OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

[Guest Smirnoff]

Getting myself in a complete mix up in deciding what option to use when

burning with iTunes.

I need to make the songs playable on most CD players, not just on my PC

and am using CD-R blanks.

Now the bit that's confusing me.

iTunes gives three options when burning (only the first two are relevant

to me):

Audio CD

MP3 CD

Data CD or DVD

The files I wish to burn are already MP3's.

So, should I just choose Audio CD?

Would selecting MP3 CD result in them being further compressed or is

that the correct option as they ARE MP3's?

The more I try to search for info, the more confused I get!

[Guest Graham Anderson]

RE: OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

 

If the CD player you want to play these CD's on supports mp3 CD's, use that.

You'll fit alot more songs on.

 

If the CD player you want to play these CD's on does not supports mp3 CD's

or you don't know if it supports mp3 CD's, use audio CD.

 

If you make it an audio CD, it will play on any CD player.

 

 

"Smirnoff" wrote:

> Getting myself in a complete mix up in deciding what option to use when

> burning with iTunes.

> I need to make the songs playable on most CD players, not just on my PC

> and am using CD-R blanks.

> Now the bit that's confusing me.

> iTunes gives three options when burning (only the first two are relevant

> to me):

> Audio CD

> MP3 CD

> Data CD or DVD

> The files I wish to burn are already MP3's.

> So, should I just choose Audio CD?

> Would selecting MP3 CD result in them being further compressed or is

> that the correct option as they ARE MP3's?

> The more I try to search for info, the more confused I get!

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest Smirnoff]

Re: OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

 

I take your point that I should ascertain whether a CD player supports

MP3 or not.

The point I was trying to clarify was that as the files are already

MP3's, would burning them as an Audio CD somehow uncompress/un-encode

them?

 

 

"Graham Anderson" <GrahamAnderson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

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> If the CD player you want to play these CD's on supports mp3 CD's, use

> that.

> You'll fit alot more songs on.

>

> If the CD player you want to play these CD's on does not supports mp3

> CD's

> or you don't know if it supports mp3 CD's, use audio CD.

>

> If you make it an audio CD, it will play on any CD player.

>

>

> "Smirnoff" wrote:

>

>> Getting myself in a complete mix up in deciding what option to use

>> when

>> burning with iTunes.

>> I need to make the songs playable on most CD players, not just on my

>> PC

>> and am using CD-R blanks.

>> Now the bit that's confusing me.

>> iTunes gives three options when burning (only the first two are

>> relevant

>> to me):

>> Audio CD

>> MP3 CD

>> Data CD or DVD

>> The files I wish to burn are already MP3's.

>> So, should I just choose Audio CD?

>> Would selecting MP3 CD result in them being further compressed or is

>> that the correct option as they ARE MP3's?

>> The more I try to search for info, the more confused I get!

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

[Guest David B.]

Re: OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

 

Converting an MP3 to a WAV to create an audio CD will result in the same

quality as the original MP3, you cannot increase the quality once it has

been compressed.

If you rip an audio CD to MP3, the quality is lost forever, the quality will

never be any better then the MP3 your working with.

 

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"Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

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>I take your point that I should ascertain whether a CD player supports MP3

>or not.

> The point I was trying to clarify was that as the files are already MP3's,

> would burning them as an Audio CD somehow uncompress/un-encode them?

>

[Guest Smirnoff]

Re: OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

 

Understood, thanks.

 

"David B." <brooks.dj@nomail.com> wrote in message

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> Converting an MP3 to a WAV to create an audio CD will result in the

> same quality as the original MP3, you cannot increase the quality once

> it has been compressed.

> If you rip an audio CD to MP3, the quality is lost forever, the

> quality will never be any better then the MP3 your working with.

>

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> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

> news:F74050E6-D2C9-43F0-BC5B-2AA033B0BB86@microsoft.com...

