Ok here's my question. I'm trying to burn some music and my cd deck in my car handles digital audio and mp3. I've heard that you can get lots of music on digital audio. So, my question is i need a digital audio converter and program to burn. help
What they mean by "digital audio" is file-based compression like MP3 or WAV. Use Exact Audio Copy to rip your CDs, if that's what you're asking. I STRONGLY suggest making WAV files (use use a lossless compression, like FLAC) to archive your music. THEN convert everything to MP3. The reason behind this is that if you do what a lot, if not most, of people are doing and convert your music collection to MP3, then, a couple years down the road when MP3 becomes obsolete, you will have to convert your MP3s to something else. The problem is, MP3 is a lossy format with degraded sound quality. That's bad enough, but if you convert into another compressed format, then any quality loss and compromises in sound quality will be magnified. It's kind of like making a copy of a copy of a copy of a videotape - if you've ever done it, it looks like crap, no matter how good the source material. If your originals are uncompressed (or losslessly compressed i.e. they can be restored to original) then you will not lose quality. At any rate, once you've ripped your music and converted to MP3 (use 320kbps for best quality, though it still is not as good as the original) then all you have to do is burn a CD with Nero. Just use the CD-ROM compilation type (DO NOT make an audio CD, that is what you are converting from). If your sounds system supports MP3s on a DVD, then that's even better, because you can fit much more onto one disc.
Digital audio means many different things. It means many different file formats codecs and bit rates etc. Way too much to go into here. If you car deck plays MP3's you can burn an MP3 disc that you will be able to fit literally over 100+ songs onto. CD audio is uncompressed PCM digital audio and each CD's music is normally about 600-700MBs (cds hold 700mb). The bit rate is 1500+ KB/s. You can "RIP" (Compress) cds (reduce their file size and sound quality) to MP3 files with Media player to your PC's hard rive. Even at the highest MP3 settings of 320 KB/s you would be able to fit 4-5 times as many songs onto a CD. You DO DEFINITELY sacrifice sound quality. You will then need a program like NERO to burn the MP3's to a CD.
BTW, that's the best tag line I have seen here yet. "Don't be a sucker - don't buy Blu-Ray or HD-DVD!"
