How do I make a lossless CD using Nero

[Ken90630]

Hey, All,

I want to make a 'greatest hits' compilation CD as a gift for a friend. I have a high quality Asus DVD-RW drive and Nero burning software. I'll be using tracks from 4 different CDs to make the single CD compilation.

Do I need an FLAC plug-in to make this happen, or can I burn the source CDs' tracks directly to the destination CD on the fly without saving them to the hard drive first? When I do a trial run, it looks like Nero is letting me add tracks from the source CDs, and when I've got them all added and click "Burn" it tells me to insert the appropriate source CDs as I go along. To me, that seems like I'm burning on the fly and should therefore be getting a lossless result.

Is this right, or is Nero automatically employing lossy compression when I rip from the source CDs, thus resulting in lossy files that then get burned to the destination CD? In which case, I'd need the FLAC plug-in ....

Advice would be appreciated.

 

[mmntech]

You can burn FLAC songs to CDs but they'll only be playable in a computer or device that supports FLAC. Rip your songs to WAVs. You've got 80min to work with on a CD-R. The songs will be exact copies of the originals and you can play it in any CD player.

 

[Ken90630]

You can burn FLAC songs to CDs but they'll only be playable in a computer or device that supports FLAC. Rip your songs to WAVs. You've got 80min to work with on a CD-R. The songs will be exact copies of the originals and you can play it in any CD player.

Thanks for the reply. So you're saying rip the tracks as .wav files to my hard drive, then burn those .wav files to the destination CD using Nero? And Nero won't employ compression during the burning process?

 

[Brainonska511]

Thanks for the reply. So you're saying rip the tracks as .wav files to my hard drive, then burn those .wav files to the destination CD using Nero? And Nero won't employ compression during the burning process?

Rip the files to .wav and then choose to make an audio CD in Nero. It'll burn it in such a way that is compatible with CD players.

 

[JoeBleed]

Just a suggestion, not sure if you can do this with nero or not, but with the older roxio software when you made an audio cd with different tracks from other disks, you could pop in the disk you wanted to pull from, select the tracks you wanted, put in the next disk and so on until you filled up the audio cd project. When when you went to burn it, it would ask you to reinsert the disks in the right order so it could rip them. This was how it would do it, i believe it used a wav format unless it had something else. But it handled it all on its own.

This was version 4 or 5 that i used. I haven't done this in a while so i'm not sure what their current version or nero offers.

 

[jtvang125]

It will have to rip them first before the burn because it can't just stop the burning process for each new song. To be a compatible Audio CD it has to burn the whole CD in one pass.

What it's probably going to do is prompt you to reinsert the original CD, rip the track you want, repeat until all tracks are ripped and then start the burning process.

 

[JoeBleed]

yes, that is the way i remember it. It ripes and temporally stores them then burns the disk.

 

[wirednuts]

i would look into CDex for ripping cd's. then use whatever you want to burn. but i do suggest CDBurnerXP. makes things very uncomplicated.