What kind of files do you use to make CD's?

I would like to burn some CD's and would like to have decent quality music files. MP3's don't seem like they would be the best file format only because they are so small in size that you have to lose some kind of quality. I don't have many cd's to waste on experimenting or I would take that route.

MP3? AIF? M4A? LSD?



Erik

[KtA]

I'd go down the mp3 route if your'e short of cd's,as long as your player recognises mp3's
A lot of the information lost when rendering to mp3 is inaudible anyway.

That's my humble opinion.

[James Oakwood]

Originally Posted by KtA

I'd go down the mp3 route if your'e short of cd's,as long as your player recognises mp3's
A lot of the information lost when rendering to mp3 is inaudible anyway.

That's my humble opinion.

I agree, the mp3 conversion removes info that the ear would struggle to hear so it's not much of a biggy. I'd use minimum of 192kbits per sec tho.

Andy

[Erik Jurado]

Thanks for the info!!!

[Disfunktional-DJs]

for CD you want 16 bit wav files... mp3s don't sound that great on cd if you really need to go the mp3 route no less than 320

[stiffjesus]

Originally Posted by Erik Jurado

MP3? AIF? M4A? LSD?

LSD

[James Oakwood]

Originally Posted by Disfunktional-DJs

for CD you want 16 bit wav files... mp3s don't sound that great on cd if you really need to go the mp3 route no less than 320

If you use 320kbits per second mp3 format, you'll get about 4 or 5 times the number of tracks compared to standard CD 16bit files. If you use 192kbits per second encoding you'll probably get 7 or 8 times the number of tracks.

It's up to you Erik, if you are happy with mp3 encoding you'll get more tracks. Crappy 128k mp3 format will get you 11 times as many tracks but even my ancient ears bleed at this shoddy rate.

INFO - standard cd 16 bit encoding produces an equivalent stream of 1411.2 kbits per second. Halve this for mono (705.6kbits per sec). Divide this by 44,100 (samples per second) and you'll get the magic 16 which is 16 bit sampling used on audio CDs.

[Disfunktional-DJs]

FFS

what kind of CD player are you planing on playing the CDs from?

192 - 320 you will get the same amount on but will sound better @ 320

if your making a data cd then 192 will get more tracks on

I'm going on that your making it to listen over a CD player

[Dave Fountain]

I remember having a right old problem putting music onto a blank CD and playing it in a car CD player, sounds simple doesn't it, well I must be the stupidest bastard on the planet because I could never get it to work in the van. Apparently some in car CD players just won't play anything that isn't a real CD, if you see what I mean. I could do it now, squirt some mp3's, Wavs, AIF's.... bugger wouldn't play, put my Tesco bought Best of Andy Williams and it kicks in straight away.

Wife did it, just squirted some off iTunes, that'll never work I scoffed, played first time in her Peugeot, that would have been mp3s. Let us all know how you got on.

I realise you wasn't talking about car CD players but I'm lonely, I like to chat.

[James Oakwood]

Originally Posted by Disfunktional-DJs

FFS

what kind of CD player are you planing on playing the CDs from?

192 - 320 you will get the same amount on but will sound better @ 320

if your making a data cd then 192 will get more tracks on

I'm going on that your making it to listen over a CD player

Ricky, if you are using mp3 format files on a CD then the CD has to be formatted as a data cd surely?

I'm confused about you saying "192 - 320 you will get the same amount on" - what does this mean? It seems to be at-odds with the line you followed this up with?

If I'm confused then Erik may be confused too.