Mp3 to audio cd. What program can I use?

[Hav2win]

What program can I use to convert my mp3s to regular cd audio files? how long will it take? WIll it have the same sound quality as if it was on a audio cd?

 

[LostBoy]

Use Nero 5 or EZ-CD 4 and you don't have to convert them, it's just drag and drop. The software does it for you. If you're using EZ-CD 3.5 or something you can use Winamp (as well as others) to convert them to .wav files and then burn those.

 

[Hav2win]

so using one of those programs it will be ready to play in a cd player?

 

[Impact55]

Yes Nero makes it ready for cd-players.

 

[Workin']

But of course it will sound the same as when it was an mp3. In other words, turing an mp3 into the right format for an audio CD will not improve the sound quality.

 

[Anon19]

i use the adaptec software that came with my cd-r

 

[AMB]

I'd use Nero, or a program from here

 

[hausdave]

music match jukebox does wonderful work in this area

 

[smp]

yeah.. the sound quality remains the same as the original MP3.. but you can play it in a cd player.. I just did a search at download.com.. just type in "mp3 to wave" you'll get some pretty good looking freeware apps.. check it out.. I've used a couple of these.. they work great.

 

[SUOrangeman]

WinAmp has a DiskWriter plugin that ships with the installer itself to provide MP3-to-WAV functionality.

-SUO

 

[Maximus1]

Use the newest version of Nero (5.0.3.8), I wouldn't even screw around with anything else. I have used most of the other programs mentioned, but Nero is one of the best burning programs out there and it will do everything for you in one program. Just drag and drop and burn.

 

[thorin]

SUO wav is not cd audio although it can be written as so just like mp3s can be.

If you convert an mp3 to wav or cda then it will be the same quality as the mp3, generally a small amount of data is lost in converting CDA to mp3 in the first place however converting it back there won't be any loss.

NERO is your best bet, it converts mp3 to CDA on the fly while you are burning.

Thorin

 

[mikee]

You could also use feurio. Feurio is free for download and use. It's a great audio burning program.

 

[Workin']

<< wav is not cd audio although it can be written as so just like mp3s can be. >>

Not to be picky but the data part of CD audio IS IDENTICAL to a .wav file. Both are Pulse-Code Modulated (PCM) digital data. No data coversion is required to write a .wav as a .cda. Only the file header is different (and of course CD audio discs have a different way of organizing the data on the disc, but that's a function of the CD standard, not .wav vs. mp3). MP3 involves an extensive conversion of the data. Which leads to...

<< generally a small amount of data is lost in converting CDA to mp3 >>

More like a huge amount of data is lost. An mp3 retains only about 12-15% of the original data. The rest is discarded according to the rules established by the mp3 encoding algorithm.

So, when you convert the mp3 to .wav, even though the file size is 12-15 times larger, you are still missing just as much data.

 

[Wallysaurus]

Hav2win5,
Music Match Jukebox does what you want to do well. Just my $.02.