Computer newbies forum: Burn MP3s to CD-R using WMP 10

If you are playing it in regular cd players and not on your computer, you will want to burn an audio cd. Such a cd contains music that is uncompressed (you won't be getting better quality though). Because they are uncompressed, they can only hold about 80 minutes of music.

If you are burning an mp3 cd, you are maintaining the compression, so you can fit more on the cd - 700 mb. However, you can only play these cds on your computer or on certain cd players that can play mp3s.

You'll still have plenty of room left on the cd-r. You'll be barely using up 10% of the available capacity of the 700 mb cd-r. You only have to worry about the minutes if you are burning a regular audio cd. You can go either way.

But I didn't think Windows Media Player could burn mp3 cds, but I see Bob already addressed that issue with his link. Anyway, I use iTunes and it burns mp3 cds just fine but I don't do it often because I don't have an mp3 cd player. (I have an iPod, using an fm transmitter for my car)

I think you have to make sure you finalize the cd - by finalizing, you close the cd so that you can't add anything else to it and is what makes it playable on non-computers. You definitely have to finalize if you're making a regular audio cd.

If you're making an mp3 cd, depending on individual song size (in mb), you could fit up to 200 or more songs on one cd. So, you might want to start taking your purchased cds and rip them to your computer and then make a nice, long mix cd full of mp3s. If you're just going to do the 16, you might as well just make a regular audio cd - you should have enough room since those songs take up a little over an hour.

Kbps refers to bitrate. The higher the bitrate, the less compression, and the higher the audio quality as well as file size. Audio quality also depends on source. (purchased audio cd vs. audio cd that a friend makes from his mp3s) I've never really paid that much attention to burn speed. I usually go for the fastest rate possible (it's a default in iTunes) and I've never had problems. I suppose if there is a problem with the cd, then you would go to a slower speed.

Please start a new thread in this forum and when doing so, make sure to give us more information about your computer.. The operating system, version of iTunes, and any other information that might help us.

In the meantime, since the problem seems to occur at the 5th song, maybe that file is corrupted.. Try removing that particular song and create the CD using all the other songs.

Hope this helps.

Grif

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=235874&messageID=2415688

I also dug up why WMP 10 isn't usable for this but note a free tool to do this proper.

Bob