Ok, I have been for the past couple of months downloading a song or 2 as they come to mind.. Today I decide to take the time to burn them... Well it turns out that my software program (ADAPTEC Easy CD Creator) will not record MP3... It appears that it only accepts .WAV songs... What is wrong, do I need different software????? Will it work if I simply just resave the audio as "newsong.wav"?????

Any help is appreciated!!

 

You'll need to download something like MusicMatch that will allow you to rip, encode, and manipulate various formats like mp3 and wav. You're best bet is to go to a site like mp3.com which has all sorts of info on how to create mp3's.
Good luck!

 

and it make sense because only the newest cd players will play CD's in MP3 format. To convert to WAV format i have a program "cdex" which you can also use to "rip" files off cd's onto your computer. Or, you cna also setup winamp (it has a built in setting to ouput in wav format). Winamp is more annoying to use, i suggest egtting cdex. Make a folder just for the cd you want to create and output all your wav's to there. After you burn the cd you may want to delete since wav's take up a lot of space. Hope i helped, good luck!

PJ

 

You can select songs in a playlist and it converts them to .wav files. I'll check at work tommorrow to get the exact instructions and let you know how.

 

I got the "CDEX" it worked and I just finished my first CD..


YEAH!!!

Doing a little dance..

 

yea, but when I used it I remember that winamp didn't work quite as good. Then I had a rough time getting it back into the mode to just play songs, i had weird titles, multiple songs, ect. Just thought it woudl be easier for him to use CDex.

PJ

 

You can record MP3's with Adaptec, but you have to treat MP3s as data, not an audio CD. But if you want to play the CD in your Car or normal CD player you have to convert the MP3 format to .WAV format. If you just want to backup your MP3s then use adaptec and treat the MP3s as data files.
I would recommend getting MusicMatch Jukebox, it has great ripping and encoding abilities.

 

http://www.musicmatch.com you need to convert the mp3 files to wavs before you can make an audio cd. also don't buy the real cheap ones if you want to use them in your car and don't get the 80 minutes ones because they don't work sometimes either.
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K.. let's put this to rest once and for all, cuz I'm a computer type person, and it irks <-is this even a word? me when people say that your car stereo only plays wav files...

Not true not true!!! Your car stereo plays audio "Tracks", how your cdr program burns those tracks onto the cd is moot... Programs such as Nero allow you to burn MP3's directly, and with EasyCd Creator, you have to convert to wav format first.. (if you need a converter, i can e-mail one to you... just get in touch tomz@oddbite.com)

Why doesn't EasyCd burn MP3 files... well because its programmers are apparently cheap lazy bastards.. It's not that difficult.. really!!! [i'm a programmer, so i'm not talking out of my *** over here] The wav file format is VERY similar to the "stuff" that actually gets burned on the cd, and therefore is the "EASIEST" way out!!

Want to know how it works (i'm burning a cd right now, and have like 10 minutes to kill)... Well, basically, sound is a series of compressions in the air (longitudenal waves, to be exact).. Now, if you measure the amount of compression frequently enough (try 44khz = 44,000 times per second for a cd), you can actually store enough info about those compessions to make it sound good when you play it back... Sounds great in theory, but actually sux in practice...

Why?

Cuz back in the dark ages, when cd's were invented, they didn't have all of this super cool IC technology we have now.. So in order to make the cd format work, they store all of this information piece by piece.. IKE!!! Thats a lot of info, huh?? think about it 44,000 pieces of info per second... Want to know the real kicker?? people have two ears, so some genius apparently decided it would be a good idea to store twice the amount of information (STEREO!!!)...

Wav files do the same (for the most part).. (ever notice how BIG those wav files are??), so therefore are the easiest to translate into a cd audio track!!!!

MP3's on the other hand, are WAY too complicated in order to explain in any kind of depth here [and my cd is almost done]... Let's just say that they are smaller, at the cost of a little quality (most of which we can't hear anyway), and all of those little pieces of info are stored more intelligently!!!


-Tom

PS.. if you need a convertor mp3->wav, e-mail me.. tomz@oddbite.com

 

I'm confused with your response? Are you trying to tell people that they can play MP3 formatted music in there car? Unless they have a MP3 compatible player, then they cannot. As for Nero, it does allow you to burn MP3s into an audio CD, because it does the MP3 conversion on the fly while burning the disc, but in the end the "tracks" are in a .WAV format so that the standard CD players can allow audio playback. If it was still in MP3 format then you would be able to store about 10-12 hours of music on the CD.

 

oh... sorry for the confusion.. of course not..

You see, what I tried to say was that when cd's were invented, we didn't have enough processing power to "decode" more complicated formats such as mp3 on the fly. (looking past the fact, that the mp3 format didn't even exist back then... nor did you have computers anywhere near fast enough to do this type of math in real-time).

So now, we're basically stuck with a very INEFFICIENT form of storing that music on a cd (where in fact, we COULD store 10-12 hours of mp3's in the same amount of "space")... Your standard car stereo does not play mp3's NOR does it play WAV files.. It plays audio tracks (which adhere to a strict standard, with fine tolerances, defined in a bunch of colorful books.. (ie.. red book, organge book, etc.)).. ,which is sorta why EVERY cd player should theoretically be able to play EVERY cd!!! How your cd "burning" program arrives at those tracks is inconsequential, and depends on the software... It turns out that the programmers of EasyCd wanted to make their lives easier by having YOU convert your music to wav files (which happens to VERY closely resemble the way in which audio track information is stored)..

Moral of the story is, if you want to listen in a regular cd player, you burning audio tracks, not wav files, not mp3 files, not jpg files, etc.!!! If you are bent on burning wav files, your prolly gonna end up with a data cd, which is a whole different animal... (apples and oranges!!!).. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!!!

The newest generation of "mp3" cd players/dvd players reads DATA cd's AND the original audio cd's.... With the appropriate software, these players can actually "decode" an mp3 file, and play it, allowing you to store, for all intents and purposes, the same amount of music, in a much smaller amount of space...

Summary : No, burning mp3 files as data onto a cd WILL NOT work with a standard cd player... Burning wav files as data onto a cd WILL also NOT work with a standard cd player.. There's a toggle/option somewhere in your cdr software that lets it know you intend on burning an AUDIO cd.. The way in which you have to give that software data (whether it accepts mp3 files, wav files, or both), depends solely on the programmer of the software, and has little consequence with how it's eventually stored on a cd...

Hope this clears it up...

-Tom