What format to use??

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Whats the best format to record songs to a CD, that is pretty much universal friendly to players??

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Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


May 03, 2007 06:51 pm

.wav burned to red book standard (like all burning app do) they will become pretty normal .cda CD files playable in any CD player.

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Member
Since: Aug 13, 2006


May 04, 2007 06:31 am

Wow, I just now realised that when recording music using Nero Express, whether I copy a 5 minute song .WAV @ 60,000Kb or the same song as an MP3 at 3500Kb, it takes up the same amount of space on the CD because it records using Time instead of K-Bytes. I never realised that.


Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


May 04, 2007 07:25 am

depends how you burn it, if you try to burn it as an "audio CD" then yes, it may (never burned mp3's as an audio CD before), if you burn it as a data CD then it'll go by the file size.

Czar of Turd Polish
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Since: Jun 20, 2006


May 04, 2007 02:16 pm

Indeed, when burning an audio cd (.cda) for use in all cd players it will autmatically convert your 48000Khz 32Bit file (or a 128bit mp3) to 44100 16bit as that is standard cd audio.

Basically you can figure it around 10MB per minute of audio. Now if you record data discs for storing the originals then the size will be based on your format as there is no conversion. This will make said CD incompatible with standard cd players but is great for backups.

So... when making cd audio discs there is conversion going on in the background even if it does not display that info.

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


May 04, 2007 02:33 pm

for more info en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)

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