how do I burn a cdr with lots of mp3s? my car cd player supports mp3 playback and it would be cool to burn 100+ songs in mp3 format so I can play that cd without changing discs?
It's very simple. You just burn a data CD instead of an audio CD, and the mp3's will be written as-is to the disk.
Burning a data disk does work. I prefer to use an app like Media Monkey that lets you create a mp3 music CD. These provide text supplied from the tag info. You pick what goes where. It will also flag tunes that have the same artist & title as a possible dupe. By only burning play lists, you can also keep track what is on what CD so you can make smart choices a year later when you want to make new disks or you can reburn a CD you have made before without the disk. Making a disk with 150 tunes +/- 25 tunes is a great deal of work. By keeping the play list, I preserve my work. You get lots of functionality for free. Even though the free version is speed crippled, the burn is still the least time consuming part of the process.
thanks for your replies.Just checked Media Monkey and the software seems confusing at first sight.Seems to me that 128kbs is the standard bitrate?How can I choose higher value?
Yes, it is the busiest of the top 10 audio apps. When you burn mp3s or even an audio CD you have no control over the quality. It is what the source is no more, no less. If you wish to convert a 128 BR to "lossless" you can do that by making an audio CD. Unfortunatly, as with ALL lossy formats (audio, digital pictures, digital videos) when you convert them to lossles they do not gain quality they actually lose quality. If you have a 128 BR mp3 burning as is will produce the best quality possible. If you are ripping you can set the to 320 if you like. That is over kill but most of us over kill quality to insure we don't miss out. 192 is concidered "perfect", for 30 year olds and up. As you age, you continually lose the ability to high pitch. Listening to loud music speeds up that process. Guys lose the ability to hear 18 khz by 20 gals by 25. 220 BR preserves 18 khz. 320 is only needed if your age is a single digit. That said, I rip at 320 or equivelent. MM is much better than light weights such as itunes and WMP but it is only a middle weight in the ripping dept. Picky persons in the know use either EAC (free) or dbPowerAmp (not free). I have never used MM to rip but I think the settings might be found in tools/options. That is where the setting are. I would stick to a Constant Bit Rate unless you install LAME. Then I use the VBR option for additional compression.
You can't change the bitrate of an existing MP3, you can only change that at the timing of ripping the CD. But most players play whatever they get, although older ones might have problems with variable bit rate. You should also consider following: some car radios read the ID3 tag to let you browse albums and artists. Other's (like mine) just use the folder name in which you stored in on the CD, then use the ID3 only for displaying the info on the screen. Make sure you also store your songs in folders then.
Not true, you can transcode and change the bitrate of an existing MP3..It won't improve/increase the quality, but your ears may not hear the difference in quality loss(test for yourself)..However it's not normally recommended to go from lossy to lossy..Best to start with original source, as stated...
The reason not to transcode lossy to anything is the quality loss. All lossy compressions whether is is music or graphics lose quality when you de-compress them. The more compression the more quality loss. During an edit or a transcode you have to decompress the information. The CBR mp3s do the best because they are compressed the least. Transcoding ruins 128 AAC WMA Ogg VBR mp3s etc. Before they are only distinguishable from lossless with good equipment and trained ears. After transcodiong, they sound like the radio. You might do better with audio capture but I don't touch lossy.
thanks for all help.....unfortunately it seems that my car cd player does not support mp3 cds after all.I was certain it did.....
