Free album

vuvuzela

Gizeh records - ambient / neoclassical / orchestral / drone.
http://www.gizehstore.com/products/508554-2013-sampler gets you their latest 8 track sampler for free. I'm a big fan of their output and have bought most of their releases.

Badmintonplayer

Would like to Download this to a CD, is this possible?

From there e mail re download I can select differant formats, ALAC/FLAC/MP3-320/MP3-VBR/AAC256, which do I use to download to a CD?

jayme1

Badmintonplayer wrote: »

Would like to Download this to a CD, is this possible?

From there e mail re download I can select differant formats, ALAC/FLAC/MP3-320/MP3-VBR/AAC256, which do I use to download to a CD?

yep you can burn a CD although we need to know what music program you normally use to tell you how to.

as for the formats ALAC and FLAC are lossless music files (ie they are the same quality you would find on a CD) therefore you should download one of those, the other MP3 and AAC are lossy files and sound is lost when they are created.
Which you download depends, ALAC is more geared to iTunes although it can be played by VLC and winamp (with the essentials plugin) but not by Windows Media Player
FLAC can be played by VLC and winamp, but not by iTunes and WMP.

So if you use iTunes download ALAC add the files to iTunes and create a new Playlist with the files in it (order it by filename) then right click on the playlist name and select 'Burn to disc'

Badmintonplayer

Jayme,
Never done this before, so please could you give me good simple instructions.
When I rip/burn CD's I use Windows Media Player version 11
Hope you can help so I can learn!

-TangleFoot-

Badmintonplayer wrote: »

When I rip/burn CD's I use Windows Media Player version 11

Windows XP? That being the case, MP3 is pretty much your only option here. If you want to work with FLAC, ALAC or AAC you'll have to install something else.

Badmintonplayer

OK, yes I use XP.
Have only in the past used WMP to Rip/Burn CD's
So how do I make a CD if I use MP3 to Download this?

-TangleFoot-

Badmintonplayer wrote: »

So how do I make a CD if I use MP3 to Download this?

My previous post has a link in it.

Badmintonplayer

Seen the link
But
1 Do I use MP3-320 or MP3-VBR to download or does it not matter.

2 After doing this how do I get the MP3 file into WMP?
Do I select it & then RIP it?

Sorry about the basic questions

-TangleFoot-

Badmintonplayer wrote: »

But...

1. Shouldn't matter; if in doubt, choose 320 (Kbps CBR).
2. If zipped, extract to My Music and the tracks should be added to your WMP library automatically.

Badmintonplayer

OK, downloaded file as MP3-320, Unzipped/Did not go onto WMP Version 11 but I manually added all files.
Selected Burn & dragged the Tracks into the Burn area of WMP.
Inserted blank CD
CD Rejected
Tried again with another blank CD
Rejected
Went into Burn/More Options/File Type
Checked MP3
Went into Burn/More Options/Checked Convert to 32Kbps

Still rejects

Any ideas of problems/solution?

-TangleFoot-

Badmintonplayer wrote: »

Any ideas of problems/solution?

1. Make sure you're Burning to Audio CD rather than Ripping.
2. Determine ID3 version* with MP3Tag or similar.

*WMP can't read ID3 v2.4