A question on creating cd's please

[ChristinaS]

Re: A question on creating cd's please

Yes it was on cd. Mine has a big button on it and i can see the laser on
the bottom of the cd mount so it goes face down.

I tried it on a friends cd player (another boombox) and it did play but the
songs seemed to have skips in them. The first one would start over after
only a few seconds of play. Had to use the advance to go to another track.

Think i'll try another one.

savagcl

Wait, don't waste your blank cd's.

First try burning on a slower speed (say 8x or 12 x), as that would minimize the potential for skips. Also, if your drive has buffer underrun, it should be activated somehow.

Then there's the reference to Nero Dive Speed somewhere that may help stabilize your cd burner's performance. Something about it here (though it's for rippping) :http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...3874#post23874

[savagcl]

Re: A question on creating cd's please

Ok, when i know that i'm going to put some music onto a cd - In the converter, must the advanced options> quality be set for CD?

(I know, "stupid question" and common sense is screaming at me but if
its a first time, confirmation or denial helps.)

thanks,
savagcl

[xoas]

Re: A question on creating cd's please

Ok, when i know that i'm going to put some music onto a cd - In the converter, must the advanced options> quality be set for CD?

Where are you seeing this? If you access through opening dB CD Writer I don't think you have an option. And if you start by right-clicking audio files, selecting Convert To and Selecting Audio CD, again you don't have an option.

If you are talking about when you originally rip a file, the short answer is "No". I have had successful conversions of 128 kbs or 96 kbs mp3 files to cd. They are fine. Presumably they are less fine than if the files were ripped to a lossless format or to a higher mp3 bitrate or a better lossy format (I tend to prefer Musepack) but that should not make a difference. This certainly wouldn't explain the skippy quality of your burned cd's. Christina's tips are well advised. Also, it is very important in burning cd's that you don't start running programs in the background.

Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

[savagcl]

Re: A question on creating cd's please

The CD setting is in the dbpoweramp music converter under additional options>preset>quality.
A good selections of quality is there.

I dont have NERO, didnt like it at all.

For this last cd, i reduced the write speed to x2, can't test it until i find another cd player (my
next purchase).

I'm not ripping from another cd, what i do is find the song i want on a web site, normally RA/RM,
wma, wav and a few mp3's. Run it through the aux-converter to mp3 with settings of 192kbps,
44.1 KHz, 16, stereo.
This sounds good to me altho a little to much bass at times. Then, when i have enough music,
i'll create a cd.

Whats the difference between stereo and joint stereo or audio cd vs
mp3 (lame)????

I'm learning more every day (and at 65 years old, thats saying something! ). Guess thats why
i'm partial to the Rock and Roll of the fifties/sixties.

thanks for the feedback, guys and gals,
savagcl

PS: Will post here about the latest cd quality. Hopefully good news!

[xoas]

Re: A question on creating cd's please

The CD setting is in the dbpoweramp music converter under additional options>preset>quality. A good selections of quality is there.

These options apply to the files you have created through ripping or through auxilary input and store on your hard drive. When you go to burn an audio cd, you do not have this option since an audio cd has fixed parameters.

Stereo vs. joint stereo: Normal stereo has two discrete channels, each channel has full information for that track. With joint stereo one channel is encoded in full and the other channel, as I understand it, encodes only the information which is different from the first channel. When the track is played the decoder restores the information to the second channel. This process allows somewhat greater compression.

Audio CD vs. mp3 (lame): An audio cd has music in cd format and can be played on a regular cd player. A cd you buy in a store would be considered an audio cd. An audio cd has a fixed frequency (44.1 khz or 44100 hz), and two channels (stereo). A cd combines the music file with a cda file. The cda file is a small file which contains information for the cd player about the track (like where it starts, where it ends). A standard wav file is essentially the audio portion of the cd without the cda portion (since the computer doesn't need it). Mp3 is one of a number of methods for encoding music for computers. It has the advantage of allowing you to create smaller files than if you saved the music in wav format (an mp3 file at 192 kbs. is about 1/6th the size of the wav file it was created from). The downside is that some audio information will be lost in this process. This loss may or may not be noticeable depending upon your ear, your equipment and the amount of compression you apply. With mp3, and also with wma (WIndows Media Audio) format, you can find some cd players (for portable, standard, or car use) which can play these files, usually in the form of cd-r's with mp3 or wma tracks recorded on them. The advantage is that you can get much more music on a single disc. These discs will not play on a regular cd player but can be played on computers which have programs to read mp3 (or wma) files (which is most all pc computers nowadays).

For more information, visit Spoon's Audio Guide, a link for which you will find at the top of this page.

Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

[savagcl]

Re: A question on creating cd's please

WOW! Talk about a "Sound" education, no pun intended, but a good
lesson and good info to be aware of.

Thanks for the info, i'll go read that page.

Have a great one,
savagcl

[rebecca]

boombox

i think boomboxes have evolved over the years but i think in the end every one will be downloading off the internet ar using mp3 players or doing whatever the latest technology is.

[Spoon]

Re: boombox

As time goes on the need for lossy codecs (mp3, etc) will lower and the lossless will take over.