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Making
CD’s from mp3
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Don’t use CD-RW media - use regular CD-R disks (which are cheaper anyhow).
Most audio players simply won't recognize a CD-RW disk at all, no matter how you
burn it. Use a CD-R disk, and use the "create an audio disk" feature
of your software (i.e. don't just copy the files to the disk as data). ****
Here
we go...
Decode
the MP3 files to WAV files. Generally any MP3 player will do this.
Select
Output and press the Configure button to choose the directory for your WAV
files. Then just "play" the songs you want to convert.
Pretty
much any CD burning program should be able to burn an audio CD from WAV files
(sampled at 44.1 KHz) without a problem. Make sure that you choose the
"Audio CD" option in your software when preparing to copy to your disk
- you don't want to just copy the WAV files to a "data CD" (which I
assume is what is happening).
Also,
if you want the disk to play and select tracks without a problem in various
audio CD players (car, home, etc..), you might want to try and use the
"Disk at once" option, which burns the whole CD without turning off
the laser (likely located on the "Advanced" tab just before you do the
actual recording).
CDs
burned in "disk at once" mode will generally be handled better by
audio CD players.
However....
CDs
burned in "track at a time" mode, where the laser is turned off
between each track, will generally play ok, but many audio CD players can't
successfully skip to any track other than the first on such disks, which is kind
of a pain. It will basically read your whole CD as one long song.
Question....
If
you have made an audio CD and it plays ok on your PC but won't play on your home
or car stereo - These are the possible reasons:
- You
recorded it on a CD-RW disk. Most new computer drives read these fine. Very
few audio players will read them at all.
- You
recorded the CD as a data CD or as a multi-session CD. Audio players will
only read audio CDs, and even on audio CDs, they will only recognize the
first "session". Computer drives, OTOH, can cheerfully read data
CDs, and can read CDs recorded in multiple sessions.
- If
neither of the above is your problem, it may just be that the brand of CDR
disk you are using does not work well with your audio player. This happens
sometimes. Try a different brand. I have had no problems with Kodak, Sony,
Samsung, or Fuji disks, whereas I have had some problems with Memorex,
Maxell and no name disks (Maxell seemed OK at first, but the last box I
bought were bad...).
- Another
thing to try is to burn at a slower speed. Try burning a disk at 1x (rather
than 2x or 6x or whatever speed your burner drive supports). Sometimes audio
CDs burned at slower speeds will work in audio players whilst disks burned
at higher speeds won't - I think that the laser encoding is somehow
"clearer" when burning at slower speeds and this helps audio
players, which often have a problem with home-burned CDs, to cope with the
disks.
- If
your CD won't play at all, this probably isn't your problem... but another
tip is to try and record all your audio CDs in "disk at once"
mode, meaning the whole disk is burned in one pass without turning off the
laser. Audio players like disks burned like this better. If you burn the
disk "track at a time" the laser is turned off between each track,
and audio players often cannot find any track other than the first one on
such disks, although if you just start them playing at the first track and
leave them, they'll usually play all the way through fine.
The
following is a great "link" to a website called: Audio valley... It
has great "getting started" material/FAQ's and is a good search engine
for Mp3 music.
http://www.audiovalley.com/mp3/mp3-to-audio-cd.html
Good
Luck and I hope everything works out.... Let me know how it goes.