'CD Burning' Questions...help please

[Mistress]

So I have a CD burner and I can burn any CD I want, no problem.

BUT, I want to make one disc of various songs from other discs and no clue on how to do it. If I could figure out a way to add the songs to my hard drive then I could burn them all to one disc, but I dont know how. It wont let me change discs during a burning so I cant do that either.

Anyone know of what I can do or any programs I can use?

Thanks.

M

 

[Kasha]

Sorry hon, I haven't a clue..lol. I make my husband do it. He isn't here now or I would ask him to help ya. I am sure someone around here knows

 

[Guest]

 

[RhumbRunner13]

So I have a CD burner and I can burn any CD I want, no problem.

BUT, I want to make one disc of various songs from other discs and no clue on how to do it. If I could figure out a way to add the songs to my hard drive then I could burn them all to one disc, but I dont know how. It wont let me change discs during a burning so I cant do that either.

Anyone know of what I can do or any programs I can use?

Thanks.

M

I'm no expert, but I think you need a program called a "Ripper" that allows you to pull MP3's off the source CD onto your hard drive then burn it to the object CD. Rippers are available to download on the net, but I have no idea how good most are.

Good luck.

Rhumb

 

[hatara]

What program are you using to burn the cd's?

 

[Mistress]

Re: Re: 'CD Burning' Questions...help please

I'm no expert, but I think you need a program called a "Ripper" that allows you to pull MP3's off the source CD onto your hard drive then burn it to the object CD. Rippers are available to download on the net, but I have no idea how good most are.

Good luck.

Rhumb

I was told to get a Ripper by a friend right before my comp lost connection :-/ By the time I made it back online my friend was gone and I couldnt ask any more questions.

 

[hatara]

Mistress hun go here to download and read about what it does.

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2140-10120487.html

 

[SINthysist]

Yes, that is right. You cannot directly copy it (that may have changed recently, I don't spend a lot of time copying CD's, only those that I travel with so if they get lost or stolen).

I've had several prgrams in the last few years. They all work about the same and cost in the 20 to 40 US dollar range. I prefer to buy software since I used to write it. I know I liked getting paid.

And I only hope the ripping is for personal archieval. I know people in the music industry like to get paid too...

 

[Mistress]

Thanks babe I'll try it out and hopfully it will do what I need it to do.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I've just set up my new Burning program. "Ahead Nero". It allows me to either burn a whole music CD or burn a CD from a few other CDs.

I think it would depend on your burning program what it allows you to do.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

if you want a song and don't want to download it from kazaa or Morpheus
you need a dc ripper to take the tracks off of the cd in question save it to the hard drive and save it as a .wav file (or mp3)

i've never doen this myself but freinds have.

good luck

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

Yes, that is right. You cannot directly copy it (that may have changed recently, I don't spend a lot of time copying CD's, only those that I travel with so if they get lost or stolen).

I've had several prgrams in the last few years. They all work about the same and cost in the 20 to 40 US dollar range. I prefer to buy software since I used to write it. I know I liked getting paid.

And I only hope the ripping is for personal archieval. I know people in the music industry like to get paid too...

if you own it your aloud to burn a back up coppy.

but according tot he law your aloud to keep it at another place (if you have two coppys inone house and the house catches fire you loose both copys right?)
so keep the other coppy at a freinds house for safe keeping.

 

[Mistress]

Ok got a few from one desk copied to my harddrive thanks to that ripper, so now I'm going to put the other songs I want there and hopfully make a kick ass CD

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

MP3 is a specific file format. Not all CD players can play them. So if you were to rip some songs (Audio Catalyst by Xing I recommend highly) and you were only looking to play the on the computer, this would work.


As they are on the original, they're in what's called CDA format (CD audio) Again, depending on the software you can copy them individually and compile a whole new CD.

The other angle you could use is the burning software. If you didn't burn the CD directly, but created an "image", adding songs to the image and resaving the image as you go along you could do it that way.


