, which is why
I tried the whole NERO thing.....
Re: Burning CD's "
Standard CD's, if you want them to play in ordinary CD players, must conform to the "Red Book Standard".
Part of this standard is that the audio should be in a format of 16 bit, 44.1kHz uncompressed WAV.
Some CD players will play CD's that are not Red Book standard, but most will not. MP3's are not Red Book standard, therefore Nero converts them for you.
You can make a CD with Nero that holds MP3's by selecting "Data CD" rather than "Audio CD", but it will not play on most CD players, though you will still be able to play the tracks on your computer.
MP3's are typically 8x smaller than uncompressed wav's, so yes, Nero will expand (decompress) MP3's to their full size before it burns them as an audio CD. If you make a Data CD, Nero will leave MP3's in their compressed format.
Part of this standard is that the audio should be in a format of 16 bit, 44.1kHz uncompressed WAV.
Some CD players will play CD's that are not Red Book standard, but most will not. MP3's are not Red Book standard, therefore Nero converts them for you.
You can make a CD with Nero that holds MP3's by selecting "Data CD" rather than "Audio CD", but it will not play on most CD players, though you will still be able to play the tracks on your computer.
MP3's are typically 8x smaller than uncompressed wav's, so yes, Nero will expand (decompress) MP3's to their full size before it burns them as an audio CD. If you make a Data CD, Nero will leave MP3's in their compressed format.
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Re: Burning CD's "
I should have been clearer, the cd player is mp3 ready, so it will
play them.
play them.
Re: Burning CD's "
I've not got an MP3 ready CD player, but my DVD payer can play MP3 CD's. For that I just make Data CD's, and put my MP3's on it.
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Re: Burning CD's "
Yep, I do exactly what SteveTheFiddle said. I use Roxio's Sonic Record Now program as it has a "data project" button. That will skip the conversion (and size inflation) of the files and leave them in MP3 format.
Karl
Karl