Burning mp3's to CD in mp3 format

[kregger]

Could somebody tell me if a CD plays as well if mp3's are burned onto a CD in mp3 format instead of contverting it to CD format? I was trying to burn some songs and chose too many and noticed that if I didn't have Matchmusic convert them, the CD would hold lots more music. But does it play as well?

 

[WW]

only if the cd (or dvd) player has mp3 capabilities....otherwise it won't play at all.

 

[kregger]

And it will sound like a regularly recorded CD? I'll be able to clear our some of the CD's cluttering my desk! WooHoo!
Thanks for your reply.

 

[Workin']

And it will sound like a regularly recorded CD?

No, it will sound like the mp3's you made it from. So if the mp3's sound crappy, so will the CD.

 

[randypj]

kregger,

please excuse Workin'.....he's had a tuff day.

His point is that if you have low quality encoded mp3s, then you will notice the low quality when you convert them to regular audio cd format. On my system, I've compared as below, and cannot tell the diff between 256 bit and the original .wav file. But, 128bit sounded dead....lifeless.

1. Read the FAQ's in Workin's sig.
2. Use EAC to rip and LAME/RazorLAME to encode.
3. Don't sacrifice quality.....i.e., don't encode at 128bit. Hard drives and cd-rs are cheap. So what, if it takes up more space for better quality.
4. If you want to test the encoding quality difference, do what I did:

From a new music cd, save the same track as .wav, encode the track at 128, encode the track at 256 (or whatever high bitrate you might want to use). Then, unencode the 128 and 256 track, and burn each of the 3 files to a cd as regular audio cd files. Then, listen to them all on a GOOD audio system. You'll hear the diff, but should hear no diff with .wav and 256bit.

I plan on ripping all my audio to mp3 format. ~1K cds, 500 LPs, and 80 open reel tapes. I'll run all my music from my hard drive.
--Randy