I've used many machines and not seen any which needed the features touted in
EAC. I've done audiobooks and music cds both from Win98 on and I gues I've
been lucky. Check out the equipment before you worry about software. I
have seen equipment go bad.
- Original Message -
From: Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 8:04 AM
Subject: RE: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning
results?
Thanks everyone for your help!
Dane, since you've been supplying us with quite a few helpful tutorials, may
I ask, if you happen to have written up something on the setting up of EAC?
I'd appreciate any help since I never really understood how to use that
program propperly, which is why I got back to CDEx and Nero.
Thanks in advance and take care,
Alexandra
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Humberto
Rodriguez
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 4:16 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning
results?
Hello Alexandra:
Older CD players normally do not play MP3 files, newer ones do. CDs have
large files with the file extension .cda and when you copy them with Exact
Copy, they are copied to the blank CD in the same format. In format .cda, a
song normally occupies over 30 Megs, sometimes 50 Megs or higher, so only
15 or 20 songs fit in a CD, for it has a capacity of 700Megs.
When we use a program to rip songs from the CD, that normally refers to
converting them to a different format. Format can be lossless as is the
case of for instance, the files with extension .wav, which retain the same
quality and also occupy lots of room. There are many audio file formats,
including some less known that are also losseless and occupy about half the
room of a .wav, but there is always the trade-off of where to play it.
Normally when you rip songs from a CD, you convert them to the MP3 format,
that is with file extensions .mp3. The MP3 files occupy much less space and
thus you can fit many more in a CD, perhaps 100 or more songs in a single CD
with a 700 Megs capacity.
MP3 files also come in different qualities, depending on bitrate and sample
rate. Most people say the CD quality is 128K bitrate and 44100 sample
rate, but while the sound approaches the quality of a .cda it is not quite
the same. It is a trade-off, but MP3 files are very common and play in all
modern CD players. You could use higher bitrates, up to 320K and they will
sound a little better still, with larger file size.
In summary, when you copy or rip a CD, you must select Audio Cd or
Data CD and the former refers to .cda files, the latter to the format of
your choice, MP3 being the most common.
Now, if you want to rip CDs into Data Cds in formats such as .wav or .mp3,
the simplest program to do it is called Singe. It will do either CDs or
DVDs automatically, it determines what it is from its size,and it is very
easy to select the files to put in it and burnthem. It is available from
the Jaws Users website, I believe.
Regards,
Humberto
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra
Grünauer
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 6:16 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning results?
Hi List,
I hope someone can help me how to solve this problem.
I'm using the same CD-DVD-Burner on two different windows 7 machines with
Nero Burning Rom to burn audio CDs.
With one burner the CDs are fine, with the other the results won't play on
many audio CD players, admittedly, they're older models, but from the one PC
they play fine, from the other they don't.
I'd appreciate any ideas concerning that problem.
Thanks in advance.
Take care
Alexandra
