Question About MP3's

[Marxist]

I downloaded a bunch of free songs (MP3 format) from an artist's website. They play fine in all of my players (RealAudio, WindowMedia, etc.), however they WILL NOT BURN ONTO A CD!

How can I get a burner to recognize these MP3's?

Is it intentional? This artist has never been shy about making her MP3's burnable in the past.


HELP

 

[CarolineOh]

Are you sure you didn't download them as streaming audio?

 

[mritsme]

what program you using to burn them?

 

[Marxist]

Are you sure you didn't download them as streaming audio?

Definitely MP3. That's what it says when I pull up the properties box.


I'm using Adaptec Easy Cd and I've tried Roxio (built into RealAudio).

Actually Adaptec called them MP3A (audio), which I find odd. But under properties it still comes up as simply MP3.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

CDs are burned in a different format. Most CD players will not read MP3.

You need to convert them to a different format ("wave" I think) then burn them.

This will degrade the quality though. The music was originally in wave format and compressed to MP3 at some bit rate. The compression losses information. The when you convert back and play the CD on a stereo you will notice a difference that you didn't notice on your computer or MP3 player.

 

[mritsme]

ok does it give you an error message or say y it can't? or does it pretend to be burning and then it stops and you've wasted another cd?

 

[CoolidgEffect]

I believe you can download MusicMatch Jukebox for free and this will help with the file format conversion.

 

[mritsme]

CDs are burned in a different format. Most CD players will not read MP3.

You need to convert them to a different format ("wave" I think) then burn them.

This will degrade the quality though. The music was originally in wave format and compressed to MP3 at some bit rate. The compression losses information. The when you convert back and play the CD on a stereo you will notice a difference that you didn't notice on your computer or MP3 player.

though note most programs like adeptec will do mp3's thats what i use its not the cd player that needs recognize but the program

 

[Marxist]

ok does it give you an error message or say y it can't? or does it pretend to be burning and then it stops and you've wasted another cd?

It won't let me add them to the corral of songs to be burned. I never get to the burning part.

Thanks Cool, I think I'll try MusicMatch and try to convert.

 

[CarolineOh]

Definitely MP3. That's what it says when I pull up the properties box.


I'm using Adaptec Easy Cd and I've tried Roxio (built into RealAudio).

Actually Adaptec called them MP3A (audio), which I find odd. But under properties it still comes up as simply MP3.

I wish I could help, but I use iTunes and don't know much about the other formats.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

though note most programs like adeptec will do mp3's thats what i use its not the cd player that needs recognize but the program

Well I was thinking conventionaly stereo CD player vs computer. But you are right.

I don't see any reason why he couldn't burn a CD with MP3s. They are just files. A computer with the proper software would recognize it. However pop it into his car stereo and he probably wouldn't hear a thing.

 

[mritsme]

Well I was thinking conventionaly stereo CD player vs computer. But you are right.

I don't see any reason why he couldn't burn a CD with MP3s. They are just files. A computer with the proper software would recognize it. However pop it into his car stereo and he probably wouldn't hear a thing.

and you are right about that if you burn mp3's you can only play them in a cd player that does recognize them so if you don't have one you do need to convert to wave. sorry was not thinking that far ahead was dwindiling just the burning part lol

 

[Marxist]

OK kids, try it yourself. The songs are decent.

Just try to put them in the corral to be burned, you don't have to go through with the actual burning to see if they work.

http://www.jillsobule.com/music.asp

And the songs that I'm referring to are: "Frank Mills" and "Almost Fell."

I have copies of the other songs from other sources and they play and burn fine, so don't bother to try the experiment with them.

 

[Marxist]

Has anyone tried the experiment?

How'd it go?

 

[Spinaroonie]

Marx, are you trying to burn to an mp3 cd (like oddly enough everyone else has assumed) or a playable audio CD?

If it's an audio CD try using WinAmp (or other audio tools) to convert the mp3 to a wav, it might take a bit, but you'll come out with a 40mb or so file that'll convert to CDA pretty easily.

 

[Dillinger]

A number of the programs do the conversion on the fly.. the one I use that seems to work very well is Roxio Easy CD Creator... it makes the process very simple, and even includes the ability to make a label for the CDs.

A program I've heard good things about, but have never tried, is Nero. Apparently Nero is good at burning things that other programs won't let you.

Looks like you've solved the problem, in any case.

 

[Marxist]

Marx, are you trying to burn to an mp3 cd (like oddly enough everyone else has assumed) or a playable audio CD?

If it's an audio CD try using WinAmp (or other audio tools) to convert the mp3 to a wav, it might take a bit, but you'll come out with a 40mb or so file that'll convert to CDA pretty easily.

I'm trying for an audio CD. I'm gonna do the winamp thing and see what develops.

 

[Darowyn]

Hi Marxist!
I'm downloading one track now. It seems to be the right size for a good quality MP3.
What I usually do is convert MP3s with a special program. I used to use a free one called MP32WAV from a web site called Remixer.
You could try searching for either of those names on the web.
I use Pyro now, because it converts audio files in all directions, and because somebody gave me a copy.
If you have broadband and a good ISP, I could convert the files for you and email them from work, where we have ISDN.
Cheers

 

[Darowyn]

Seems fine to me. I downloaded "Almost Fell".
Adaptec Create CD was quite happy for me to put it onto an Audio CD.
Cakewalk Pyro has converted it from a 3Meg MP3 to a 30 Meg WAV amd enhanced it to put some of the sparkle back.
I have not actually tried to burn it - but if it was going to do anything silly it would have done it by now.
Let me know if you want the WAV.
Cheers

 

[Marxist]

D, thanks for the offer. I figured it out with winamp.

Did you enjoy the song?

 

[Darowyn]

Great song, sexy voice, nice Hammond organ sound- just my sort of thing!