Writing audio CDs from mp3?
Posted by: Paul Hutchings on 14 June 2004
I've been converting mp3 files to wav files prior to burning to CDR - arguable as to whether or not it's necessary but it's the way I do it.
I tend to use razorlame which is just a front end to the lame encoder/decoder, this outputs a .wav file, I then use a command line defragger called "contig" from www.sysinternals.com to make sure the files are contiguous, then I burn at either 4x or 8x using exactaudiocopy.
I use good media (taiyo yuden or kodak currently) as that seems like common sense, but what I'm curious about is whether anyone's ever taken the time to see if doing things a little more "thoroughly" actually results in a better CD than simply firing up Nero or something and dragging across the mp3 files and doing everything on the fly?
I'd say for how long it takes per CD to do what I've outlined above I'll probably keep doing it, but I suppose in a moment of curiosity having read an article from a chap who's insistent that black CDRs are "better" than any other dyes I wondered what other people do, and why?
Paul
I tend to use razorlame which is just a front end to the lame encoder/decoder, this outputs a .wav file, I then use a command line defragger called "contig" from www.sysinternals.com to make sure the files are contiguous, then I burn at either 4x or 8x using exactaudiocopy.
I use good media (taiyo yuden or kodak currently) as that seems like common sense, but what I'm curious about is whether anyone's ever taken the time to see if doing things a little more "thoroughly" actually results in a better CD than simply firing up Nero or something and dragging across the mp3 files and doing everything on the fly?
I'd say for how long it takes per CD to do what I've outlined above I'll probably keep doing it, but I suppose in a moment of curiosity having read an article from a chap who's insistent that black CDRs are "better" than any other dyes I wondered what other people do, and why?
Paul