15.03.2003 13:51 UhrAllen Pruntyalprunty at mac.com:

> 
> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
> 
>> Hello all, I am making my first steps on importing and burning CDs in
>> my
>> iTunes. I have a question : Having only infantile knowledge about
>> this, do I
>> understand that the MP3 format will condense the files as I am
>> importing
>> them, because my preferences   indicate the MP3 format for import. ( It
>> seems to be the default setting, I did not do anything, I just
>> looked). Now
>> when I  burn a CD, it shows me in the preferences Audio CD, which I
>> interpret as meaning it goes out unto the CD in what I would consider a
>> regular unsqueezed format. Why I am asking : if I want to give this CD
>> to a
>> friend, I assume it should be in a regular format, since I do not know
>> whether the player this CD will be played on has this MP3 format. ( And
>> incidentally ; ewhat does MP3 stand for?)  A little clarificaton would
>> be
> 
> MP3 CD format is a special format where you can put literally almost
> 100 or more songs on one CD.  You have to have a stereo or CD player
> that has MP3 on it to play them.  They are few and far between.  My DVD
> player will play them.
> 
> It's best to burn in regular uncompressed CD, they are more useful when
> going from player to player.
> 
> Allen
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
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Allen, thanks for your answer. I am in the process of buying myself a new
CD-DVD player , Just waddling behind technology's  new offerings.  I shall
look into this - to me- new MP3 thing.
    Marta



| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.


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