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Rustiferion
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:05 am Post subject:
Changing file formats |
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Hello
I'm new to this ng (a fact that will soon become obvious), and have a real
entry-level question, but that's the level I'm at, and I hope this is the
right place to ask:
What is the file format used by audio CD players, and what is the process of
recoding and burning .mp3 and .m4a tracks to a CD? Is there a special
recoding program I need to have? I have been downloading music to play on my
home computer, but would like to package some to take to work, etc.
TIA
~Rusty
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Todd H.
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject:
Re: Changing file formats |
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"Rustiferion" <no.reply@all.com> writes:
| Quote: | Hello
I'm new to this ng (a fact that will soon become obvious), and have a real
entry-level question, but that's the level I'm at, and I hope this is the
right place to ask:
What is the file format used by audio CD players, and what is the process of
recoding and burning .mp3 and .m4a tracks to a CD? Is there a special
recoding program I need to have? I have been downloading music to play on my
home computer, but would like to package some to take to work, etc.
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Audio CD's are encoded in a linear pulse code modulated (PCM) format.
They dont' really have a notion of "files" however. The most similar
file type is WAV. Back in the days of yore, the first step to
burning an mp3 to an audio format CD was to convert the mp3 to WAV for
this reason. However, that's a thing of the past since nearly every
cd burning program can use mp3's directly as sources for burning and
the conversion to PCM done on the fly without the user knowing about
it.
So, an audio CD however has its own format, and requires a burning
program that knows how to make an "audio CD". Luckily, these are
trivially easy to find these day.
Windows Media Player can be used to burn audio CD's directly from mp3.
iTunes can as well. As can musicmatch jukebox... or Roxio's Media
Creator... or....
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Rustiferion
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:56 am Post subject:
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Thank you, that's what I needed to know. Nero 6 came with my burner, but
I've only used it for data storage (Roxio is easier for that, IMHO). Maybe
I should open the Help file and go to school for a while...
I had been told that Apple was trying to restrict what you could do with the
downloads from their iTunes site by making .mp3 (and its next generation)
propietary. Or something like that...
~Rusty
"Todd H." <bmiawmb@toddh.net> wrote in message
news:84br0pgfdw.fsf@ripco.com...
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