Burning Question

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OK at the risk of sounding completley stupid I have another question. When I mix down I have a choice of what formats I want to burn in (wave) ect. What format do I use if I want my son to be able to play it on a regular CD player? I use the computer for everything so my files are MP3 but he wants to be able to play them on his portable CD player. PLease can anyone help?
 
The vast majority of CD players will play .wav files just fine. Just make sure they are at 44.1khz/16 bit.
 
You want to mix down from Sonar to a RIFF Wave file. From there, you will need to use CD burning software (you probably got something that came packaged with your CD burner). Use that to burn the wave files to an Audio CD.

I would not recommending burning them to a data CD as a wave file. It may play that way in some of the newer CD players, but will not be universally playable. Safest bet is an audio CD.
 
In the end it will be a .cda file ont the CD.

Hey dachay2tnr, If I mix down to a Wave or MP3 file. Than burn to .cda. In the end is there a difference whether I started with .wave or .mp3? Do they get crushed (for lack of better word) the same when when made into .cda?
 
Albertm said:
In the end it will be a .cda file ont the CD.

Hey dachay2tnr, If I mix down to a Wave or MP3 file. Than burn to .cda. In the end is there a difference whether I started with .wave or .mp3? Do they get crushed (for lack of better word) the same when when made into .cda?
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Actually it gets "crushed" when you mix down to an mp3.

Specifically an mp3 has lower audio quality than a wave or an audio CD. When you burn to an audio CD, even though the final product will be still 16 bits and 44.1 sample rate, you will not gain back what you lost when you created the mp3.

If the destination is a CD, start with a wave file.

BTW, .cda is simply the way a computer reads a "song" on an audio CD. To my knowledge, there is no such thing as a .cda computer file. In other words the computer can't do anything with it - other than play it, same as a CD player would. When you extract/rip a song from a CD to the computer, it will become a wave file for the computer (although many ripping programs can also rip to other formats, such as mp3 or wma etc.).

If you want to test it, try "moving" a .cda file from a CD to your computer.
 
i think thats what I tried to mean. When its burned to CD it becomes a .cda file. Not when on computer. Thanks for info. I have been creating mp3's than burning. I will do from .wave from now on.
 
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