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date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:10:01 -0700,
group: microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.mac
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Re: how burn audio file to CD on Mac?
Hi Corentin,
Ended up trying Switch freeware, that someone else recommended. Converted
WMA files to MP3 and was able to put files on iTunes and on my iPod. Only
thing not working is listening to it on a CD I burned. Maybe my '05 car CD
player doesn't read MP3.
Any suggestions for a format it might read, since Switch had many format
options?
Thanks for your help,
Sally
""Corentin Cras-Méneur"" wrote:
> Sally P wrote:
>
> > Coretin,
> >
> > Thanks for taking time to post a suggestion. I tried downloading the
> > converter you recommended but was not able to get it to work. It kept
> > freezing up and didn't keep my settings for English, etc.
>
>
> I haven't tried this applciation myself. I just did a quick Google
> search and this one came up (and was free).
> There are plenty other apps for that out there (but usually shareware).
> AudialHub is the first one that comes to my mind (though I'm not sure it
> supports WMA - you'll have to check).
>
> > I'd be willing to try again but can you tell me the format I should convert
> > it into so that iTunes can read it? MP3?
>
> iTunes supports MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, FLAK
>
> AIFF is not lossy at all and will be an easy format to then burn a CD.
> The files end up huge though.
> FLAK is good too, but few applciations support it and it will require a
> conversion for CD burning (iTunes does it for you).
>
> MP3 and AAC are a lot more compact, but both have to compress the data
> and there is some loss of quality there (less with AAC than MP3). You
> have to chose the compression rate (in term of how much data is used to
> encode one second of audio). Needless to say that the higher compression
> (lower bitrate) also produces the lowest quality.
>
>
> Corentin
>
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date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:13:01 -0700
author: Sally P
Re: how burn audio file to CD on Mac?
Sally P wrote:
> Hi Corentin,
Hi Sally,
> Ended up trying Switch freeware, that someone else recommended. Converted
> WMA files to MP3 and was able to put files on iTunes and on my iPod.
Switch is a pretty good application.
> Only
> thing not working is listening to it on a CD I burned. Maybe my '05 car CD
> player doesn't read MP3.
Few players do so that's probably the case.
> Any suggestions for a format it might read, since Switch had many
format
> options?
Well that's why I mentioned AIFF and importing in iTunes in my previous
post.
You made a data-CD with MP3 files on it. OK for computers, but not most
CD players.
If you import the songs in iTunes and place them in a playlist, you will
be able to burn the playlist as an audio CD (playable in any CD player).
Now about formats..... AIFF is huge, but keeps 100% of the quality of
the original file. It is also the format used by audio CDs. That could
be an option (if you have tons of hard drive space and quality is
critical).
Otherwhise, I would use AAC with a good bitrate (192 should be enough,
but you can go higher). This is compressed, looses a bit of information,
but at high bitrates hardly *anyone* can hear the difference, especially
in a car with the ambient noise :->
No matter what format you choose, iTunes will take care of converting it
on the fly as it burns the CD.
Corentin
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date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:25:26 -0500
author: Corentin ()
Re: how burn audio file to CD on Mac?
Coretin,
Many thanks for all your pointers. Invaluable and saving me from more hours
of aggravation.
Yesterday, I burned the CD from the burn folder that had the files converted
into MP3. Will try burning directly from iTunes, to see if that does the
trick. That was going to be my next attempt anyhow.
Merci bien,
Sally
""Corentin Cras-Méneur"" wrote:
> Sally P wrote:
>
> > Hi Corentin,
>
> Hi Sally,
>
> > Ended up trying Switch freeware, that someone else recommended. Converted
> > WMA files to MP3 and was able to put files on iTunes and on my iPod.
>
> Switch is a pretty good application.
>
> > Only
> > thing not working is listening to it on a CD I burned. Maybe my '05 car CD
> > player doesn't read MP3.
>
> Few players do so that's probably the case.
>
> > Any suggestions for a format it might read, since Switch had many
> format
> > options?
>
> Well that's why I mentioned AIFF and importing in iTunes in my previous
> post.
> You made a data-CD with MP3 files on it. OK for computers, but not most
> CD players.
> If you import the songs in iTunes and place them in a playlist, you will
> be able to burn the playlist as an audio CD (playable in any CD player).
>
> Now about formats..... AIFF is huge, but keeps 100% of the quality of
> the original file. It is also the format used by audio CDs. That could
> be an option (if you have tons of hard drive space and quality is
> critical).
> Otherwhise, I would use AAC with a good bitrate (192 should be enough,
> but you can go higher). This is compressed, looses a bit of information,
> but at high bitrates hardly *anyone* can hear the difference, especially
> in a car with the ambient noise :->
>
> No matter what format you choose, iTunes will take care of converting it
> on the fly as it burns the CD.
>
> Corentin
>
>
> --
> --- Mac:MS MVP http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ ---
> http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS
> Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire
>
date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:57:02 -0700
author: Sally P
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