Hope that helps

 

[CarolineOh]

I have a Mac, so I use iTunes, and it is very easy. I just upload off the CDs into my music library, create a playlist, and burn it onto a blank CD. I'm sure there are other programs that do the same on PCs.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Generally if you have a CD burner it has the software to create remixed CDs, the only real issues are:

1) not all file formats are played by most CD players, so things like mp3s in particular may not work, and

2) not all burned CDs play in all higher quality stereo components, though interestingly enough very old ones usually handle them as do almost all the newly made ones.

The standard on Windows machines is Adaptec's Easy CD Creator, which has a drag-n-drop interface that's fairly intuitive. On Macs the same program is called Toast.

 

[CarolineOh]

Generally if you have a CD burner it has the software to create remixed CDs, the only real issues are:

1) not all file formats are played by most CD players, so things like mp3s in particular may not work, and

2) not all burned CDs play in all higher quality stereo components, though interestingly enough very old ones usually handle them as do almost all the newly made ones.

The standard on Windows machines is Adaptec's Easy CD Creator, which has a drag-n-drop interface that's fairly intuitive. On Macs the same program is called Toast.

I think there is a conflict between Toast and OSX. I used Toast before I upgraded, and with the new OS I had all kinds of trouble. But with the new version of iTunes, Toast is pretty much redundant anyway.

 

[blooflame]

Making a mixed CD

A) If you want an audio CD that works anywhere, then you don't want MP3 file format, you want CD audio (which is a stereo wav file at, I believe 44.1Khz sampling rate).

B) I use Easy CD Creator. You make a 'CD Layout' which you do by telling it what files you want from what CDs and/or directorites. Then you tell it to burn the CDs. It prompts you along the way. Works pretty well. Also can be used to copy from tape or LP, which is slower but does work). Other burning programs may work as well.

C) A "Ripper" is a term that used to desc ribe a program which copied audio files from a CD to the hard drive, sometimes they convert to MP3 on the way, sometimes you have an option. So, it may do what you want if you have to have the music on the hard drive but if you need it in other than MP3 format make sure the program does that before purchasing.

Bloo

 

[SINthysist]

Yes Fly, that's what I said. My difficulty lies in being clear...

You have the right to copy any purchased material for archieval purposes only.

It just seems that each succeeding generation has less and less respect for copyright law.

Soon we will have the same attitude as the Quakers. Every invention, thought, or piece of art belongs to the whole of man and no one person should be allowed to profit for any of the above.

Then what will have to bitch to the Chinese about?

 

[SweetCherry]

CDex works fairly well as a ripper. It also allows you to convert ithe MP3's to WAVs and back again. I've used it and it works quite well. As far as burning, I've got Nero. It's a rather quick program and reliable too.

 

[Up Too Late]

Real Player....

real player, juxbox lets you record CD track on your c:drive.
I'm sure they still have a free download on their site, realplayer.com

there should be a free version....and then once they're on the drive, just burn'em!

 

[Thomas Paine]

Among the best ripping software (choice of concert bootleg traders everywhere) is Exact Audio Copy, which is available as shareware at www.exactaudiocopy.de

It allows you to copy exact duplicates of selected tracks to a computer hard drive.

A lot of people then use Nero or other programs to burn CD-R's. My personal choice is Feurio, also shareware, because of its great flexibility. It's also a superior CD player, much better than Media Player and others. Download from www.feurio.com

 

[alwaysawake]

I use Sony CD Extreme and it does convert MP3's and WaV files to audio CD's suitable for use on my vehicle's CD player. I use it for personal use to make driving music CD's and works fine--just one drawback--it doesn't have burn-proof technology and occasionally will get buffer under runs.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

Among the best ripping software (choice of concert bootleg traders everywhere) is Exact Audio Copy, which is available as shareware at www.exactaudiocopy.de

It allows you to copy exact duplicates of selected tracks to a computer hard drive.

A lot of people then use Nero or other programs to burn CD-R's. My personal choice is Feurio, also shareware, because of its great flexibility. It's also a superior CD player, much better than Media Player and others. Download from www.feurio.com

Thanks, I've had problems with a couple of tracks where the ripper spun the CD too fast and the resulting MP3 actually skipped.

Surprised I never heard of this before!