Car and store bought cd players are always and only compatible with WAV. There are files on a CD easily seen by exploring it in the computer. The files are basically WAV files. There is additional information that is not saved as files your computer can see that are specified by the standards for CDs.
The standard states that a CD player must recognize this information and play the data files per the information in it. After MP3s and other music formats came out, some CD player makers decided to give them the intelligence to recognize data CDs and play the files. This is in addition to their ability to play CDs that were made to the music CD standards. I enjoyed the article and the comments, they were very informative as far as pointing me in the right direction for further investigation.
I think it would be helpful if you could update your response to this question with more information:. You provide a good description of the type of raw, uncompressed music data on commercial CDs. When you open a commercial music CD, it lists track numbers as. You could explain that these. Some commenters have suggested that tracks on commercial music CDs are in. The hardware, software and disk media have to be compatible before you can burn a CD that will play on any CD player.
For example, you might be able to find commercial music CDs with around 20 songs minutes of play recorded as digital Audio CD data with associated. With the proper harware and software, you can burn about the same amount of music in a lossless computer audio format.
If you burn a compressed audio format file i. MP3 , or secure adapters for portable MP3 players to your various home and auto audio systems. All this technical stuff gives me a headache. All I need to know is which audio file format will play on a cd player and a car player. Which audio file formats should I have on the CDs after burning the hard disk files.
I note your comments about letting the burning software do the job. I use Nero. I produced audio CDs for my car as above but still NoGo. My interest was converting vinyl to cd. The wav format would not play on the home cd player or the car cd player. I then used a converter that converted, almost instantly, the. This worked although I needed to increase the volume level in the car CD player. So simple even I can do it. Thanks Leo……….
When converting vinyl to. Seriously people? Thanks Leo for the information. Please email me with suggestions. Thank You Very Much! As an audio Engineer Im gonna answer the simple question with a simple answer. Keep in mind the MP3 file format is compressed and is very small and if you decide to go this route you will get a poor quality audio sound. If you want to listen to your favorite music the way was intended with a Killer quality sound, do what I do.
Format disc. I adjust the burner settings to burn highest bit possible for wav disc and I adjust it to burn as slow as possible. This will give you the best possible sound quality.. The correct answer is WAV. It stands for free lossless audio compression. The name says it it all. Not as small as. It may or may not work on your player. The correct format he needs to record in is called WAV.
This is incorrect. They uncompressed raw audio. Older, pure-audio players that know nothing about computer file formats will not play WAV files — or any other. I got music to play on my Audi Concert stereo, what I did was reformat all my music files. I used a free burning program called BURN. OK you all are going to laugh at me!!! This is one product where it pays to buy better quality.
So I am asking please for some general info. I have no other knowledge on how to do this. Thank you for your help. I can wait until you have quit laughing!!! I too have struggled with all of the above and what has worked for me is: 1. Save your new digital files to a target folder. My car is a model and it does just fine with my MP3 selections.
Seek elsewhere for info if that is your case. I am trying to rip and burn audio CDs for shut-ins. Neither one seems to work consistently for these elderly ladies who are using old cd players. It has the answer: you need to use special software that can write audio CDs, not data CDs.
Some might if they were specifically designed to play. Search Ask Leo! They contain raw, uncompressed data, in a very fixed format …. I'll see you there! Slow Computer? Sadly, the messages are often cryptic and inconsistent, and the result is a mess. Why am I getting Amazon notifications for someone else?
For example, they cannot tell who or where you are. How much they can tell varies a great deal. Can my backup programs restore my settings to a new machine? For the most stable upgrade you'll want to work from scratch.
Hi, Can anyone tell me what format apart from the. I've been burned pun intended far too many times to ever use their crap product again, I now avoid Memorex like the plague. For me the amount of honest, truthful and factual information on anything DVD or CD related on that site is unparalleled.
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What are the best available? I have a question. The hubs are NOT frosty and the silver part of the disk goes closer to the center of the hub. The large alphanumberic code pressed on the edge of the hole is similar in length and nomenclature and the small code pressed at the edge of the dye, the two digits followed by six in tiny print look the of a similar nomenclature and font.
The six tiny digits of the two and then six start with two letters as does the large one on the edge of the hole. My Sony made in Japan Music CD-R discs I got a cople of years ago have the same type codes but the hub is frosty and the aluminum substrate does not go quite as far toward the hub.
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