Re: Available space on a CD

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In Reply to: Re: Available space on a CD posted by Bob Smith on August 19, 2001 at 09:27:24:

A CD player (as opposed to the CDROM in your computer) will not play MP3 format. In fact, you will need for recording in a music CD format a wave file that is stereo, 44.1khz wav.
If your burner is only capable of recording 74 min CD's, putting an 80 min CD is not going to get you those extra 6 mins.
I suggest to reduce the coaster production (non playable CD's), do these things when recording:
Turn off EVERYTHING on your computer you can live without, esp virus scanners, as well as most of that junk in the systray.
Mo' RAM is mo' better. I went to a near 100% success rate when I went from 128 Mb Ram to 256 Mb.
Get a new hard drive just for working your sound files. I added a 30 Gig Western Digital drive. 20-40 Gigs is probably OK.
You can do a great job with a freeware called Goldwave. www.goldwave.com
Well, it is shareware, but works without paying... so that makes it free.
All you need is a cable that has RCA plugs on one end, coming to a 1/8" stereo plug on the other, to go into the Line In jack on your sound card.
The Goldwave program has a pop/click filter to remove the Rice Krispies, as well as parametric and graphic EQ, fade in / fade out, easy trimming of each end of the file. If you get the Blade download (or Lame) at the same time, same place, you will be able to encode as MP3's, too. But that is not needed for making music CD's playable on a regular CD player.
Once you have recorded each track as a wav (set it to STEREO even if the old 78 was a mono, that is needed to make a music CD), you can then use Adaptec or other CD burning software to make your music CD.
With a little practice, you will soon be making your archival copies of those irreplacable 78's and LP's in little more time than it takes to play them.

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Topic - Available space on a CD - Bob Smith 06:20:23 08/19/01 (5)

Re: Available space on a CD - RBP 06:43:09 08/19/01 (4)

Re: Available space on a CD - Bob Smith 09:27:24 08/19/01 (3)

Re: Available space on a CD - Paul C. 17:29:13 08/21/01 (2)

Re: Available space on a CD - Bob Smith 00:01:30 08/23/01 (1)

your DVD player will not play mp3s on a CD.... - brew 20:39:20 10/04/01 (0)

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Re: Available space on a CD - Paul C. 17:29:13 08/21/01 (2)

Re: Available space on a CD - Bob Smith 00:01:30 08/23/01 (1)

your DVD player will not play mp3s on a CD.... - brew 20:39:20 10/04/01 (0)

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