Did you make an "MP3" disc?
Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DNA
(551 messages posted)
"I just burned 3 music CD's last night, boy was that fast. "
You may have directly copied MP3 or WMA files to the disc instead of making a proper
audio CD. Virtually all DVD players made in the last five years or so can
play MP3 files directly burned on CD, and many can play WMA files directly burned
on CD as well; but most "regular" audio CD players (especially home stereo
CD players!) will play only audio music CD's, not "MP3" or "WMA" CD's (which technically
are data CD-ROM's!)
When you say "Boy, was that fast", well MP3 and WMA files are compressed files that
are 1/5th to 1/20th the size of uncompressed WAV/CDA files. An 80 minute Audio CD
will be about 800 MB when ripped to the hard drive as WAV files, but as 128 kbps
MP3 files it would only be 80 MB!Obviously, 80 MB of content will take much less
time to burn to a CD than 700 MB (80 min. Audio CD = 800 MB of WAV files, but will
be 700 MB when written as an audio CD).
The best way to ensure that you are making an audio CD on an XP/Vista computer
(that does not have third-party disc burning software) is to burn the CD with Windows
Media Player. Dragging MP3 or WMA files in the regular XP/Vista disc burning staging
area will make direct copies of the MP3/WMA files to the disc, which will create
a Data CD, NOT an Audio (music) CD.
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- Written in response to:
- burn cd\dvd (JimmyK: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 4:55 am)
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