Burning Music to CD's....help

[froggg]

burning mp3's as a data disc would only play if your player was an mp3 player(and maybe not then)-you need to burn mp3's as an audio disc to play as requested by mshardeman quote I want to burn each album to a CD that can be played in any car or home stereo unquote

[nfpgasmask]

burning mp3's as a data disc would only play if your player was an mp3 player(and maybe not then)-you need to burn mp3's as an audio disc to play as requested by mshardeman quote I want to burn each album to a CD that can be played in any car or home stereo unquote

Right, but what programs like Nero will do when you want to burn MP3s to a CD and make them work like a traditional CD, is do the conversion to wav or aiff for you behind the scenes. The problem with that, is you are taking a compressed mp3 file, and then converting it back to wav, and all the lossyness goes with it. If you record a 44kHz stereo .wav file from the original source, you absolutely DO NOT WANT to convert that file to mp3 first, and then use a program like Nero to make a "audio CD" for you, because all its doing is converting that same file, that you just compressed, right back to wav. You cannot reverse a compressed file back to the original uncompressed format. Once the digital information is lost, its lost. Now all that said, it just depends on how much you care about your music. But considering the fact that Mark is going through all of this to preserve some vinyl, why compress the data down before making an audio CD?

Bart

[MSHardeman]

Exactly guys. This little project is actually for my Dads birthday. I am taking all of his old vinyl records and putting them on an iPod for him in mp3 format, but I am also going to burn each album to CD so he can play them in his car. I will ALSO burn an mp3 CD for him to have as a backup, plus I think his car plays mp3 CD's. The program that I used to record the vinyl created WAV files so I will use those to burn the individual CD's. I will then make a copy of the WAV files and compress those into mp3 to put on the iPod and the mp3 CD's.

This has become quite the project, but it's been fun listening to all of his old LP's. They have been bringing back memories that where buried in the dark recesses of my mind.

Thanks for everyone's help, and keep the suggestions coming.

Mark