Digital music: Changing MP3's File Format?
Changing MP3's File Format?
by Z_Speight - 9/3/06 2:17 PMHi,
I'm new here, so please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong area.
I often download music online which happen to be in mp3 format. I would like to convert it to a format--onto cd--to be play on all cd players. What file format do I change it to? The key is that it can play on most cd players--even those that don't play mp3 and wma. Thanks
Zac
Mp3 to audio CD
by slaha11 - 9/3/06 2:43 PM In reply to: Changing MP3's File Format? by Z_SpeightHi,
You need to create standard Audio CD, which can then be played in any standard old CD player.
Use a CD burning software like Nero (www.nero.com) and then select the option of creating an audio CD. Then add all your downloaded audio CDs, and they will automatically be converted to audio CD format by Nero.
Remember that an audio CD can only contain some 10-15 songs compared to 100s of MP3 music in a data CD! Thats the trade off.
Hope this helps.
Wave is the key
by royalnewjersey - 9/3/06 2:43 PM In reply to: Changing MP3's File Format? by Z_SpeightTurn it into a "wav" file. should be extention "song.wav" The easiest way to do this, is to put all the songs you want into a program like windows media player, real player, even itunes. then burn a cd from that program and they will usually automatically convert it for you.
-Aaron
MP3 issues
by Texas Tunesmith - 9/3/06 3:10 PM In reply to: Changing MP3's File Format? by Z_SpeightI convert to riff wave files. I hope that works for you.
george
Changing MP# format
by dantheman5681 - 9/3/06 3:26 PM In reply to: Changing MP3's File Format? by Z_SpeightConvert it to a .wav all CD players that i know of play that. 
Musicmatch & more
by keithwagner - 9/5/06 12:07 PM In reply to: Changing MP3's File Format? by Z_SpeightMost cd writing programs convert mp3 files to wave and burn them on a cd. Musicmatch will and Roxio will and they play on any cd player. It is in their standard burning program.
Old CD formats
by zach3rd - 1/6/07 11:43 AM In reply to: Musicmatch & more by keithwagnerI have tried making a CD with both Nero and Musicmatch Jukebox, and neither will work in my CD player. (They work fine in my car CD player, which is much newer of course.) I will grant you that I bought that CD player in about 1986, when nobody had heard about mp3 or wav formats.
I was able once, a couple of years ago, on a different computer and with different software, to make CDs that would play on my CD machine. But I don't remember how I did it.
Anyone have a clue?
Thanks
Did you try
by PudgyOne - 1/6/07 3:12 PM In reply to: Old CD formats by zach3rdburning them in the audio format?
Rick
Problem solved, lesson learned
by zach3rd - 1/6/07 6:13 PM In reply to: Did you try by PudgyOneYes, I had tried the audio CD. But, with Nero I think there are more options. Looking somewhere else on the web I found a clue. There are two modes: track-at-once and disk-at-once. The first works, the second does not, but the second is the default in Nero. I found how to change that (not immediately apparent). Before I was using Roxio, which I still think I prefer, where the choice of the two is more obvious, but Nero was included on my new computer, so for the moment that is what I am using.
When I changed to track-at-once, the CD worked fine in my prehistoric JVC CD player. And, by the way, the quality was perfect.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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