>>I take your point that I should ascertain whether a CD player supports

>>MP3 or not.

>> The point I was trying to clarify was that as the files are already

>> MP3's, would burning them as an Audio CD somehow uncompress/un-encode

>> them?

>>

>

[Guest Smirnoff]

Re: OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

 

 

 

"Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

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> Understood, thanks.

 

Sorry, meant to add more.

 

If burning existing MP3's as WAV Audio CD files does not improve the

quality, should I just burn them with the MP3 option, or does iTunes

attempt to compress them further?

Obviously, I can get more MP3's on a CD so this would seem the logical

option if no further encoding is performed.

 

>

> "David B." <brooks.dj@nomail.com> wrote in message

> news:#P2uVrpBIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> Converting an MP3 to a WAV to create an audio CD will result in the

>> same quality as the original MP3, you cannot increase the quality

>> once it has been compressed.

>> If you rip an audio CD to MP3, the quality is lost forever, the

>> quality will never be any better then the MP3 your working with.

>>

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>> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

>> news:F74050E6-D2C9-43F0-BC5B-2AA033B0BB86@microsoft.com...

>>>I take your point that I should ascertain whether a CD player

>>>supports MP3 or not.

>>> The point I was trying to clarify was that as the files are already

>>> MP3's, would burning them as an Audio CD somehow

>>> uncompress/un-encode them?

>>>

>>

>

[Guest David B.]

Re: OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

 

How you burn is pretty much decided by what you want the resulting CD to do.

If you want it to behave as a standard audio cd like you'd buy in the store

(does anyone still do that?) and have wide compatibility, then the audio CD

is what you want, but you will only be able to use around 20 songs per disk

(plus or minus 1 or 2). Many more MP3's will fit on a disk, but

compatibility is much lower concerning home and car cd players, they have to

support MP3 to be able to play these disks. Either way you do it, audio

quality will remain about the same.

 

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"Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

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>

>

> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

> news:187846A4-C1B7-42B9-99F4-C00E0338528D@microsoft.com...

>> Understood, thanks.

>

> Sorry, meant to add more.

>

> If burning existing MP3's as WAV Audio CD files does not improve the

> quality, should I just burn them with the MP3 option, or does iTunes

> attempt to compress them further?

> Obviously, I can get more MP3's on a CD so this would seem the logical

> option if no further encoding is performed.

>

[Guest Smirnoff]

Re: OT: iTunes burning, audio or MP3?

 

Thanks David, I DO understand what you have been saying. Just need to

get this clear:

 

Does burning existing MP3 files as an MP3 CD in iTunes compress them

further?

Or would I have to convert them to WAV files first and then burn the WAV

files as an MP3?

 

Just intrigued as to whether iTunes would further compress existing MP3

files if the MP3 CD burning option was chosen.

Hope I've explained it clearer now.

 

"David B." <brooks.dj@nomail.com> wrote in message

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> How you burn is pretty much decided by what you want the resulting CD

> to do.

> If you want it to behave as a standard audio cd like you'd buy in the

> store (does anyone still do that?) and have wide compatibility, then

> the audio CD is what you want, but you will only be able to use around

> 20 songs per disk (plus or minus 1 or 2). Many more MP3's will fit on

> a disk, but compatibility is much lower concerning home and car cd

> players, they have to support MP3 to be able to play these disks.

> Either way you do it, audio quality will remain about the same.

>

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> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

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>>

>>

>> "Smirnoff" <someone@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

>> news:187846A4-C1B7-42B9-99F4-C00E0338528D@microsoft.com...

>>> Understood, thanks.

>>

>> Sorry, meant to add more.

>>

>> If burning existing MP3's as WAV Audio CD files does not improve the

>> quality, should I just burn them with the MP3 option, or does iTunes

>> attempt to compress them further?

>> Obviously, I can get more MP3's on a CD so this would seem the

>> logical option if no further encoding is performed.

>>

>