Converting MP3 music to good old fashioned CD

[Pommygranite]

Are there any good ways, or free programs i can get to convert MP3 tunes to normal CD tunes so my girlfriend can play them in her car?

[Alex]

Create a playlist in Windows Media Player. Select Burn. Job done.

[Digger]

From what little I understand you need some decoding s/w to convert the mp3's to 16Bit 44.1kHz wav files.

[Dracoro]

Media player will do it, iTunes will do it, no doubt many other will too.

What music software do you normally use?

[V8mate]

Nero does it too. Most burning apps convert mp3 to CD.

[dibbly_dobbler]

Not meaning to insult anybody's intelligence but make sure you have the correct type of disk (ie Audio ) when you do the burning...

[V8mate]

dibbly_dobbler said:

Not meaning to insult anybody's intelligence but make sure you have the correct type of disk (ie Audio ) when you do the burning...

A CD-R is a CD-R is a CD-R

[sadako]

dibbly_dobbler said:

Not meaning to insult anybody's intelligence but make sure you have the correct type of disk (ie Audio ) when you do the burning...

It won't make a difference if you are doing it on a computer. Some home audio CD recorders would only record onto the audio discs in the past but computer CD burners will burn audio to a data disc fine. There is no difference in the discs themselves aside from a flag in the CD's ID track. This is solely to may you pay for a "professional" home audio CD recorder that will ignore the flag. The audio discs are supposed to have a surcharge to pay for the licence to use the audio as a copy but the BPI still moan about people burning copies anyway regardless of what discs they use.

[Ultuous]

I think Dibbly's point may have been more one of making sure you select the audio option in whatever software you're using when burning the MP3s to CD - if you simply burn the MP3's to CD as 'data', they're only going to play back on MP3 compatible players...

It's a point worthy of note (as is not wasting moolah on 'Audio' CD-Rs), as it could save a lot of head-scratching (and lack of music for the car!) further down the line!

Edited by Ultuous on Saturday 11th April 14:15