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- A data CD containing for example MP3 or WAV files will play happily on your computer but is unlikely to play in a standalone CD player or in-car CD player (note that some modern CD players will play data CDs).
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This article will show you how to copy mp3 files onto a CD that can be played on older or newer stereos or computers. Audio books contain a huge amount of data and therefore the most efficient way of getting this data onto as few discs as possible is to use a highly compressed (‘Lossy’) format.
- Overview
- Different discs you can burn
- What you'll need
- Burn an audio CD (or a data CD or DVD)
- Rip CDs
- Rip music from a CD
- Add or edit media info after ripping
- Change settings for ripping music
When you copy music, pictures, and videos from your PC to a blank CD or DVD, it's called "burning." When you copy music, pictures, and videos from a CD or DVD to your PC, it's called "ripping." You can use Windows Media Player to do both.
With Windows Media Player, you can burn three kinds of discs: audio CDs, data CDs, and data DVDs. To decide which kind of disc you should use, you'll need to think about what you want to copy, how much you're copying, and how you want to play the disc. This table helps you decide what type of disc to use.
Disc type
Description
Audio CD
You'll need two things to get started:
•A CD or DVD recorder drive (also known as a CD or DVD burner).
You can make a CD that stores about 80 minutes of music and will play in almost any CD player. Or you can make a data CD or DVD that can hold several hours of music (or many photos or short video clips) and will play in PCs. A data CD will work in CD players that support the file types copied to the disc.
Here's how to burn an audio CD:
1.Open Windows Media Player.
2.In the Player Library, select the Burn tab, select the Burn options button , and then select Audio CD or Data CD or DVD.
3.Insert a blank disc into your CD or DVD burner.
If your PC has more than one CD or DVD drive, select the drive you want to use.
When you rip music from a CD, you're copying songs from an audio CD to your PC. During the ripping process, the Player compresses each song and stores it on your drive as a Windows Media Audio (WMA), WAV, or MP3 file.
Ripped files are automatically saved to the Music folder, but you can change the location using the options on the Rip settings tab.
Make sure your PC is connected to the Internet if you want Windows Media Player to automatically get info about the songs, such as the name of the CD, the artist, and titles for the tracks being ripped.
1.Open Windows Media Player.
2.Insert an audio CD into the PC's CD drive.
3.Select the Rip CD button .
1.In the Player Library, search for the album or song you want to edit.
2.Right-click the album, and then select Find album info.
3.Do one of the following:
•If the correct album or artist info appears in the search results, select the correct entry, and then follow the instructions on the page to automatically update the album art and media info.
•If the correct album doesn't appear in the search results, follow the instructions on the page to search again using different search criteria, or to manually add the media info.
Notes:
The changes you make apply to new tracks that you rip. You can't use the Player to change the format or audio quality of a song you've already ripped.
1.Open Windows Media Player.
2.Insert a CD into your CD drive.
3.Maximize the Windows Media Player window so you can see all of the menu options, select Rip settings, and then select the setting you want to change.
Aug 20, 2006 · It may take several audio CDs to hold what you might currently have on a single data CD. The good news is that CD players are catching up. The ability to play MP3 files from data CDs has already appeared in car and home stereo CD players. And like a computer, these can play both audio and data CDs.
- MP3 CDs can be played in MP3 players and computer CD-ROMs (or any CD player that supports MP3 playback), but not in standard CD players. - MP3 CDs require enough hard drive free space to copy all queued files to a temporary folder before burning.
Oct 16, 2017 · MP3 and WMA make smaller files but discard audio (it often won't sound quite as good, especially if you make custom CDs). If you want to make MP3 files from your WAV files, this tutorial can show you how to do it with another free program called Audacity.
Oct 16, 2015 · A data CD containing for example MP3 or WAV files will play happily on your computer but is unlikely to play in a standalone CD player or in-car CD player (note that some modern CD players will play data CDs).
Jun 30, 2018 · I'm burning my own audio recordings on CDs and I want to be certain that the discs can be played in every CD player, not only in new models, which may even support plain MP3 files. Can I use a rewritable CD (CD-RW)?
