Transporting music from one PC to another without CD-RW

[pablo]

Hello, I know.. I'm cheap...
Well, I just made up like 8 songs and they are almost ready to go! I'm just adding some echo in some parts or reverdb, stuff like that on cool edit...
Now I'm just thinking about how can I get this songs to my cousin's PC when I'm going to burn it?? I don't have a CD-RW so, I thought about sending the Wavs over internet, but they are more than 50 Mbs each x 8 Songs that's 400 Mbs... that's a lot and he has a slow connection...
SO I was thinking about compress the into 196 kbps Mp3s and send them as mp3... still better than 128 kbps....
I've noticed that when I make music CDs to be played on just any discman from mp3s they go WAY DOWN in sound quality... I don't want this to happen... is there any other way to get better quality from mp3s??
They sound pretty good at mp3 in my PC, but I don't know I burn them and they are not as good...
Also I bought a pack of 5 Fiji Recordables CDs that said "For Audio recordings" but when I got to my house they said they were meant to be used in stand-alone units will I have any problems with that?? I'm using just a cheap CD burner, unbranded... I will be loosing quality is there any way to avoid it??

Thanks a lot for reading!

 

[warlock]

ANY mp3 compression will cause loss of quality. Take your HDD out of your PC and hook it up to the other PC where you want to burn the CDs.

Keijo

 

[Oysterman]

Some options

If you want high quality MP3, try the tools from Opticom (http://www.opticom.de/), quality can't get any higher than that. There's also a totally zero-loss way to compress WAV files, with Monkey's Audio (http://www.monkeysaudio.com/) - depending on the actual file, you could cut it back to half the size or even less. But since you say your cousin has a modem connection, 200 MB is too much as well, right?

If you can have your and your cousin's computers in the same room, I suggest buying two cheap Ethernet adapters (should be able to fetch them for $10 a piece) and a sufficient cable (also comes cheap) between the cards, to set up a network with two computers. If you haven't done that before, you might rip a few hairs trying to get it to work, but you'll eventually get the hang of it.

Or, you could borrow your cousin's CDRW unit.

I don't think you will have any problems with the media you bought. Just burn them at slow speed (if you're patient enough, slowest possible), and it SHOULD burn well. But due to the enigmatic nature of computers, everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

 

[pablo]

I think my Wavs are in 24 Bit quiality, and I just read something in this post about dithering before burning a CD... Do I need to do that?? How can I do that?? is there a software for that?? I use cool edit pro, and I'm right now at school and don't have the program with me, but I think I haven't seen that transformation option in there...

By the way, I have done the unplug-the-HD thing before, but right now I have the Nimba Virus, and HAven't been able to get rid of it!! I downloaded some new tool from the producers of Norton Antivirus made only to get rid of the worm, but still the same... I guess I'm going out of topic... Any way, I don't want to spread the virus

Thanks for the links! I will take a look at those sofwares!!

 

[Oysterman]

I think my Wavs are in 24 Bit quiality, and I just read something in this post about dithering before burning a CD... Do I need to do that?? How can I do that?? is there a software for that?? I use cool edit pro, and I'm right now at school and don't have the program with me, but I think I haven't seen that transformation option in there...

Yes, dithering is necessary, since CD audio is in 16 bit/44.1 kHz format. I'm not familiar with Cool Edit Pro, but it would seem strange if it doesn't have a dithering option (it would be a flaw, no?!). If you don't find any, there is another piece of software which I recommend for editing and converting wave files to and from many formats, namely GoldWave (www.goldwave.com). It's way cheaper than SoundForge (there is no limit in GW that forces you to pay for it unless you think it's worth it, just an annoying reminder), and is very good at what it does.